Mutual respect- Beale’s no-mark assistant clings on to Celtic credibility

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Damian Matthew claims that there is a mutual respect between Glasgow’s two SPFL Premiership clubs!

If you don’t have access to Google, Matthew is a key lieutenant in Micky Beale’s coaching team according to the Daily Record. He could circle around Celtic Park at noon on Saturday without anyone having the slightest idea who he is.

It seems that no-one on the Ibrox payroll can open their gob without talking about Celtic and trying to claim that there is some sort of comparison or relationship between the two clubs.

Matthew has had a journeyman career in coaching at clubs like Maidstone, Welling and Millwall Youths before reaching the giddy heights of QPR last summer alongside Micky Beale.

After four months in Glasgow he apparently knows everything about Oldfirms with the Daily Record eager to hang on to his big match insights:

The home game we felt was a good game with how we responded. Both teams I felt were quite cagey, even going into the Final, it’s a mutual respect in terms of teams but, ultimately, it’s down to who wants to be best on the day and we look forward to it.

It was my first Old Firm game in January, obviously we experienced it from afar, speaking to the manager over the years, the great games he’s had. When you then play it and that was at Ibrox, with great support, we were very, very close.

We then had the Cup Final, that was interesting, because you have a 50/50 split in terms of fans. And you go into this game and you recognise you won’t have that support. But we know going into the game we have great support.

That is the most important thing as a player, you can go into any situation and still have the belief and desire to want to play our style.

Matthew retired from playing in 1999 at the age of 29 while turning out for Northampton Town.

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