Wilfried Nancy OUT! / Martin O'Neill IN - REACTION!
20 Minute Tims
James Flynn
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the ad free release of episode #458 of TMT
We react to a crazy day that saw
•Wilfried Nancy sacked after 8 games
•Martin O'Neill return to manage the rest of the season
•Where did it go wrong for Nancy?
•What's next for Celtic?
and much more
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of 20 Minute Tim's flagship podcast on this episode. |
| 0:04.0 | Myself, Stephen and Melly get to the cameras and microphones immediately after Wilfred |
| 0:08.1 | Nancy's sacking to react to that event. |
| 0:11.8 | Shortly after we finished recording this episode, Martin Lerich was announced as the Celtic |
| 0:15.9 | manager until the end of the season. Catch our reactions to that particular piece of |
| 0:20.0 | news at the end of this season, catch our reactions to that particular piece of news at the end of this |
| 0:21.5 | podcast. |
| 0:41.1 | Live reaction to Wilfred Nancy being fired. |
| 0:47.2 | Just want to say, first of all, thank you to Glasgow Celtic for timing your firing before podcast recordings. |
| 0:48.4 | We can really appreciate that. |
| 0:50.3 | This is the flagship podcast as well. |
| 1:12.7 | This will be going out as the flagship with the flagship with Rose Jamie, joined by Stephen and Melly. And Melly, I'm just going to come to you for your initial thoughts, right into it. Yeah, I'm shocked. Again, we sat here 70 days ago and Brendan Rogers resigned. It had to happen, to be honest. It wasn't working. It was a disaster. And after the game on Saturday, I thought we'd have heard by now but even getting to today I just didn't think it would happen but it has happened |
| 1:17.2 | and you know what it's a bit of relief of course I feel for him as a human being but he was |
| 1:22.8 | doing a terrible job and it wasn't working out so he just had to go Stephen oh and by the |
| 1:27.4 | way also double delight in that Tisdale's went. Oh yeah, I'm sure we'll get to that. Get to the various details of it, I'm sure. But yeah, my overriding feeling today is it's just, it's a very, very sad day. I'm very, very sad. I took the Christmas tree, just a little bit of early January humour there for you. |
| 1:47.1 | Lighten the mood a little bit. |
| 1:48.8 | Oh, wow, I, how to even take it all in. |
| 1:51.5 | So I think, as Melis said, it was inevitable, wasn't it? |
| 1:55.1 | I think we'd gotten to a point now where it was completely and utterly untenable. |
| 1:59.5 | It was a situation that even the high |
| 2:02.4 | watermark of the Nancy era was underwhelmed but choosing to be cautiously optimistic about it. |
| 2:09.6 | That was as high as any enthusiasm got for it the entire way through. We have been very |
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