'One Brendan Rodgers' rang out from the same stand that once housed a banner declaring he was 'never a Celt.'
As a matter of fact, Celtic’s manager raised the irony of it all yesterday as he looked forward to reuniting his club once again tonight against an old and most unwelcome enemy. Having been cheered off the park at Tynecastle on Sunday by an away support which chanted his name, Rodgers was quick to recall a banner being unfurled at the very same end of the very same ground – most probably by the very same fans – not all that long ago.
“As long as the team gets the support then that’s the most important thing. Of course, when you have that connection, like I had the first time when I was here, then it brings everything together. And it’s an amazing feeling. You need that synchronisation. In reality, it seems the opposite applies. Rodgers was asked yesterday if that adds another layer of personal satisfaction to Celtic’s warm and fuzzy picture?
“The want to come back was knowing that people were hurt by that – and I knew it hurt them because of the relationship we had. So the idea was to come back and build that relationship again. “But over time, you realised actually how much it had meant to be here both from a professional perspective and a personal
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