Ange Postecolou has the best football managerial job in Britain, according to a report…
Celtic has been named number one for being the best football club to manage a new study has found. A report on Football Scotland has revealed that Celtic Football Club are the best of British when it comes to giving their managers time to get it right on the field. On average, the Hoops give the man in the hotseat five years and seven months to yield success – equating to about an average of 2,050 days at Paradise.
Ange Postecoglou is pictured with the Glen’s Manager of the Month award for October at Lennoxtown, on November 10, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Alan Harvey / SNS Group)
The great Willie Maley is the longest serving in the club’s 134 year history. Maley served for forty-five years and ten months as manager of Celtic, beaten only by West Bromwich Albion’s Fred Everiss. Ange Postecoglou is currently Celtic’s twenty-second manager in our illustrious history and hopefully is given time to build something special.
Celtic also sit joint with Liverpool in terms of managers in their entire history, which probably makes sense due to the aforementioned statistic regarding giving managers time. Another finding of the study correlated success and stability together. Effectively this means those who make less changes tend to have stronger foundations for achieving silverware at their footballing institution.
Celtic the ‘best’ and Hibs amongst the ‘worst’ clubs to manage in the UK according to new studyhttps://t.co/2wM4pdFNN8 pic.twitter.com/jwVeqUnr5D
— Football Scotland (@Football_Scot) November 9, 2021
This is obvious when looking at the dynasties that have been built by Celtic throughout their sparkling history. Jock Stein springs to mind immediately and more recently Martin O’Neill – both of whom built imperious footballing sides that made their mark both domestically and in Europe.
Jock Stein manager Celtic FC arm around Bill Shankly Liverpool FC at Billy McNeill testimonial game
August 1974.
Stein, as we all know, went on to complete Celtic’s historical nine titles in a row, whilst achieving unprecedented levels of success in European competition by being the first non-Latin team to win the European Cup. Likewise, O’Neill took a team that had been psychologically battered for a decade previously and built a remarkable side that secured a treble in his first season. This was coupled with a terrific ability to bully European giants at Celtic Park on a regular basis.
We hope that Ange gets the time he deserves to build that dynasty of his own, cementing himself into Celtic folklore. Judging by recent events, he just well might.
