A somewhat uneasy Brendan Rodgers was captured on camera reacting in the instant following Motherwell’s score at Fir Park on Saturday.
As the Celtic manager looked straight ahead, pundit Liam McLeod delivered his thoughtful analysis of a potentially problematic situation. At that exact moment, the winners were five points behind in their quest for a twelfth championship in thirteen years.
The Beeb reporter thought, “He’s wondering what day of the week it is again.
As observations go, it wasn’t particularly insightful. The use of the word ‘again’ more than suggested this state of flux or anxiety was not a rare occurrence for the Celtic manager.
You could even interpret the remarks as being demeaning to the 51-year-old Irishman, who, please remember, won seven successive honours in his first stint as team chief at Parkhead. The haul included two back-to-back trebles, the first achieved by a team which earned the mantle as ‘The Invincibles’ following an unbeaten crusade from the first kick to the final whistle of a momentous season.
You might think that someone with a string of impressive accomplishments deserves respect or, at the absolute least, will let him get away with things when they don’t go as planned.
If you can find someone who says everything has been all right since they came out of the womb, you can bet they’re lying. Folks, this is real life. This road of discovery is paved with numerous obstacles.
Although Rodgers has experienced greater moments in the Celtic dugout, I don’t think he’s about to lose his mind. I would wager that he would take the milk for a stroll instead of putting the dog in the refrigerator.
The man with the microphone on the Beeb made some really snarky remarks, which I wouldn’t take too seriously. It’s unlikely that he was genuinely doubting Rodgers’s sanity, but it’s undeniable that his remark came out as a pitiful, inane jab.
By coincidence, the statement was made just an hour before the Celtic manager got involved in a ridiculous sexism controversy after speaking with BBC Scotland’s pitchside reporter, Jane Lewis, after the game.
After Rodgers concluded the interview rather abruptly and signed off with the words “good girl,” feminist organizations became extremely agitated.
That was enough to provoke a variety of insane remarks, one of which insisted that the manager was “a dinosaur.”
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