Brendan Rodgers acknowledges Celtic irony of Tynecastle serenade that completed away end 180
dailyrecord.co.ukIt wasn’t lost on Brendan Rodgers.As a matter of fact, Celtic’s manager raised the irony of it all yesterday as he looked forward to reuniting his club once again tonight against an old and most unwelcome enemy.
Having been cheered off the park at Tynecastle on Sunday by an away support which chanted his name, Rodgers was quick to recall a banner being unfurled at the very same end of the very same ground – most probably by the very same fans – not all that long ago. “You traded immortality for mediocrity.
Never a Celt, always a fraud!” Those words may have been hurriedly scrawled on a bed sheet after his midnight flit to Leicester City in February 2019.
But boy did they cut they deep. Which is why it does now feel as if we are witnessing some sort of healing these days in Glasgow’s East End.The reconnection between the manager and his players and the supporters in the stands will take another major step tonight when Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid come to town – dressed up for the occasion as the pantomime villains of the Champions League.
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