{"id":12035,"date":"2017-10-05T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2017-10-05T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T07:30:00","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-october-5-exclusive-the-one-that-got-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=12035","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday October 5: Exclusive: The One That Got Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s it. Sack the entire coaching staff.<\/p>\n

The next story to hit the SMSM will be about the one that got away…<\/p>\n

Stolen from the Liverpool club website, which in itself is a sort of poetic justice…<\/p>\n

\u201cFor (the dream) to come to an end, it\u2019s hard, and everyone you know knows you play for Celtic \u2013 telling them you\u2019ve been released is not a nice feeling,\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of boys it happens to up and down the country is incredible, as is the amount of people that don\u2019t come back from it because it just hits them that hard.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI know boys that got released when we were younger and they\u2019re nowhere to be seen and that happens with probably 95 per cent of the boys that do.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew Robertson, who now plays for struggling Liverpool, has opened up on what its like to be released by Celtic.<\/p>\n

Whilst at 15 he was still learning, and apparently too small, someone somewhere deemed he wasn’t going to make it at the club. They were right, he made it somewhere else.<\/p>\n

It happens.<\/p>\n

Remember the goalkeeping conundrum facing Lou Macari and his goalkeeper coach Joe Corrigan ?<\/p>\n

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Corrigan, a decent enough bloke, now lives just outside Knutsford, and looks back fondly on his time at Celtic, as does Lou Macari..hey wee story time..<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, myself, Macari and three local chaps were sitting around the table chatting. Macari introduced me as a Celtic supporter, and one of the locals pointed out that he didn’t really rate our manager.<\/p>\n

I countered that to be honest, we’d never really had any good managers, which brought forth a guttural sound from the other side of the table that reminded me that someone never really left Glasgow at all.<\/p>\n

I make friends everywhere, me.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, rambling apart, Corrigan recommended that of the keepers in the above picture, Celts should stick with Stewart Kerr and Gordon Marshall, even if the ball never did when they tried to catch it, whilst Brad Freidel and shay given would be allowed to move on.<\/p>\n

Hang on, I think I’m on the point of spotting why Corrigan now looks back on his time at Celtic…<\/p>\n

The point is, some players take rejection and shrug it off, simply upping their effort, and Robertson is one of those.<\/p>\n

Which when the story goes mainstream, is exactly how our press will cover it..<\/p>\n

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Anyway, we’ve got Keiran Tierney, and there are rumours that whilst he loves Celtic, he too, will have his head turned by the bright lights…<\/p>\n

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Who should play James Bond after Daniel Craig.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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