Our man reckons the Irishman can do no right in the eyes of some due to the manner of his exit first time around
And they’ll only understand how true that is when he’s no longer there and they feel a sense of loss bordering on bereavement. No matter what he does, even going to Italy in the Champions League on Wednesday night and taking a precious point from Atalanta, last season’s winners of the Europa League , Brendan is still condemned to be The Unforgiven by his detractors.
The general tone of the complaints made against him was to the effect that supporters wouldn’t take lessons on affection for the club from someone who had once left Celtic in mid-season to take up another job elsewhere. I wrote here at the time that his first media briefing was not so much a press conference as Rodgers being held in custody and interviewed under caution. Anything he said was written down and would be used in evidence against him at a later date. One league and cup double later, some people still go on about Leicester City any time the slightest thing goes wrong.
We have a domestic game that attracts big crowds and stimulates interest and controversy in equal measure, but once the Premiership goes into Europe harsher standards apply and we are sometimes left exposed. There’s no shame attached because that is essentially what a pecking order is all about.
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