Sometimes, managers don’t do themselves any favours.
Sometimes, honesty is the best policy because fans respect the fact that their boss has identified an area in which the football team needs to improve and will endeavour to put that improvement into practice.
What fans most certainly don’t respect is the outright denial of any responsibility or admission of being embarrassed.
Is it really saving face when a manager claims that a result, which has almost universally been condemned as the worst in the club’s history, is not an embarrassment?
Brendan Rodgers has been slammed for his first post-match interview as Celtic manager in which he bizarrely claimed that “there’s no embarrassment” after losing 1-0 to Gibraltarian side Lincoln Red Imps.
In the first leg of the Champions League second qualifying round, the Hoops were upset by the 451st-ranked side in Europe.
“A game that we dominated and had enough chances to score, but sometimes it can happen in games like that, one ball up the pitch and they’re in,” Rodgers said.
“We’ve given ourselves a bit of work to do. I saw enough from the game, we created enough to go through. Of course you never want to lose the game.
“You let the local team have their night, we press on, another week’s training and be better for it.
“There’s no embarrassment. We never took our chances and they took theirs. The second leg will be different.”
Rodgers has some neck to say there's no embarrassment after losing to a team like that
— Grant Milne (@Grant67Milne) July 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/JakeMooreSport/status/752971389590732800
Brendan Rodgers says there's "no embarrassment"#Celtic is shit.
— Nicklas Jönsson (@Junsen81) July 12, 2016
Brendan Rodgers started the bullshit already I see. No embarrassment??!!
— Kieran Lamont (@KieranLamont) July 12, 2016
Rodgers is an embarrassment https://t.co/lJl6D4phld
— Paulo (@gutted27) July 12, 2016
