The latest Brendan Rodgers controversy to hit the headlines just sums up some of the Scottish media’s attitude towards Celtic this season.
After the Celtic manager shut down an aggressive flow of questions from BBC reporter Jane Lewis and stormed out of an interview, it seems that Rodgers‘ sign-off with ‘good girl’ has now labelled the Hoops boss as some sort of misogynistic monster.
Let’s just forget the fact he addresses the male reporters as ‘good man’ or ‘good lad’ to fit the narrative here and how Lewis aggressively pursued the Celtic manager when he quite clearly stated he didn’t want to answer her line of questioning.
However, Chris Sutton has now jumped into the debate and whilst he disagrees that Rodgers’ comment was sexist, the former Celtic hero admits that it was a poor choice of words.
And whilst the Celtic manager probably should know that anything he says is under intense scrutiny, I bet he wasn’t expecting this kind of furore.
I could understand if Rodgers told Lewis she had no business reporting on football like a certain Joey Barton has been doing but he didn’t. He simply told her the interview was over and that he had had enough.
And these Celtic fans agree:
So in the many interviews that Brendan has said "good man" or "good lad" that's not an issue? …much ado about absolute nonsense from the usual sources…carry on regardless brendan
— 88Strand (@Stephen43009330) February 26, 2024
Yet Jane Lewis has said nothing 🤔Another manufactured grievance by a Scottish football press habitually anti-Celtic, anti-Catholic, anti-Irish. Yes we're going to listen to them. Remind me again, how many Catholics are actually employed by the Ulsterman at Pacific Quay?
— Slimshady (@Slimshady1961) February 26, 2024
You know as well as anyone Chris. There are many in Scotland including the BBC that hate everything Celtic and will intentionally drag this out as something when it's clearly nothing.
— 🇵🇸 (@SpookyHoops67) February 26, 2024
Whole thing is a complete farce 🤣🤣
— Velocity (@chivs1O5) February 26, 2024
A actually can’t believe it
BBC interviewed him he ended the interview with good man 🤣
He wasn’t under pressure, he was irritated by a journalist who, prior to the game, had misquoted him.
— Beagle Barmy (@neilmacadee) February 26, 2024
