Often derided as an anachronism, football phone-ins remain an essential part of Scottish football culture and, even in the age of social media, capture the rapture and despair of fandom better than almost any other format.

A place where, after a game like Tuesday's, Celtic fans can go to lick their wounds and Rangers fans can go to drink their salty tears.  And vice versa when the shoe is on the other foot.

Everybody's happy...or unhappy as the case may be.

Wednesday's Clyde 1 Superscoreboard show was opened by a Celtic fan called Stevie from Bishopbriggs and it's fair to say he had a few things he wanted to get off his chest.

Neil Lennon, Dermot Desmond and Peter Lawwall all felt the rat-a-tat-tat of Stevie's verbal machine gun and it was spectacular.

He said: "I'm going to tell you what I personally think. I came on here before when Neil Lennon was interim manager. I told you he wasn't going to be a Celtic manager, I told you he wasn't going to take the club further in Europe. I then said to yourselves we must give him a chance.


"Watching him last night I can tell you now that Neil Lennon is not the manager for Celtic.

"I watched it and why he stuck with your man at left-back when he's not a left-back...the whole stadium was talking about it and he wouldn't do anything about it!

"I don't know where he goes and regarding this next tie in the Europa League, I'm sorry lads, I can't see them qualifying and it wouldn't surprise me if they get put out and say they will concentrate on the league.

"Peter Lawwell and Dermot Desmond have to look and ask themselves if they want to go further in Europe. If they do they have to look at the management.

Asked how he was feeling at the final whistle, Steve responded: "It wasn't the full-time whistle boys, it was when Celtic scored and you're jumping and going 'Yes, we are going through.' then five minutes later BANG. They score and they are going through.

"And Scott Brown. That penalty kick. That was absolutely suicidal. Suicidal.

"A couple of the guys beside me were saying they couldn't believe Brown was taken off. I said 'I will tell you why he was taken off, Celtic are going out of the champions league boys. If he leaves Scott Brown on until the end  what do you think this stadium is going to do? They are going to boo Scott Brown.'

"And I couldn't believe it. Honestly."

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