It’s decent- watch Ange’s classic sign off from Sky Sports interview in the driest fashion
Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Motherwell - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - May 14, 2022 Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou celebrate winning the Scottish Premiership with the trophy Action Images via Reuters/Molly Darlington
To an outsider it perhaps looked like Ange Postecoglou was justifying an empty season of failure.
True the defeat from Hibs at Easter Road last night was a sore one to take as the shortcomings of several players in the Celtic squad were exposed.
In their previous visit to Edinburgh they had celebrated winning the SPFL title in front of the Sky Sports cameras but the tone of questioning from Stuart Lovell last night was very different.
Sensing that the former Hibs and Livingston midfielder decided to remind viewers that Celtic would be collecting one trophy on Saturday with the prospect of completing another treble seven days later at Hampden.
With the wryest of smiles Postecoglou suggested that it could be a decent season!
? “I’ve made the decision to rotate the squad…it’s affected our level of performance”
Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou believes giving players game time will benefit them in the long term after defeat to Hibs ? pic.twitter.com/NgwJ1Vz0u1
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) May 24, 2023
At Tuesday’s pre-match media conference Postecoglou was clearly irked by the line of questioning which focussed on the negatives since the SPFL Premiership title was won.
Context seems to be a lost art in the coverage of Scottish football, after almost two years in the country it appears that it is one aspect that Postecoglou isn’t prepared to embrace.