The truth that Nancy is now the primary Celtic supervisor in historical past to lose his first two video games. The truth that Thursday was solely the second time in historical past that Celtic conceded three first-half targets at residence in Europe.

The uneasy fact that Liam Scales’ personal purpose was the earliest concession in a European sport at Celtic in additional than a decade.

These aren’t the type of information that Nancy got here right here to set. The brutal realities of life as a Celtic supervisor have descended on his head in double-quick time.

The crumbs of consolation would not feed a sparrow proper now. They quantity to Celtic not having caved in and conceded extra targets within the second half towards Roma. Nancy did his greatest to feast on that within the aftermath.

Has psychological harm been achieved this previous week? You argue that it has. Do Celtic look confused on the pitch? Sure, once more. Will Nancy return to fundamentals on Sunday? Unlikely. Are Celtic followers extra anxious now in regards to the League Cup remaining than they have been slightly over per week in the past? Within the case of some or many, undoubtedly.

Nancy was subjected to an terrible lot of rubbish within the wake of Tynecastle, as if his ways board was an affront to soccer, as if his completely regular trainers made him any much less able to doing his job.

The one fact about managing Celtic, or every other workforce with excessive calls for, is that, in case you are a successful supervisor, you may flip up in a tutu. No person would care. If something, it could spark a development – should you’re successful.

Now that he is off to a shedding begin, the doubt is on the market, the sensation that perhaps Celtic ought to have caught with O’Neill for some time longer or that, maybe, it was a bit reckless to present management of the workforce to a supervisor with little expertise and no publicity to the type of suffocating warmth of a Glasgow large.

Once more, it isn’t simply the losses that is perhaps making some Celtic followers gulp. It is the speedy reimagining of O’Neill’s workforce and the disintegration of the organisation that had been created.

We are able to make an excessive amount of of what O’Neill achieved – his facet weren’t at all times simple on the attention in his temporary second spell – however they received all bar one sport. They toiled badly at occasions, however they bought the job achieved, they triumphed on the highway in Europe, which is one thing Celtic not often do.

Nancy has gone to a few on the again, and with three left-footers, which is one thing that Derek McInnes gorged on at Tynecastle. He has tried to reinvent a left winger, Yang Hyun-Jun, right into a proper wing-back – and it hasn’t labored. He is tried to recast Sebastian Tounekti, a left winger, right into a left wing-back. That hasn’t labored both.

Nancy would not appear to suppose that these modifications are an enormous deal, however the manner of his workforce suggests in any other case. Towards Roma, and at occasions towards Hearts, they seemed like a ship that is been taken off track resulting from uneven waters.