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THIS IS CELTIC now: Toxicity, chaos and a club at war with itself ... and O'Neill should have seen it all coming

Martin O'Neill is perfectly entitled to his view that pulling on a balaclava, throwing tennis balls at Dermot Desmond at St Andrews is not what Celtic is about.
THIS IS CELTIC now: Toxicity, chaos and a club at war with itself ... and O'Neill should have seen it all coming

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