http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/2756188/Tonys-got-all-of-us-on-Moggadon.html
From BILL LECKIE
The Scottish Sun
03/12/2009
WHEN the fans start losing interest, it's time for the board to take notice.
When those fans self-style themselves as the greatest in all the world? When they love to boast in song that over and over, they will follow you?
So here sit Celtic. Not even halfway through the season, but already not good enough for three of the five competitions they entered.
Playing to a half-empty, half-hearted Parkhead. Again.
The atmosphere as their Europa League slog ended in inevitable failure was so flat that even when they were playing well, the only singing was from a little knot away up high in the Lisbon Lions Stand.
And it does them no credit that they seemed more interested in boasts about joining the IRA than in supporting their team.
You looked around this massive arena and saw an empty seat for every one taken up, a join-the-dots of faces looking fed-up and frozen.
Here and there, a few right-on punters half-heartedly waved their Palestinian flags at the little cluster of visiting Israeli fans.
Even when You'll Never Walk Alone came on the tannoy at the start of each half, there was no knee-jerk grabbing of every scarf to raise it high and take the rafters even higher. The attitude seemed to be: Do we HAVE to?
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