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Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly and as with every EFL pod, something happens to get in the way.

This time it's Celtic and Brendan Rogers who resigned last night. Welcome back Martin O'Neill. That's fun. The Celtics board statement is quite the way. This time it's Celtic and Brendan Rogers, who resigned last night.

Welcome back Martin O'Neill, that's fun. The Celtics board statement is quite the read. We'll discuss that first. And then to the championship and rejoice. The end of Dejon Transiri at Sheffield Wednesday, administration and a points deduction, and a highly likely relegation isn't a reason to celebrate, but they can build again. and perhaps take inspiration from Coventry who've battled back from their own troubles and find themselves top of the league, Frank Lampard flying. How are Millwall third and can they sustain it? Last season's relegated clubs all failing to use their parachutes well, I mean the league looks open while at the bottom what's happening at Norwich. It's League 1 manager sacking season, Noel Hunt at Reading and Darren Ferguson at Peterborough. And then in League 2, 13th placed Cambridge, just getting positioned to time their run

and embarrass those Not the Top 20 frauds. All that plus your questions. And that's today's

Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today. From Not the Top 20, George Ellick Ehrlich welcome great to be called a fraud at

806 in the morning um morning max i suppose you had us 18th and we're 13 so in many ways that might

be a difference about a point that i put in the intro you have my apologies uh sandy rogeradjana hello

good morning and welcome ben fisher hi next let's start with celtic uh and we do You have my apologies. Sani Ridger-Radjana, hello. Good morning.

And welcome Ben Fisher. Hi, Max. Let's start with Celtic, and we do plan to go to the jazz bar on Thursday and catch up with you and Murray. George, you sent us this tweet from Barry Anderson, a journalist of the Scotsman, who just wrote Celtics manager resigns. The club chief publicly savages him. the standing manager says hearts can win the league,

while Aberdeen appoint a penguin stealing sports director who spent time in jail and modelled for Armani. That's enough for today. They'll never beat Scottish football. Well, we'll do the Aberdeen bit on Thursday as well. But the Celtic statement, so Brennan Rogers resigned and he's been talking a lot about, you know, not getting the backing, certainly in the transfer market and I'll read part of the statement. So Brennan Rogers resigned and he's been talking a lot about, you know, not getting the backing, certainly in the transfer market. And I'll read part of the statement. It's not all

of it. It's quite a bit. But it says, we met with Brendan regularly, including in December last year and

at the start of the summer with the regular dialogue in between to discuss and agree our collective

strategy, priorities and approach. every player signed and every player

sold during his tenure, was done so with Brendan's full knowledge, approval and endorsement.

Any insinuation otherwise is absolutely false. His later public statements about transfers and

club operations came entirely out of the blue. At no point prior to those remarks that he raised

any such concerns with me, Michael, or any member

of the board or executive team. In reality, he was given final say over all football matters

and was consistently backed in the recruitment process, including record investment in players

he personally identified and approved. When his comments were made publicly, I sought to address

them directly. Brendan and I met for over three

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