BBC pundit conjures up incredible Anyone But Ange reasoning for his Manager of the Year call

Richard Foster has tied himself in knots trying to explain why Ange Postecoglou shouldn’t be Manager of the Year. 

With the season winding down the end of season awards are in full flow with daily nominations and debates launched. 

There are a variety of candidates for the awards but according to the Partick Thistle defender the real prize guy is Robbie Neilson at Hearts. 

Taking Hearts into the top flight, finishing third and reaching the Scottish Cup Final is very commendable but the job that Postecoglou has done so far swamps anything anywhere else. 

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While Neilson was in charge of Hearts last season with his own backroom team to prepare with during pre-season Pstecoglou landed in Scotland from a different continent, inheriting four or five players and having to rebuild a team almost from scratch. 

Three defeats in the first six SPFL matches highlighted the task that the former Yokohama Marinos faced, with four matches left to play his side are six points clear and on course for an unexpected title success. 

Picking up on Foster’s appearance on PLZ Soccer, Football Scotland reports the former Aberdeen defender saying: 

I’d probably go for Robbie, just because of how big the transformation has been. They were the promoted team and I know Hearts are a big club, but I think he’s done a fantastic job. 

Ange Postecoglou has done a fantastic job, but he’s at Celtic and they are expected to win leagues and cups. 

Asked if he expected Celtic to win anything this season Forster admitted: 

Probably not, no but he doesn’t have budget restrictions like Dick Campbell does. I suppose neither does Robbie, to an extent, but just to be different from the lads, I’d go for him. 

Postecoglou won’t be losing any sleep over the opinion of Foster but with regular slots on BBC and elsewhere in the media he seems incapable of recognising the scale and magnitude of the job the Celtic boss has overseen. 

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