It’s hard to imagine Ange Postecoglou could actually be further away from his home city of Melbourne than where he is at the moment, preparing his Tottenham side in the hours leading up to the Europa League semi-final against Bodo Glimt at the Aspmyra Stadion in Bodo in the North of Norway, which is located inside the Arctic Circle…
The weather of course will be warmer and it will also be much lighter than on his last visit back in February 2022 when his Celtic side suffered a 5-1 aggregate defeat in the UEFA Conference League.
That would send a shiver down the spine of the former Celtic manager
Memories of that would send a shiver down the spine of the former Celtic manager who aims to negotiate tonight’s tricky tie on a plastic pitch to book a place in the final in the beautiful Basque City of Bilbao where almost certainly Manchester United lay in wait.
Man United take on finalist hosts Athletic Club this evening in the second leg of the other semi-final. The conquerers of theRangers tonight who are 3-0 down from the first leg. It’s not impossible and Celtic of course once lost a semi-final in the Cup Winners Cup (the fore-runner of the Europa League) after winning the first leg 3-0. It happens, but not very often.
Ange at the start if the season noted that he always wins a trophy in his second season aat a club and like Eddie Howe at Newcastle who won the League Cup, Ange Postecoglou should be hailed to the rooftops by Tottenham fans if he delivers them a trophy. Instead he’ll probably get the sack and a better club to manager.
Celtic are used to winning trophies and know a winner when we see one