It's an undeniable fact Brendan Rodgers was the man in the dugout for Celtic's latest Champions League disaster during the 6-0 beating at the hands of Atletico Madrid.
But it feels foolish to blame the Irishman for the trials and tribulations of a club who have been rendered incapable of laying a glove in this tournament since the days Rodgers was still at Swansea, half of the current first team were playing youth football and the vote for Scottish Independence was still to be ratified.
Ange Postecoglou suffered his own tales of woe and is now the darling of the English Premier League after revolutionising Tottenham.
Rounding on the manager feels like a cop out. Yes, there were a host of abject displays on the pitch but that has been a familiar story before Diego Simeone's side ran roughshod over 10 overmatched men once Daizen Maeda was given his marching orders, a decision which left Rodgers raging.