It seems that football isn’t much of a priority for BBC Scotland reporters as they chase up news lines from media conferences.
On Tuesday Kheredine Idessane was in Warsaw looking for soundbites from Ange Postecoglou on the death of the head of the Commonwealth. The Celtic manager was focussed on getting his team prepared for a game of football against the champions of Ukraine.
Given the opportunity to discuss football matters today Tyrone Smith from BBC Scotland first asked Postecoglou his thoughts on a UEFA enquiry. Clearly frustrated the Celtic boss straight batted his answer.
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Yeah, they’re opening an investigation, so…I’m not really sure what you expect me to say to that. If there’s an investigation, there’s an investigation, and then we’ll wait until that unfolds.
Asked about fan related issues taking attention away from an impressive performance the Celtic boss was equally dismissive.
Well, it depends on what you are reading or what you are listening to. My focus is on us as a football club, and the performance was really strong at the highest level of competition.
We’ve still got some growth to do as a football team in terms of playing at that level on a consistent basis. I was encouraged by our progress but also know that we need to keep improving in those areas. We’ll keep representing our football club in the best possible way.
The St Mirren match is followed by a royal funeral and three Scotland fixtures which should see the news focus blow over.
Celtic return to action on October 1 against Motherwell with a frantic schedule of matches through until November 12 that covers four Champions League fixtures before the break for the World Cup Finals in Qatar.
Keep the focus on Celtic and our fans and it takes the heat away from the CRISIS at sevco.
All those shenanigans at ibrox with the manager not picking the players he bought,skelping after skelping and King lurching in the background.
Not a goal scored in 270 minutes but 11 conceded and the above issues mentioned,how come we ain’t seen a broken badge or crest yet .
A Celtic fan of 50 years plus I must admit I not a great fan of our self apoonnted mouth piece ‘The Greem Brigade”. Dont get me wrong I am no “Sticky” and stood in the jungle for many years. However on this point I am with them, we should display banners against hereditary monarchies who are openly sectarian and racist every week and stick to the man. If we are clever about it we have a platform to highlight the terrible wrongs.