I don’t know why Prem clubs don’t invest in more Japanese/Korean players. They are always technically good and work their bollocks off.
Remember a korean lad at uni..couldn't get near him.
We had two Japanese students who played Sunday league for us, one was absolute quality, the second was decent but, I know its a cliche, I've never known anything like it for how much he could run and run.
We were doing a bleep test one night, he cycled there, warmed up by doing laps of the car park, proceeded to complete the lot, barely out of breath before smiling, waving at us and cycling off home.
Felt like he could have probably done it twice over.
Both these teams step it up a notch when they face each other but Rangers are all over the place tonight. Passing is terrible, out of position just not in it,they have a long road back in the second half, can't see Celtic falling apart either.
As someone who watched his teams play every week when he was in Brisbane I can tell you that he put together an extraordinary team by Australian standards - his team won the league three times in four seasons (although he was only boss for the first two wins).
As a lifelong Charlton fan I can say with some confidence that I have never seen 'my' team play football like Ange had Brisbane playing, it was genuinely impressive and they just passed teams to death and wore them out.
Of course, none of this means he will succeed in Scotland, albeit that the A-League and SPL are probably of very similar standards, a mate of mine here has played in both (and in EFL League One) and told me that outside the Old Firm the quality is very similar to the A-League.
The biggest problem that Ange will have that he is very thin-skinned and doesn't take criticism well at all - just You Tube his on-air row with Craig Foster - so the Glasgow fishbowl may not be the best idea.
He also did very well with the Australian national team, winning the Asian Cup for the first time, and also won the J-League - now THAT is a very good league - in his second season there.
As people learned when Wenger revolutionised Arsenal there is a lot of talent outside our normal areas of purview.
Looks like with the 3-0 win tonight that Postecoglou is doing better than even I thought he would or could, the bloke is a top coach and will go onto much bigger things than Celtic in due course.
Rangers have every right to be furious with Stevie “It’s all about me” Gerrard dumping them mid season to go to Villa - that was a shithouse move from him, but about what you expect these days.
I think it also illustrates how bad Celtic had become under Lennon.
This is true but Gerrard had them well up for games and they were always organised. They conceded just 13 goals in the whole of last season. Under van Bronckhorst they've conceded 6 goals just this week.
Rangers were abysmal, first half was the worst performance I can remember. Changes at half time & Celtic taking their foot off the gas meant a slightly better second half.
Hatate looks a concerningly good player, advantage Celtic
Wasn't even close to full strength Celtic either. No idea why as i've got no allegiance either but i've always much preferred Celtic to Rangers. think it was from watching Henrik Larsson as a kid
Direct qualification to the Champions League for the Scottish Champions is likely for 22/23. Coefficient has been steadily climbing back up after a poor few seasons in Europe.
Rangers will be upset if they’ve done all that work in European competition recently only to lose the automatic place to Celtic.
Wasn't even close to full strength Celtic either. No idea why as i've got no allegiance either but i've always much preferred Celtic to Rangers. think it was from watching Henrik Larsson as a kid
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The speed Celtic pass and get the ball forward is on a different level to anything Rangers are doing.
We were doing a bleep test one night, he cycled there, warmed up by doing laps of the car park, proceeded to complete the lot, barely out of breath before smiling, waving at us and cycling off home.
Felt like he could have probably done it twice over.
absolutely crazy atmosphere anyway, fucking jock lunatics ... madness
Rangers have every right to be furious with Stevie “It’s all about me” Gerrard dumping them mid season to go to Villa - that was a shithouse move from him, but about what you expect these days.
Calm down.
Hatate looks a concerningly good player, advantage Celtic
Great signings in the window by celtic. Their manager knows the J league well.
Rangers will be upset if they’ve done all that work in European competition recently only to lose the automatic place to Celtic.