The Cynic Weekly – 18.12.2025
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Gall is joined by Stuart and Barry as they sit down and discuss the current state of play at Celtic.
We discuss Wilfried Nancy at Celtic and if he is already in an untenable situation. We discuss the stepping down of Peter Lawwell and the communication from the board.
We then discuss were the club are headed and what we can do as a support. We finish by looking ahead to the Aberdeen game.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly. I'm your host, Christopher Galaher. It's December. It's the 18th of |
| 0:30.7 | December, 2025. The last Cynic Weekly of the year, actually, the more I think about it. That's just game to me. So the last cynic weekly of the year, I'm delighted to say, you wanted to say, like he's desperate to say something, Stuart, go. The nightmare before Christmas. Oh, okay. It's not bad, is it? It's not great. It is what it is, though. It is. That's the Dilsatones of Stuart. I doggin. Hello, Stuart. How are you? I got soaked in some very heavy rain on the way here. And we're about you to talk about maybe the worst period of time in the club's modern history. So I am great. Good. I'm going forward to it. You look for the festive cheer. |
| 1:12.5 | You look great. You look nice and healthy. |
| 1:14.6 | I don't know. We've got |
| 1:16.6 | a health at least, that's all. |
| 1:18.0 | A good friend, Barry Galaher is also here. |
| 1:20.4 | Barry, how are you, sir? |
| 1:21.8 | Very well. All things considering. |
| 1:24.4 | Yep, Merry Christmas to everyone. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm looking forward to dissecting the binfire that is our football club The wind fire that is our football club |
| 1:33.3 | Indeed, we're going to talk about the game |
| 1:35.8 | Yesterday, we'll probably briefly touch on the League Cup final as well |
| 1:40.0 | We'll talk about the manager, we'll talk about the board, we'll talk about Peter Lawwell, and then we'll cover the Aberdeen game. |
| 1:48.1 | I don't quite know how we'll cover it. We'll talk about what we think might happen, but yeah, so we'll probably finish on that. |
| 1:54.9 | Another defeat. Okay, look, look at back at the game. |
| 2:01.7 | Barry was at the game, so we'll certainly get your perspective and point of view on it. |
| 2:06.3 | Myself and Stuart, we watched it on TV, so we can talk about that. |
| 2:11.0 | But the opening, we've got some questions from subscribers and listeners to the show. |
| 2:15.7 | We will have an opening question. The opening question is as simple as this. |
| 2:21.4 | Is Wilfred Nancy's position untenable? And I'd like a why as well from both of you. We'll start with you, Barry. |
| 2:29.6 | Yes, I think it is. I don't think there's any way back. |
| 2:37.4 | I think that with the reports that are coming out tonight, |
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