Chris Sutton has called out Ally McCoist for following the lead of some English pundits that have lumped the two Glasgow sides together in their Champions League failures.
Both clubs are in bottom place in their group without a win between them but there the likeness ends.
Football is about fine margins, Celtic could well have won both matches against Shakhtar Donetsk, especially if they had an outstanding talent like Mykhaylo Mudryk who scored home and away against the hoops.
In their three defeats Celtic were very much in the game, after 50 minutes in each match they were level with supporters able to see progress and evolution even if the final outcome was the same as the 4-1 defeats they were suffering home and away to Sparta Prague under Neil Lennon two years ago.
TalkSPORT is usually the source of much of the banding together and bashing. Anyone taking a look will realise that Celtic don’t have a 1-19 goal difference topped by the humiliation of a 7-1 home defeat from a mid-table EPL side.
In the Daily Record Sutton explains:
Listen, I’m not running around throwing flowers at Celtic because, at the end of the day, they will finish bottom of Group F. They have come up short. Football is a results business and, if you don’t get them, it is right that performances are scrutinised and displays analysed.
That’s the problem. I don’t see much analysis. People are generalising Scottish football and just lumping results all into one bracket. Wrong. Coming out with phrases like disaster and humiliating for all. It is lazy and it is stupid. I’m hearing pundits south of the border making statements about the Scottish game being fourth tier and it’s just plain ignorance. If that wasn’t bad enough, my old pal Ally McCost agreed with one of them this week. Are you joking, Ally?
Postecoglou is trying to implement a style and adopt a positive approach that can make Celtic better in Europe now and the future. He said they were going to try and play their way and they have done so.
Fair enough, they are out, but you cannot seriously tell me they have been outclassed, or out of their depth, or been cannon fodder? Could you look at any of the five performances that Postecoglou’s team have put up and called them a disaster? Or a nightmare?
If you do, if you match them up and lazily stick them in the same basket with Rangers’ weak performance in Amsterdam, or lack of ambition at Anfield, or capitulation at home to Liverpool or Motherwell losing to Sligo, Dundee United’s seven in Alkmaar, you either didn’t watch the games or you don’t have the first clue about football.
Celtic conclude this season’s Champions League campaign away to Real Madrid on Wednesday.
chris tells you how it is but this time can’t agree celtic just not good enough in the cl 2 points out of 15 likley next week 2 points out 18 terrible stats thats not progress.
Sorry? when was the last time that we were in the Champions League ? 5 years ago wasn’t it ? So .. A pot 4 team finishes in fourth and everyone loses their mind? Were we expected to beat Real or Leipzig ? Really ? so we competed and equalled the 3rd pot team .. 2 draws and if we had have been more clinical maybe one of those at least would have been a win. These comments “not good enough” we have players who have NEVER played at this level before! Now they know that they MUST be that 1 second sharper , MUST be more composed etc .. Lets win this league get back in next season and THEN we can make a judgement on whether they are progressing in the right way!
Spot on Paul Mac.
Some of our support are almost as bad as the currants with the ‘Superiority’, ‘Exceptionalism’, nonsense just because we are Celtic.
Not good enough verdict with no recognition of the positives you’ve so clearly outlined.
You’re right in your assessment. Judge us next season.
People listen to pundits for expert “honest” opinions on what they see. CELTIC supporters and some others said CELTIC could and should have been ahead at halftime against Real Madrid. Mr McCoist said unfortunately the game lasts for 90 minutes, Mr McCoist was correct but when “the rangers” were absolutely trounced by Liverpool he was so “proud” of them wait for it….in the first half… very honest eh…then he told the public watching and listening how far this club has come in the last ten years…. But as he is honest as they come he made no mention of the club being in a European final “last year” a wee saying for the so called experts… say what you see not what you want it to be….
It suits Absholutely Fat Shally and the meedja to lump us together with sevco in the same way that they perpetuate the OF myth, hanging on to our coat talis like desperate parasites, unable to make it on their own.
We aren’t half of anything and don’t want anything to do with the zombies.
Just a pity the board don’t see it the same way.
Go on SUTTON ma bhoy tell these thick balloons that haven’t got one clue about the beautiful game , they just sit on there FAT ARSES MUNCHIN PIES ? your right it’s about the attitude and the way you approach the match losing and playing at your best is the best you can do, we both finished last but Celtic gave a far better account of themselves overall ? % true ??????????????????????