Q: You were obviously involved in an ugly incident at theRangers game at Ibrox. How are you, first of all? How are you feeling after being hit (by coins thrown at him by theRangers support)?
Arne Engels: “I’m good. In the beginning it was a bit sore, but at the end it was okay It’s not really nice to experience things like that. You just want to play your game and just want to enjoy the football. It was not really enjoyable that night, but it was not a really nice incident.”
Q: Were you able to shake it off? I know it was still late in the game, but it must have been a worry for you?
Arne Engels: “You always need to switch on and that’s why you are a football player. You always need to think on the next situation and that’s what everybody is telling you. You need to think about the next situation. That’s, I think, what I did. In the end, you can always look back on it and think maybe it was not really nice or this or that. In the end, you need to perform. I think it was in the last ten minutes or something. You still need to play those ten minutes. It’s a really high-level game. You still need to do it.”
Q: Has anything like that ever happened to you before? Have you seen it in Germany or Belgium at all?
Arne Engels: “Sometimes you see things like that, like beer spilling all over you, but not really throwing things on top of your head or something. It’s never nice and it’s never good to happen in a football stadium. You are there to do your job and I think you guys never experienced something like it, that somebody will throw coins or something on your heads during your work. So it’s never really nice to see that happen and experiencing that, but in the end, you need to get through.
Q: Is there anything in general that surprised you about Scottish football over the last three or four months? Anything that stood out for you at all?
Arne Engels: “Only positive feelings. The atmosphere in Celtic Park is amazing every time. So only positive things like this. Not really something bad I can tell.”
