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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,287,968 Views)
Wailer
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Nice shoes.
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3 Sep 2017, 02:34 PM
For the Belfast and Glens fans - Rodgers brother Declan has bought Cheyennes in Carnlough and has intentions of "turning" it into a Celtic pub (to the extent it wasn't before.....) He came home for the opening I hear and they're calling it Rodgers Bridge Bar. Good luck with that.

As for me (like all pretend Irish people ) it's Paddy Diamonds side bar for this bear.

Cheyennes . Sounds like a right cowboy shop. :dadumchhh:
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He committed to that for the NI Hospice that looked after his Mum. - He is some Man. :worthy:
He just gets us. :wub:
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He committed to that for the NI Hospice that looked after his Mum. - He is some Man. :worthy:
He just gets us. :wub:
absolutely

What a guy ...nearly greetin watching it :rocker:
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He just gets us. :wub:
absolutely

What a guy ...nearly greetin watching it :rocker:
He's genuine alright.

Let's hope DD (and his lackey) are equally so.
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Just seen this posted again only this time the camera isn't just pointing at his shoes. :doh:
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Says we did try and sign Paddy permanently but Man City didn't want to sell him.
Edited by nails, 3 Sep 2017, 11:28 PM.
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absolutely

What a guy ...nearly greetin watching it :rocker:
He's genuine alright.

Let's hope DD (and his lackey) are equally so.
:brickwall:

How can, even you, turn this into another PL is a carrrot post?
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It probably isn't the answer a room crammed full of 500 Celtic supporters wants to hear, but it still draws a roar of approval. 'What is your ambition in the Champions League this season?' comes the question from the floor.

Celtic host Paris Saint-Germain and their new £370million strikeforce of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe a week on Tuesday.

'Try not to lose the first game 7-0,' returns Brendan Rodgers. 'We're playing against 11 motorbikes, aren't we?'

Cue laughter and applause as the mass of green and white appreciate their manager's honesty.

'But listen, I want us to be playing European football after Christmas, that's the aim,' adds Rodgers, hinting that qualifying for the Europa League by finishing third behind PSG and Bayern Munich and ahead of Anderlecht might not be the worst outcome.

'The games against PSG and Bayern are going to be great nights. And the one thing I will say is this: having been a manager around the world and inside some of the biggest stadiums, there is a noise at Celtic Park you just don't get anywhere else.'

A flavour of that passion could be tasted here in Belfast on Saturday night. That noise. Rodgers — born and raised about 30 miles north in Carnlough — is back on his home patch, back among the Belfast-based Celtic following of which he once belonged.

There is also one fan of Liverpool, the club Rodgers took to a second-place finish in the Premier League in 2014.

At one point, the Scouser dares to take the mic. There are boos before he starts.

'I would just like to say thank you, Brendan, they don't know how lucky they are. The door at Liverpool is always open.'

The jeers have turned to cheers. 'What's in that beer?' Rodgers replies.

'But thank you. I came as close as anyone there to the holy grail of winning the league. That season, with the fans, it was special.'

Rodgers is here to raise money for the Northern Ireland Hospice. He lost both parents to cancer within a year of each other and is an ambassador for the charity. A Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland youth international, he had a trial at Manchester United at 14 but eventually signed for Reading, where a knee injury ended his playing career aged 20.

Perhaps the best question of the night asks of him, 'Would you swap your managerial career to go back and have a playing career?' 'I wouldn't, no,' he answers, 'because I wasn't very good. My dream was to play for Celtic. My uncle wrote a letter to the club when I was 14 asking them to watch his nephew.

'Billy McNeill was manager at the time and we got a reply saying they'd seen me for Northern Ireland, so they already thought I wasn't good enough! So now I'm lucky enough to manage Celtic — it's my club.'

Rodgers, however, does not fear mentioning the influence on him of a former Rangers man, Sir Alex Ferguson. 'I used to go to United's training ground, the Cliff, for two weeks at a time,' he recalls of his trial.

'But the thing that stands out was that every day I saw Sir Alex. I look back on it as a manager now and think, "Wow, the time he invested in young players".'

Again, it prompts applause. That, however, does not compare to the eruption that soon follows. Talk has turned to Rangers and their return to the SPL.

'Is it better for Celtic and for Scottish football?' the host ventures, 'to have Rangers back as a rival?'

Rodgers replies: 'If you're in a race, you never look back, you always look forward. The only football club I ever worry about is Celtic.'

He was appointed in May last year, seven months after being sacked by Liverpool. His first season brought the domestic treble and, Europe apart, an unbeaten campaign.

'When I came out of Liverpool I needed a break. It was so intense. It was draining. We moved to London just to come away from it,' he says, nodding to his wife, Charlotte, who is in the audience.

'I had offers from England and a couple from China, where the money is very good, and that's tempting for a boy from Northern Ireland. But I had come out of one of the biggest institutions in the world and I had to find that pressure again. I've got that now. With Liverpool you can go away from home and draw and that's OK. But Celtic, you have to win every game. It's a different pressure.'

So what does the future hold?

