Fifteen minutes after Celtic issued the news of Brendan Rodgers' shock resignation via a perfunctory five-paragraph, 134-word statement, the howitzer landed, courtesy of Dermot Desmond, with whiskers twitching in apparent fury.
In 551-words, major shareholder Desmond eviscerated his old chum.
The man he persuaded to join the club when Rangers were getting uppity in 2016 and needed putting back in a box. And the man he again turned to after Ange Postecoglou left for Tottenham in the summer of 2023.
Such was the ferocity of Desmond's takedown, the jaw-dropping return of Martin O'Neill was almost an after-thought.
Twenty years after his exit from the club, and after much of his recent life was given over to an unending circuit of public speaking engagements and the playing of all his old hits at Celtic, O'Neill is back in the dugout.
For now - and maybe for a while. Based on things he has said recently, O'Neill has been keen to get another job. He'll see this one as the ultimate, a gift from the Celtic Gods, a return to the place where he experienced such glory and adulation.
Will he give it up easily? You wouldn't have thought so. Celtic might well make a call to sound out Postecoglou, but O'Neill will serve as a balm for the moment.
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