GARY KEOWN: RB Leipzig love-in should see Brendan Rodgers drop the nonsense about the world being against him Rodgers has has been showered with praise after Celtic's win over Leipzig Join Mail+ to read Celtic Confidential every Tuesday, plus more exclusive scoops, in-depth coverage and analysis from Parkhead By GARY KEOWN Published: 02:00, 10 November 2024 | Updated: 02:00, 10 November 2024 e-mail View comments Ahead of his side’s campaign-changing draw at Atalanta last month, Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers expressed the view that taking part in European competition was ‘an opportunity to beat you over the head with a stick’. He claimed expectations at that level of football were disproportionate. That people — presumably journalists and pundits — spend months saving up beastly stories to write in anticipation of the club falling flat on their faces.
Errant nonsense, of course. Anyone who has any knowledge of the average newsgatherer can tell you that, for most, the level of forward planning in the multimedia maelstrom extends little further than just getting to the end of the day and settling on whether it should be grape or grain for late-night succour. What’s more, given Celtic’s abysmal record in UEFA tournament play over the last decade or so, the idea anyone would have to wait months to lay the boot into them is ludicrous.
Their failings have been far more frequent than that. Even on Friday, though, in the wake of rose petals being scattered indiscriminat.
