{"id":8639,"date":"2016-02-12T08:39:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2016-02-12T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:39:46","slug":"celtic-diary-friday-february-12-the-most-difficult-job-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=8639","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Friday February 12: The Most Difficult Job In Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it Celtic manager ? No, I don&#8217;t think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Even after reading Ronny Deila&#8217;s \u00a0comments \u00a0about how he felt when Celtic lost back to back domestic games for the first time under his guidance. I use the word &#8220;guidance &#8221; here very loosely. So loosely, in fact, I&#8217;m not even sure I&#8217;ve got the spelling right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cMany times I have sat after games and thought that I don\u2019t want to do this anymore, Because it is so painful to lose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s like you feel as though the police are standing outside your door in the morning, waiting to take you in because you have done something criminal. That\u2019s how it feels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cI know the players have the same feeling. It takes a day but then you have to get this away and look forward. Then you need to have fun when doing things. If you don\u2019t, you will never improve.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ufo ufo-right\" style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to wake up at times. You just lie there. Sometimes you don\u2019t sleep either, just lie there thinking. But that\u2019s why I am here. Because I really care and want to turn things around.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cThe hardest part in life is when you don\u2019t know what the answer is. But when you know the way forward you can do that. For me, it takes 48 hours to get the disappointment and reflection out of the body.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cMy kids said a good thing to me. When we lost the semi-final [to Ross County], they were here. It wasn\u2019t easy to try and look at them after that game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cThen they said to me: We know how it is daddy. We talk together, but you don\u2019t listen. That\u2019s what it is like when you come home from a loss. You are thinking and you are not actually there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><em>\u201cYou feel the pain twice, but that\u2019s how it is and that is what I have chosen. I chose this life. I\u2019ve done it for 20 years.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s hell or heaven all of the time. That\u2019s how football is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s why I have to try to deal with it, but it you don\u2019t feel pain or happiness, then I think I would be very bored.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s been intense. But to get out of this situation you must stay calm and keep believing in what you. Everyone has to drag in the same direction and bounce back.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, reading that,I can&#8217;t get this image out of my mind;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/staticarchive\/b0136bf3f58899379b4b41d9cb839acbba7e8b3e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Come on, man.<\/p>\n<p>Pull yourself together.<\/p>\n<p>Theres a league and a cup to be won.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikedidonato.com\/images\/2009\/05\/fanfare.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thats a call to arms, by the way. We&#8217;re economising on the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of goes with the boards policy of economising on the team.<\/p>\n<p>Ronny sent out his own rallying call.<\/p>\n<div class=\"grid_8 alpha story-details small\" style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">\n<div class=\"nonstory-links\">\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<p><em>\u201cI know all the time that there is another world out there,But this is a lifestyle. It\u2019s not a job. I say all the time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI can assure you that I have been as furious as this when I was in Stromsgodset as well. We didn\u2019t win an away game for a year. Every time we went away, we came home with a loss. It was in the newspapers all the time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI said the same things that we had to learn from the experience, develop and in the end we would reach the goal. That\u2019s how it has been in my football career. \u201c\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloadicons.net\/sites\/default\/files\/rewind-icon-61527.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We didn\u2019t win an away game for a year. Every time we went away, we came home with a loss\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, the guy who scouts the managers is exactly the same person who scouts the strikers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Ca9S6IwW8AIw6mP.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lake.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d83452654869e200e55282a3988834-pi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But are we?<\/p>\n<p>Surely he must hate the way he felt after the two defeats ?<\/p>\n<p>Surely he must feel like kicking ass in the dressing room ?<\/p>\n<p>One solution would be start giving motivational and passionate pre match talks.<\/p>\n<p>I can help here. For tomorrows game anyway.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;See those players out there. they&#8217;re the reason you felt like shit two weeks ago. they&#8217;re the reason that we aren&#8217;t going to win the treble. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; See that shirt you&#8217;re wearing. you let it down. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Listen to those supporters out there. you let them down. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You let me down. and you let yourselves down. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Now go out there and out it right. I want you to kick everything that moves. And if it doesn&#8217;t move, kick it until it does. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; I want you to play with the heart. I want to see some spirit and I want to see some passion. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Those supporters have worked all week, this is their day off and they have spent a lot of their money and taken a lot of their time to come and watch you today. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;And they want to see you put things right. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When you come in after the game i want to see you still roaring. I want to see that you want to go back out and beat them again. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; Today you are playing for pride, your pride, my pride and the pride of the guys watching. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You owe it to us, and to yourselves. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Now go out there and kick fuck out of them. &#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Piece of piss this management lark.<\/p>\n<p>Its tim eto inject a little arrogance into our play. We \u00a0should be proud of what we are, and who we are. There&#8217;s no need to cast envious eyes elsewhere,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Ca_XgG7WcAEe7MK.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And I would start the match with exactly the same team who lost to Ross County in the League cup. As far as i&#8217;m concerned, they made an arse of it, so they can put it right.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgia-gibbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/208x200xAustin-Powers-Yeah-Baby1.png,Mic_.-u36nsO2zw.png.pagespeed.ce.CHZ7Cxk-VI.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, when we are four or five ahead, Patrick Roberts can run at them and complete a thoroughly miserable day for the Highlanders. While he&#8217;s doing that, someone can go and let the tyres down on their bus and put some sugar in the tank, that&#8217;ll teach the bastards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.fjcdn.com\/pictures\/Yeehaa_d1ee50_631098.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ronny may have made some bad decisions, perhaps more than most, but he can take comfort in the fact that he had nothing to do with what is easily the worst decision of the twenty first century so far;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/screenrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zoolander-2-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its hard to believe someone, somewhere , watched the first one and thought a second one would be a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, where was I ?<\/p>\n<p>So, no, Ronny Deila doesn&#8217;t have the most difficult job in football.<\/p>\n<p>That particular honour goes to the guy negotiating -or trying to negotiate -a new contract for Charlie Mulgrew. Due to injury, the utility player hasn&#8217;t started many games of late, and despite this, has apparently attracted interest from England. Claiming that Arsenal and Aston villa are interested in him wouldn&#8217;t work, so his agent has moved on to the letter B in his Rothmans book Of english clubs, and cited Blackpool and Bournemouth as possible suitors.<\/p>\n<p>Or he could have been looking at a copy of &#8220;Weekend Seaside Breaks &#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>Yet Celtic need Mulgrew. He has a calming influence on those around him, who do have a tendency to run about a lot, with little gain. Its just going to be difficult to persuade Peter Lawwell of that.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t afford to lose any \u00a0experienced players, so get him signed, but also, make him take his coaching badges as part of the deal. you never know when we might need a spare coach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Attitude is important, and sometimes you just have to alter your perspective to get what you want.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Ca9esdIWAAUb-hk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in bother again, and not only has she seen her Valentines present, she&#8217;s not overly impressed with the card.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emslf.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/youll-do-valentines-day-card-from-paperchase.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caption competition ?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldpicsarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mental-Hospital-Nurses-1936.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Hospital Nurses, 1936\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it Celtic manager ? No, I don&#8217;t think it is. 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