Alistair Johnston

Love this guy already

 

what a bhoy.

 

Seems too intelligent to be a footballer lol. I like him , he speaks like a human being rather than the media savvy coached players we usually see.

 

Basically called out the * on VAR who screwed us again on Monday. Love him already.

 

The huns just found out his mother is from Newtownards and are raging, calling him a traitor etc. Mental bunch.

 

Celtic's Alistair Johnston makes Rangers handball claim and reveals team-mate who is 'one of hardest trainers I've seen'
Celtic debutant Alistair Johnston has appealed for consistency in the application of VAR but stopped short of suggesting the Parkhead side dropped points at Ibrox because of its failure to penalise a Connor Goldson handball.



It has been the main moment of contention in post-match summations with Johnston echoing the view that Celtic should have been awarded a penalty.

“We live it, we feel it and see it,” said Johnston. “The one on Monday was one you go, ‘okay, I’m not really sure how two hands in front of your face is considered a natural hand position.’




Obviously there’s been discussion about it. We would have loved it to have been called and we might think it should have been called. But there were other chances in the game where we could have scored, or we could have done better – like at both the goals, for example.


“I could have been tighter to prevent [Ryan] Kent cutting in, if you do that you don’t need to think about the potential penalty or VAR. There are so many other moments within a match. Of course we’d like VAR to be as consistent as possible. At the same time we understand it’s something that’s out of our control. We can't rely on something that’s out of our control.”

Meanwhile, the full-back has also maintained that there will be no complacency within Celtic’s ranks despite the preservation of their nine-point lead in the cinch Premiership.


You look at guys like Callum McGregor, who could take it easy or coast a little bit,” said the Canadian internationalist. “But he is one of the hardest trainers I’ve ever seen. He puts in tackles all over the place and it’s really cool to see and be part of.


It comes down to the staff as they’ve implemented this idea it’s not just being part of a team challenging for trophies but also wanting that next step, whether it’s domestically or in Europe. You simply can’t have complacency – it can be so dangerous.

“It is not flowers over there. It is tough work every single day.”

 

That's a couple of players now that've said Callum is unbelievable in training, easy to see why too.

 

Impressive young lad, terrific speaker.

 

Still amazed that no clubs have sniffed about him, the lads * amazing.

 

The rat tried in 2019 on deadline day the cheeky *

 

Seems an intelligent lad and very switched on. Can’t get over the fact of how much he sounds like Tiger Woods.

 

Incredibly good speaker.

 

Really like him, seems a proper intelligent lad.

 

35 game suspension for bringing the game into disrepute........

Honestly wouldn't put it past the SFA to look into taking action.

But generally speaking, this guys has his head screwed on well and clearly has more lights switched on up there then your average footballer

 

Is it this normal for a new player to be presented to the media this often? As Canadian fans, we hunt every piece of content about each of our players in Europe, but with the amount we’re hearing about AJ, it seems like Celtic have * near elected him captain already with how often he’s been in front of the mic after less than a week at the club.

Super awesome seeing him looking solid out of the gate too.

 

Hes good at dealing with the press so will be getting rolled out at every opportunity lol. He was promoting something yesterday

 

Think he quickly realised 20 seconds into that above clip that he was close to praising the hun support there

 

When Celtic sign a player who can string a couple of sentences together coherently they get ushered out the for media duties more often than not. It was the same with O'Riley.

Don't think AJ minds it at this point. He's very eloquent.