Ange Again Shows That At Celtic All The Motivations Are Sound.

There is a lot right at Celtic at the moment. So much so that you would be easier identifying what is wrong right now with our club. The whole thing is buzzing along in a way that it’s never been before and the results are astonishing to see.

Ange did his Friday presser yesterday and as per usual he had to listen to a true litany of nonsense questions. But he handled it, as ever, in a perfect fashion. The man is unflinchingly cool, calm and collected even when the questions are daft.

Even when the questions are downright offensive, in some ways.

But before all that, Sky aired an interview in which he was flat-out asked if he considered this weekend’s game some kind of grudge match, and if one of his motivations going into it was for “revenge.” Ange actually laughed at the suggestion.

“It’s another tough game,” he said “and we haven’t treated any game like that. We were disappointed with the outcome that day. We didn’t play well and the opposition did. We dealt with that a couple days after when we did our reviews and away you go to improve. Since then, our football has improved immensely, results and performances on a weekly basis have been consistent. We want to finish the season strong so it’s another good challenge.”

Revenge? That does not hold the least interest for this guy. He knows how futile that is; this is three points like every other week, and revenge is a motivation that only applies to spiteful nasty people like the guy across the city.

This is the quality of Ange Postecoglou. All St Mirren did was beat us, and they did it well and they did it clean, and that man respects them for it. This is not a manager who is ever going to say “these are teams we should be beating” or anything casually disrespectful like that, unlike some other bosses in the league who have said all that and more.