I just try to picture how many Brendan Rodgers self-portraits that are gracing the halls of Celtic Park by now..
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Has anyone said he hasnt? I think Mark has gone OTT in his Rogers Defence League Duties.
The point is, given Celtics financial and infrastructural superiority , its not a massive surprise to hear they havent lost in 60 odd league games, nor is it a particular achievement to anybody not associated with Celtic.
Its a properly shite league, of course they will win it and subsequently they will win or draw the vast majorty of their games, so statistically to erradicate those handful of losses , its not really a feat is it?
What i was saying is in all the leagues around the world in all the years, only 3 teams have had a better run unbeaten.What does that first line say? Are you trying to say because its superrrrrrrrrrrrrr less competitive compared to the premier league or wherever else? I would imagine it wouldnt take a Madrid to replicate it either...
They dont compete in the cl over 12 months, they qualify in July and get humped and dumped , mathematically speaking by November, they reap te massive financial reward of the group stage though to further compiundthe difference between themselves and any perspective challengers in Scotland
Yeah, the gulf between the sides in the League isnt big at all. The last time a team outside of Rangers and Celtic won the League was in 1985.
Its like everyone is in with a chance up there.
There is a massive difference between winning the league and beating the top side.Yeah, the gulf between the sides in the League isnt big at all. The last time a team outside of Rangers and Celtic won the League was in 1985.
Its like everyone is in with a chance up there.
And this isn't a wow Celtic won the league again thread as that is expected. It's a wow not one single team has managed to beat them in over a year in any domestic game. That's extremely impressive.Yeah, the gulf between the sides in the League isnt big at all. The last time a team outside of Rangers and Celtic won the League was in 1985.
Its like everyone is in with a chance up there.
So not really that different to Spain, where it's usually Real or Barca, or indeed Germany, although that's really just Bayern on their own.
Really? I think you need to look at European performances to have a guage on how strong those respective leagues are.
Germany has Dortmund, Schalke, Wolfsburg and Leverkusen over the last 15 years or so who are more than capable of upsetting Bayern on their day.
Likewise in Spain for Sevilla, Valencia and A Madrid.
If you'd bother to check your facts, you'd see that in both those leagues even though there is a massive Barca/Real/Bayern/ dominace, there are currently 4 and 5 other teams that have won the league in the same period.
The leagues are also much more competitive.
In Scotland its been a one team league since Rangers got fucked, and just two before that.
LolHe's not for turning:
'I have an inherent belief in what we do and hopefully we have seen in 17 months what that can do for us as a club and as a team. At this level, of course it is remarkably difficult to do that [beat an elite club], but we must keep working towards that. We want to impose our own style in a competition of this level that gets results.”
Rodgers told a story to illustrate the depth of his conviction on that point. In 2009 he was in charge of Watford when they surprisingly ended a 16-game unbeaten run by Swansea in the Championship. “We were pragmatic, sat in, had a defensive block, and played on the counter-attack. We won 2-0. And it was one of the worst games I’ve been involved in! And to make it even worse someone handed me the performance of the week award…
“I had Malky Mackay, Sean Dyche, all my assistants, absolutely buzzing and I knew at that point that I’d put a life’s work in to developing a certain way of playing and I had a commitment to that. When I hear people who have no commitment talking about ‘being pragmatic’… hold on a minute, what about all the other times you really enjoy our football? Pep Guardiola: if he is playing really exciting football he’s not all of a sudden going to sit back and be pragmatic. That’s not what he believes in. It’s not how he works. And that’s how I work. So … unlucky. I’m not going to be sat in on 25 metres. Although I say that now, come back to me tomorrow night! But it won’t be intentional!
“Over many years here there have been some good results but, in the main, it’s been really difficult for Celtic at this level. So if it’s going to be difficult and you are going to suffer, at least try and do it in the way you want to do it. I think the players have shown over the last couple of campaigns that we’re getting better, the way they are playing with the control and confidence they have. But of course, any slight mistake at this level gets punished and that’s the difference.”
I wonder if he has many friends. He seems to almost relish suggesting that his so-called friends are his inferiors. Look at that dig at Mackay and Dyche - it conjures up an image of Mozart holding his head in artistic anguish whilst Salieri taps his toes contentedly listening to some oom-pah-pah music. And whatever happened to poor old Colin Pascoe? Is he wandering around some housing estate all alone, his shorts flapping forlornly in the wind?
Trying to think of anything I give less of shit about. No, I've got nowt.