Brendan Fraudgers!

I'm gonna go get the papers get the papers..

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When was the last domestic game we failed to score ?

 

Aye. Same here. If id spent the hours on counter strike, playing football id be messi

 

I've now got the gut as evidence of such a lifestyle

 

Just ordered my Brendan Rodgers official autobiography can't wait to read what i am sure will be great read , what more can you say about the man thats not already been said , brendan here for 10 i a row , KT as captain . king Henrik to take over once he's done , ahhhh the dream

 

BRENDAN Rodgers’ Uncle Kevin wrote a letter to Billy McNeill suggesting the Parkhead side should consider signing his teenage nephew some 30 years before he became a Celticlegend. The diverting detail is just one revelation from the Northern Irishman’s official autobiography ‘The Road to Paradise’, which goes on sale at official Celtic stores this week.

As the Parkhead close in a match against Kilmarnock this Saturday which could see them equal the all-time British record of 62 domestic matches unbeaten, set by Willie Maley’s Celtic side between November 1915 and April 2017, at the height of the World War I, the extract was released on the Celtic website, as part of a pre-publicity blitz which also includes a Q and A with his countryman and friend Eamonn Holmes in Glasgow today. His journey to become Celtic manager all began with 20-a-side mixed age matches in a car park in Carnlough.

“I always loved playing football,” said Rodgers. “In Carnlough, although there was a senior team, we didn’t have any recognised boys’ teams at that time, but I was always with a ball and played with my friends.

“The leagues were in Ballymena and Larne, so we’d have needed an * or even a group of people to take the initiative and form a team. I can understand that the travel involved, having to go from Carnlough to all these places to play, made it difficult, and the circumstances around going into different areas at that time were restrictive as well.

“There was maybe a wee idea from others that I had some talent, although I just knew I loved football, so I was always practising and trying to be my best,” he added. “When we played in the village, there would be a big game in the car park during the summer evenings, when everyone would just descend on it. It would be a twenty versus twenty game.

“It was mainly older teenagers and men who played, and if you were really young and light, you normally wouldn’t be allowed to join in, but they always let me play because I think they quite enjoyed having me in amongst them.

“The older boys all wanted to win and they didn’t want a skinny little guy taking them on and showing them up. That was what toughened me up as well. Everything’s more organised now and that bit of spontaneity has been lost from a social perspective. So I got an inkling at that time about my ability. I also played with my own pals, and there were other boys who played who were very good, so there was a real passion for football in Carnlough.

“I’d been spotted because I’d got into the Northern Ireland schoolboys’ squad, while I also played for Ballymena United in the 1988 Milk Cup, which was, and still remains, a top youth tournament in Northern Ireland. So it was brilliant for me. It was what I always wanted, playing in a team, doing something that I loved and then hoping for the call to tell me Celtic were interested. That was what I was always waiting for as a schoolboy.

“The Celtic scout for Northern Ireland back then was a guy called Dessy McGuinness, and I’d always ask my dad on the way home from games if Dessy had been there.

“It was only after I became Celtic manager that I discovered my Uncle Kevin had actually written to Billy McNeill back in September 1987, telling him about me and suggesting that Celtic should take a look at me. He was trying to do everything to get me into Celtic, bless him, because he would have loved nothing more than that. Kevin was also a great fan of Big Billy and had hoped to arrange to meet him.

“Sadly he never got to do that, but he’d mentioned me in the letter and he got a lovely reply from Billy. I didn’t know he’d actually sent that letter, but it is amazing to think that, 30 years on, I became the Celtic manager. There was interest from a few English clubs, however, and at that time it was a schoolboy form I would have signed.”

Rodgers lost his mum Christine and father Malachy within a short period of time in 2010 - paying tribute to both after Celtic clinched the invincible treble in such dramatic circumstances in his first year at the club against Aberdeen at Hampden last May. Yet their influence lives on through him, a point Rodgers makes clear in his autobiography.

“My dad didn’t really know a lot about the game,” said Rodgers. “He was brilliant for his energy and his enthusiasm to help me, but with me being the first as well, he probably didn’t understand the dynamics of it all.

“He was getting advice from various people, and they were telling him, ‘Brendan’s got talent, so let him go around a few of the clubs and then see which one he enjoys best’.

