Yesterday’s press conference across the city was ridiculous for a number of reasons. I wrote earlier about The Mooch’s “love” for the club and his vow that he will not resign; great news that
He also snarked about officials and the decision a fortnight ago to chop off their “goal.”
Check out this contradictory nonsense; “The last game we played there was no reason to lose the game.
There’s a decision in the game that sends it in a certain direction and it’s regrettable that we lost it, we could have performed better. I’ll own it, the players have to and now we need to show our worth in the coming months
No reason to lose the last game, except we scored and they didn’t. The decision came midway through the first half. You’d think it came right on full time. He starts by saying the players didn’t do their jobs, then says the defeat is down to him (after blaming the ref) and then passes the buck to the players again.
This guy rambles more than Trump ever did.
I found that funny because it was so predictable. This is why I call him The Mooch after all.
But his comments on Cantwell were the best.
When he was asked to talk about what the player’s status was, being that he was out injured and the manager had confirmed that, he said, “Something with his knee picked up in a challenge towards the end of the game.”
Yes, that might have been the Maeda challenge, which we all thought at the time was a beauty. But that’s not the reason the player is facing what might be a long spell on the sidelines. No, as The Mooch himself admitted that’s down to him.
“He played on, we had to send him for a scan and thought it would be worse than it is, the initial diagnosis, so we’re probably two or one and a half weeks into that.”
The player himself has said that it’s “not straightforward.”
He has had his leg in a brace ever since. There is no chance of him being back in three or four more weeks. But the reason for it is right there in black and white; he was injured and they kept him on the pitch.
At the time, they had used all their substitutions. The manager had him patched up and thrown back into the fray rather than accept going down to ten men. If the injury is really as bad as it sounds like then the club, and the manager, should accept some responsibility for that. We have made the same foolish mistake once or twice, it’s not exactly unheard of.
But what’s not on is us getting blamed for it however obliquely, and he knows that’s what he’s doing when he talks about the challenge. Their forums get the message.
They are happy to have something else to blame Celtic, and officials, for. At the time they were moaning that Maeda got away with that challenge; now they are positively foaming about it.
I find all this hilarious.
Their club never stops looking for excuses, it never stops deflecting and denying its own responsibilities.
And that’s why it never learns and never improves.