With Celtic posting Scott Brown’s Media Conference on the club’s You Tube channel earlier today we got the confirmation that the Neil Lennon video from yesterday is never going to see the light of day on the club’s official media channels.
The fall-out from yesterday continued with St Johnstone being forced to issue a statement to correct inaccuracies in relation to their observation and compliances with Covid protocols after Neil Lennon made allegations about both St Johnstone and Hamilton.
If you are going to make these allegations and you have had plenty of time to sit at home and prefer your claims then surely it is the least that can be expected is an expectation of accuracy. Otherwise you’ll rather silly and so will Celtic Football Club.
The Celtic captain wasn’t going to go anywhere near any of that stuff today. “I am not here to get involved with protocols and stuff, I am here to talk about the game,” Broony said, instead directly the hacks to matters on the park. What about Celtic’s falling standards this season they asked.
“I don’t think I can put my finger on it but we haven’t performed as well as we possibly could have.
“It has all been the same training, pretty much the same players as well, we have just not done as well as we possibly could have, as I said. But we are still there, we are still working extremely hard every day, whether it is at Lennoxtown or wherever we are and that’s what we do.
“We still believe that we are a fantastic team but we need to make sure we keep showing it in games. We are obviously not in the best position but we have got three games in hand, we need to make sure we win these games.
“We need to hit top form now and keep believing as well because we always have got the faith and that positivity.
“We know that we can keep winning games and that’s what we have to do to try and put the pressure on our rivals.”
So is Ten-in-a-Row still achievable they asked? “I don’t see why not. We believe it is but we need to make sure we win every game and it starts tomorrow.”
Scott Brown got a taste of what we’ve all had to endure – watching Celtic play at home on the club’s Pass to Paradise season ticket – and he admitted that watching those two draws against Hibs and Livingston wasn’t easy.
“Isolation was hard to be fair, seeing the lads playing and not everyone being able to help them out. But it’s what we had to do and we managed to do that, come back in. We have had a good couple of days training and now we are getting ready for the game against Livingston on Wednesday.”
Next he was asked about how he felt now that Ismaila Soro had taken his place in the team: “It is fine. Soro has done fantastic and he is a great lad. I have played 60 games for the last 14/15 seasons at this club and I have enjoyed every single moment of it.
“Soro has been fantastic, he has bid his time really well and since he came in he has taken his chance.
“For me it is about trying to help Soro out as much as I can because he is still young, he is extremely keen, he is quick over the ground, and I am not as quick any more to be perfectly honest.
“I am here for the gaffer whenever he needs me. I am here for the lads, to help them in any way whatsoever.
“This football club is not about me, it is about putting the best team on the park whether it is Livingston at home or Rangers away, we need to concentrate on that and not worry about whether I am playing week in, week out.”
All Celtic supporters should remember what Tommy Sheridan was saying as for ally mc’coist he is just another dyed in the wool blue nose and you know how they think and what about the refs and linesmen think “hibs game”