Celtic right back Tony Ralston on Brendan Rodgers and fatherhood
A LOT has changed since Tony Ralston was, as a fresh-faced 18-year-old with just a handful of first team appearances for Celtic behind him, selected to face Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League group game and charged with nullifying the threat posed by Neymar back in 2017.
“But the hunger is still there. Back then, I was a kid trying to come into a team that was very hard to break into. But I’m still fighting every day to do that, nothing much has changed there. Myhas evolved and I have learned as time has gone on. Hopefully, I can put it all into practice.” “He has come in at this point and I am very much looking forward to working with him. I’m delighted he is here. I’m now in a different place both in my personal life and here too.
He had missed much of pre-season, including the trip to Japan, with a knock and had to push himself at Lennoxtown to get in good enough shape to be involved. Ralston knows he faces a battle to keep his place when Johnston, the Canadian internationalist who was revelation in the second half of the 2022/23 campaign, recovers from an ankle operation and returns. But he is, after eight years at Celtic, quite accustomed to that.
“You need that when you are at a top club, it pushes you every day in training. At the end of the day, it is about the team and how we support each other. If one is in you support the other, you try to push each other every day. It is the same with the country set-up too. It’s all good.”Ralston made his Scotland debut in the Qatar 2022 qualifying win over Denmark at Hampden two seasons ago when he came on as a late replacement for Kieran Tierney.
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