Scott Brown has joined in the defence of Celtic’s training trip to Dubai, justifying the images of him sitting poolside chatting to Neil Lennon with drinks.
It seems that everyone inside the club is on a mission to justify the ‘hard work’ that went on during the trip despite almost unanimous criticism from supporters.
Flying through various time zones during a global pandemic isn’t the wisest move, when you are trailing 19 points behind and on the back of a defeat in the Glasgow Derby it becomes impossible to defend.
Even with one positive test, 13 players self isolating and with the manager and his assistant unable to work as normal there seems to be no recognition within Celtic that someone made a wrong call.
Brown missed last night’s match alongside a dozen of his team-mates but managed to speak to The Sun to justify a week that no Celtic fan will ever forget.
Everyone is going to question everything – that’s the modern-day era. Everyone has a say in everything we do these days.
We got the okay from the government and we made sure we followed the guidelines from there. We went out and worked hard on training – that’s what the whole thing was for us. People don’t see our training daily or see how hard we worked.
Sometimes you’re allowed to sit on the sunbeds and have some down-time as well. What we do away from the cameras in training is for us to benefit in games. As you’ve seen in the last three or four seasons, we’ve come back from Dubai and done really well because we work extremely hard.
It’s all about the preparation for the next five or six months of the season. The manager’s philosophy, which he puts on to us, is how we can work in different ways and different shapes. We worked on that all week and that’s what Dubai has been for us in the last three or four seasons now.
Brown joins John Kennedy, Gavin Strachan and Neil Lennon in justifying the trip, CEO Peter Lawwell has yet to speak in public.
CLICK HERE for Celtic’s statement defending the trip to Dubai