Graeme Murty has turned to self-pity as he tries to deflect attention away from his mulriple failings as Sevco manager.
It is a tactic that Mark Warburton and Ronny Deila both used as their terms in management came to an end.
When you start discussing your own suffering and the knock on effect with your family there is no way back- especially for bosses that are more comfortable in a media conference than in the heat of a football dressing room.
On Friday Murty was yapping away about how if he could survive the last week he could cope with anything, speaking to the Sunday papers he took things a step or two further
“Has there been a moment when I felt like chucking it, bout five minutes after the game finished,” he told the Sunday Mail.
“Given the way it had gone, it was not what I envisaged.
“It was supposed to play out as a rip-roaring semi-final and we were going to come out on top but I had to take the emotion out of it and not make a knee-jerk reaction.
“Candidly, it would be the easy way out for me to jack it in.
“I’ve been asked to take the club forward to the end of the season and I’ll continue to do that until I’m removed. I don’t want to take the easy way out.”
If Murty thought that the last seven days were tough he should brace himself for the next week if he fails to get a win over Hearts at Ibrox.
Returning to the sanctuary of development players, bibs and cones for teenage training exercises will never be more appealing if he steers Sevco to their eight home defeat of the season today.