“My dad was always very supportive in whatever I wanted to do but he would still push me to work hard, to do my best and to train in every which way I could to improve. Sometimes he’d hear of different things. For example, if you ran with weights round your legs you’d get faster and stronger, so that was it. So he bought me weights and I would be running for miles with them strapped on my legs. The support I got from him, however, taking me all round the country to play football, was great.

“There’s no doubt that my mum and dad’s influence as a child growing up is with me to this day, and I hear their voices in many things I do in life. I enjoy the mornings because they were always up early in the morning. We had a big family so there was never time for lying in bed, or sleeping in, so I love the mornings of my life because we were always up early. There were lots of influences, but in particular there was the work ethic – you get out of it what you put into it. That was something which was very clear from my dad.”

 

0-0 against Dundee around march 2016

 

Depressing times. Sevco demolished them 4-0 shortly before it.

 

* * times. If griff wasn't on song we were aswell not bothering

 

Aye but that was when they were back and going for 55 Timmy

 

Mental how we went from a one man team to a squad of different star performers every week in a few months after Rodgers arriving. We always have someone to step up. Couldn’t pick a star player at the moment.

 

With the same players pretty much

 

Heading up to the evening with Brendan tonight. Any other posters going? Kinda hoping he ends with a song and dance number

 

BR: “I don’t need to build any anticipation into the game because of the record or put any expectancy on the players because of it.”


BR: "It’s something we have every game we play. If it happens it’s nice but our focus is very much on how we play.”


BR: “When you start to add these things into the performance then it can add different pressures which you don’t need."

BR: “When you play for #CelticFC there’s an anticipation and expectancy in every game so you don’t need to load it up with anything more."


BR: “During the week we put another sign post in the ground in terms of how we work and it shows we’re on the right path.”

BR: “It was a very good performance but I think we’ve performed well in a lot of our games.”

BR: “Going into that game we were very focused. It was a very impressive performance and we aim to play like that in every game.”

BR on Steve Clarke: “Steve’s a good man. He did exceptionally well at West Brom and at Reading."

BR: “They couldn’t have brought anyone better in than Steve with his experience and his qualities. I look forward to seeing him tomorrow.”

BR: “They’ll be organised. He always has his teams super organised, compact and difficult to break down.”


BR: “They’ve had the confidence winning against Partick and a good result at Ibrox. We expect a tough game.”


BRENDAN Rodgers said his team will only be focused on playing like they did against Aberdeen in midweek when they meet Kilmarnock in the Premiership this Saturday and not on trying to equal Celtic’s 100-year-old unbeaten domestic record.

The Hoops’ near flawless 3-0 win over second place Aberdeen on Wednesday night not only moved them three points clear at the top of the table, but sent a warning out to the rest of the Premiership that the quality and commitment from the champions remains as strong as ever.

Now, Kilmarnock visit Celtic Park, with Brendan Rodgers' side knowing that a draw or a victory will extend the unbeaten domestic run to 62 games, equalling a record set between 1915-17.

Speaking to the media at Lennoxtown today, the Celtic manager said: “It was a very good performance against Aberdeen, but I think we’ve performed well in a lot of our games.

“Going into that game we were very focused. We aim to play like that in every game we play. We might not always play like that but the level of performance under that pressure was outstanding, so it was a very pleasing victory.”

It was legendary Celtic manager Willie Maley who guided Celtic side to a 62-game domestic unbeaten run during the 1915/16 and 1916/17 seasons. Despite the magnitude of equalling that record, Brendan Rodgers said his side needed no extra motivation to win.

“I don’t need to build any anticipation into the game because of the record or put any expectancy on the players because of it," he said. “It’s something we have every game we play. If it happens it’s nice but our focus is very much on how we play.

"Like the other night, we go into the game and aim to play well and if we can play well then the players will enjoy it and get the results they have been.

“If it happens we can reflect on it. It can’t come into our thinking before the game. When you start to add these things into the performance then it can add different pressures which you don’t need.

"When you play for Celtic there’s an anticipation and expectancy in every game, so you don’t need to load it up with anything more. Just go and play and trust our work."

 

Just spoke to a couple on a mini bus heading through and it sound's eventful already

Is Eamon Holmes a Tim? Always thought he was a United man but he's doing all of these by the sound's of it..

 

Hate Eamon Holmes always strikes me as a hun

 

Back to Paradise on Saturday"
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