He’l end up doo-lally- concerned Daily Mail reporter has warning for Ange

Gary Keown has happily speculated that Ange Postecoglou’s recent comments suggest that he could be on his way out of Celtic with Everton a possible escape route.

A review of the Celtic manager’s career would suggest that moving to a club that is close to devouring a manager a year is highly unlikely. The experiences of Rafa Benitez, Sam Allardyce, Carlo Ancelotti, Marco Silva, Ronald Koeman and Roberto Martinez are a major red flag over the blue half of Merseyside.

Friday’s media conference discussing VAR in a very matter of fact manner seems to have spooked many media outlets who instantly went with tales of a rant, lashing out and hitting out when the delivery was the exact opposite.

After arriving to derision and claims that he’d be gone by Christmas Postecoglou has dominated Scottish football and is now facing his third adversary in the Ibrox dug out.

It is a remarkable story of success but one that some people are very uncomfortable with. Towards the end of a column in the Daily Mail full of sniping at Celtic and the club’s supporters Keown writes:

Yet, those conspiracy theories continue. Postecoglou would be well advised to steer clear, but there will be punters out there delighted to see him take up the cudgels on behalf of the club — the cause — and eager for him to go even further.

They see this spikier version of the boss as their white knight leading the troops into the fray, his grumblings and his asides as a sign that he gets it. Either way, though, the  emergence of Ange The Irritable carries ominous portents. If  Postecoglou really is beginning to listen to those who would tell you that there are booby-traps placed for Celtic round every corner by Scottish football’s illuminati, he’ll end up doo-lally.

Rather than fall back on the ‘conspiracy theory’ perhaps Keown could explain why the league leaders have had five penalties awarded against them yet the side in second place have yet to concede a single penalty.

Yesterday, for the fourth time this season Nick Walsh refereed Celtic. In his day job he is a PE teacher at the partner school on Michael Beale’s club, in daily contact with future players.

Walsh could easily be given matches away from Glasgow to referee in but it seems that the SFA are content with a possible conflict of interest that wouldn’t be allowed in England where referees are kept away from fixtures involving a club that they have any association with.