Philippe Clement is prepared to play Dundee on Mars but not the midweek before facing Celtic.
The former Monaco boss was at his monotone best at a media conference today as he went through a range of scenarios relating to last night’s postponed match at Dens Park.
Today the SPFL confirmed that the match will be played on Wednesday April 17, if Dens Park isn’t suitable the venue will be moved depriving Dundee of home advantage.
The issue of playing on April 3, the first available date after the March 17 postponement was glossed over with the assembled reporters giggling away as Clement cracked some gags despite being a proper football manager.
The last thing I heard was that we will know on Tuesday at 12pm at the latest where we will play on Wednesday.
If not Dundee it will need to be somewhere else, but we must know before we travel on Tuesday.
It is a disadvantage (behind closed doors) but it is what it is, we have to adapt, like when it was Covid and we didn’t like that but our mindset is whatever decisions are made, we go to win games. So no excuses around that.
If that is the decision, we will play behind closed doors. If they ask us to play on Mars, we go to Mars, we take a flight to win the three points. That is the mindset of me and all my players.
With the onslaught of criticism heading at Dundee their players won’t be short of motivation for next week’s match.
Tony Docherty’s side can secure a top six place by winning at Aberdeen on Saturday, if they draw or lose the outcome of the Hibs v Motherwell match will impact on their top six prospects before the visit of Clement’s side.
If Dundee reach the top six they are expected to host the Ibrox outfit at Dens Park for a third time.
Who is the least trusted referee in Scotland?
Beaton- a back catalogue like no other
Collum- has never had his eyes on the ball
Dickinson- the dangerous rising star
McLean- nothing will beat the Caley Thistle semi
Robertson- Tynecastle was an all-time low
Walsh- Utterly compromised by the day job
Clement – “We didn’t like playing behind closed doors in Covid”
For fuck sake they loved it and were bloody good at it and The SPFL knows this…
So Behind Closed Doors it will be I’m afraid !
Exactly. Talking about knowing your history, when it was only a few years back when the won the Covid Cup. Doesn’t he know that his Captain favours closed doors as they don’t like it when their fans shout at them…poor wee souls?
Clemont should get himself a pallet of Strepsils and sit in a darkened room before his next medja performance.
HAIL HAIL
KEEP THE FAITH??
Playing on Mars should be right up Clemong’s street. After all, he spends most of his time talking out of his Ars.
Is that question a fucking joke ? How about all of the above FFS
Exactly!
Only in this tupenny ha’penny feckin’ backwater would a situation like that even be contemplated. The people in charge of football here couldn’t run a bath, and that’s the generous interpretation – the other scenario is that they know fine well that like Rangers before them that Sevco is heading for financial catastrophe without next season’s Champions League booty and all the stops are being pulled out to ensure they get it.