BE PREPARED. That’s the Scouts’ motto devised by Robert Baden-Powell over a century ago. Go further back and United States founding father Benjamin Franklin was equally frank in his assessment that “failing to prepare is preparing to fail”.
When Celtic lost Brendan Rodgers to Leicester City midway through the 2018/19 season, you might say the Parkhead hierarchy lived up to one of those slogans. The reappointment of Neil Lennon in the immediate aftermath of Rodgers’ flight in the night, the whole offering him the job on a permanent basis in the showers after that season’s Scottish Cup Final triumph, all had an air of hastiness; it didn’t feel well-thought-through and reasoned. Celtic had not prepared for this eventuality.
