Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Aberdeen - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - May 27, 2023 Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou and Kyogo Furuhashi pose with the trophy after winning the Scottish Premiership REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Fresh from criticising his smart arse reply to an ignorant question about winning trophies Ewan Murray has followed up with a furious attack on the ‘Cult of Ange’.
It seems that a visit to Dens Park in May 1986 has utterly destroyed the ability of the Guardian’s golf reporter to discuss rationally anything that can be related to Celtic.
Murray’s smart arse comment came following Ange Postecoglou’s media conference to preview the FA Cup victory over Burnley.
The Guardian could have sent their in-house Jambo to the media conference for tomorrow’s match against Manchester United but seem to have opted out of setting up an epic mismatch.
It seems that a winning manager with success on his CV to back up his personality and honest approach to football and the media is just too much to take for someone that drools over the words of Robbie Neilson and Steven Naismith.
Ange is a fine manager but the last trophy he won involved a final with lads earning 10-30k a week versus lads earning £500-900 a week. He shouldn’t be a smart arse about it. https://t.co/AK7hgSOJNt
— Ewan Murray (@mrewanmurray) January 4, 2024
While Murray leads with his attack on Postecoglou there is no doubt his real anger is at Celtic fans, those that celebrated at Love Street in May 1986 while the reporter’s world was falling apart on Tayside. Almost 40 years later it seems the pain inflicted by Super Sub Albert Kidd has only intensified.
It appears that the Guardian’s left wing ethos doesn’t extent to the Golf Desk where the dark feelings of Murray seem impossible to suppress with a couple of classics today including:
Here was a hitherto unknown manager who, clearly, would take no nonsense upon his arrival from Yokohama Marinos in 2021. Fans insisted a supposedly hostile Scottish media would be reduced to head-spinning wrecks by Postecoglou.
Murray is a prime example of the hostility of the legacy Scottish media despite his current base in England.
Criticise Postecoglou even mildly and a barrage of lingual grenades will fly from Sydney, Springburn and Seven Sisters. Trust me.
Since virtually no-one cares for the golf coverage in The Guardian Murray knows how to make himself relevant.
While in Scotland, he scoffed at the arrival of VAR as if it was a total irrelevance to him. He was soon railing against its introduction, branding it “a bit of a mess” and castigating “zero consistency” in “remarkable” decision-making. “I guarantee you if that game finished 2-2 and it was Rangers that were denied that decision, the talk would be about how that was a title-defining decision,” he said over the non-award of a penalty in an Old Firm game. Not that people should refer to the “Old Firm” in Postecoglou’s company; he objected to Celtic and Rangers being grouped together in discussion.
For Celtic managers, this sort of stuff works. The galleries lap it up. Postecoglou was winning (domestically) while taking public swipes so had the masses in the palm of his hand. Yet this really does not make him the different character so many want to portray him as.
Perhaps Murray might want to enlighten his audience with the news that one SPFL club went 74 matches without having a penalty awarded against then, while their rival conceded two penalties in the first 90 minutes of VAR in Scotland. The reporter should certainly remember the seven goal thriller at Tynecastle.
Celtic returned to Gorgie twice more last season, ending Hearts’ hopes in the Scottish Cup then clinching the SPFL Premiership title in front of a half full stadium with the remaining home fans as angry as yer man at the Guardian.
He never mentioned Celtic, I’m sure he’s proud of all all the trophies he’s won in Japan,Australia and Scotland. The guy got a reply he deserved cause as per English hack has dismissed his achievements elsewhere cause all the matters is achieving in England.
— wyatt (@renic777) January 5, 2024
So you shouldn’t celebrate winning trophies against a team with a lower wage bill? Very strange. One trophy out of the others he won, did he single that one out? What will the history books say “* won against a team with a smaller wage bill”. No it will say “Celtic champions”.
— H (@RealDanDoyle8) January 5, 2024
What he said is factual, what you’ve posted is fiction. There’s the difference.
— OverandOver… (@keeptryinglads) January 5, 2024
Murray’s a beeler mini hun who gets enraged at the sight of the hoops, particularly at golf tournaments.
Celtic occupies his every waking moment apparently. The club is a permanent fixture in his ragin heid.
They beat a team in the semi final who had a higher wage bill. The same team who won nothing so what point is he trying to make here ?
Beat them in league cup as well it just sums up the dire state of the media.
The Guardian ! Isn’t that the rag who asks it’s highly dwindling readership for donations to help finance it’s scoops ‘ salaries ? Might be wrong ….I’m sure I’ve read that online !
Very dismissive Jack.
The Guardian is one of the very few truly Independent Newspapers left standing outwith the grasp of the right wing Media Moguls.
They don’t charge behind a Pay Wall for their on line content, it’s free.
They ask for donations to help preserve their Independence.
The cost of daily & weekends SMSM Issues is approximately £50.00 per month.
I haven’t bought a SMSM publication for at least 10 years and consider my £20 per month donation to the Guardian well worth it for their non biased coverage of the ‘Real World’.
You know the things that the UK MSM Print Media and the English Broadcasting Corporation won’t tell you.
To each his own I suppose….
Why didn’t he say that at the interview….? Fckn wee shitbag.
if you think the guardian prints anything other than the elites corrupt agenda your deluded. did you sleep through the last few years? where was the guardians truth then?