'I'm 44 now. The idea was to get to 60 and have as many different experiences as possible,' he says. 'I've done a lot already, good and bad.

'But everything was a rush for me when I was younger. I'm settled now. I've happily signed a four-year deal and I would love to see that through. I'm a lucky man. If I wasn't stood on the sideline I'd be in with you guys. I just want to make you proud.'

His audience rise to their feet and switch from football fans to choir members in a beat.

'This is how it feels to be Celtic, champions again as you know, Brendan Rodgers is here for 10 in a row, 10 in a row…' they sing.

Rodgers, it seems, can do no wrong, even if Celtic do lose 7-0 a week on Tuesday.
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Brendan Rodgers says Celtic would have broken their transfer record to sign Manchester City’s Patrick Roberts.

The 20-year-old winger rejoined the Scottish champions on a season-long loan last week, ending a summer of speculation over whether or not he would return to Celtic Park.

Rodgers admits he wanted to make the move a permanent one and was prepared to set a new club record for transfer fee paid, which currently stands at £6million for both Chris Sutton and John Hartson.

‘We would have broken our transfer record for Patrick,’ said Rodgers, speaking at an event in Belfast to raise money for the Northern Ireland Hospice.

‘We wanted to find the deal that would get him back here. But he’s a Manchester City player. We could have offered them £30m and they would have said no.

'They didn’t want to sell. So the best option was to get him back on loan.’ Roberts - an England Under-20 international - won the domestic treble under Rodgers last season and the influence of the manager played a part in him turning down offers from the Premier League.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/Celtic-wanted-buy-Patrick
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Anna Signeul has said Rodgers was the only club manager in Scotland to get in touch and congratulate her on getting the women's national team to the Euros. She's been invited up to spend some time at Lennoxtown as well.

The man is class but this story shows the backward nature of so many involved in the Scottish game. Hopefully Brendan's basic decency rubs off on some of those around him.
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Anna Signeul has said Rodgers was the only club manager in Scotland to get in touch and congratulate her on getting the women's national team to the Euros. She's been invited up to spend some time at Lennoxtown as well.

The man is class but this story shows the backward nature of so many involved in the Scottish game. Hopefully Brendan's basic decency rubs off on some of those around him.
That's class. Fair play to him.
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I love him :wub:
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4 Sep 2017, 08:48 AM
Anna Signeul has said Rodgers was the only club manager in Scotland to get in touch and congratulate her on getting the women's national team to the Euros. She's been invited up to spend some time at Lennoxtown as well.

The man is class but this story shows the backward nature of so many involved in the Scottish game. Hopefully Brendan's basic decency rubs off on some of those around him.
Nice touch, but that story doesn't necessarily show the backward nature of anything. You could just as easily say every other manager is struggling with limited budgets and limited players and busting their baws trying to coach any sense of organisation into them. Women's football might just not be on their radar.
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Anna Signeul has said Rodgers was the only club manager in Scotland to get in touch and congratulate her on getting the women's national team to the Euros. She's been invited up to spend some time at Lennoxtown as well.

The man is class but this story shows the backward nature of so many involved in the Scottish game. Hopefully Brendan's basic decency rubs off on some of those around him.
Nice touch, but that story doesn't necessarily show the backward nature of anything. You could just as easily say every other manager is struggling with limited budgets and limited players and busting their baws trying to coach any sense of organisation into them. Women's football might just not be on their radar.
And Brendan isn't?
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The classy thing to do would be to commend Rodgers on that gesture without using it to put down other people in the game.
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4 Sep 2017, 08:48 AM
Anna Signeul has said Rodgers was the only club manager in Scotland to get in touch and congratulate her on getting the women's national team to the Euros. She's been invited up to spend some time at Lennoxtown as well.

The man is class but this story shows the backward nature of so many involved in the Scottish game. Hopefully Brendan's basic decency rubs off on some of those around him.
Brendan's a good lad.
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"'But everything was a rush for me when I was younger. I'm settled now. I've happily signed a four-year deal and I would love to see that through. I'm a lucky man. If I wasn't stood on the sideline I'd be in with you guys. I just want to make you proud.'

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4 Sep 2017, 10:19 AM
The classy thing to do would be to commend Rodgers on that gesture without using it to put down other people in the game.
Especially considering she hadn't bothered her arse to meet him :lol:
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The classy thing to do would be to commend Rodgers on that gesture without using it to put down other people in the game.
Especially considering she hadn't bothered her arse to meet him :lol:
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Anna Signeul has said Rodgers was the only club manager in Scotland to get in touch and congratulate her on getting the women's national team to the Euros. She's been invited up to spend some time at Lennoxtown as well.

The man is class but this story shows the backward nature of so many involved in the Scottish game. Hopefully Brendan's basic decency rubs off on some of those around him.
Nice touch, but that story doesn't necessarily show the backward nature of anything. You could just as easily say every other manager is struggling with limited budgets and limited players and busting their baws trying to coach any sense of organisation into them. Women's football might just not be on their radar.
Struggling that much they can't even make a congratulatory phone call?
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