Sometime a good talking to just doesn’t cut it.
So on Thursday morning a dissatisfied Ange Postecoglou gathered his players around him inside Celtic ’s Lennoxtown HQ and staged an intervention. Still bristling from a second half capitulation to the previous night in Leipzig, Postecoglou decided this was precisely the moment to send out a strong reminder of what Angeball is meant to be all about.
It wasn’t so much the result which was eating away at the big Aussie even though a 3-1 Champions League thumping against the Germans has left him anchored to the bottom of Group F at its midway stage. No, rather it was the manner of the second half performance which drove the manager to distraction. When he demanded that his men showed the courage to stick to the process he felt they were guilty of abandoning it and disappearing into their shells. Intervention required.
