Celtic element with short tempers condemn him but there's a cruel irony when it comes to The Unforgiven – Hugh Keevins

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Some Celtic fans don’t deserve Brendan Rodgers.And they’ll only understand how true that is when he’s no longer there and they feel a sense of loss bordering on bereavement.

No matter what he does, even going to Italy in the Champions League on Wednesday night and taking a precious point from Atalanta, last season’s winners of the Europa League, Brendan is still condemned to be The Unforgiven by his detractors.Following Celtic’s seven goal dismembering at the hands of Borussia Dortmund, I had a caller on the radio who was representative of the supporter element with long memories and short tempers.

He made the obligatory reference to the manager having once left Celtic for Leicester City to begin with, and then suggested that if Brendan couldn’t tailor his tactics to suit different occasions then Celtic should “Change him.”It was all part of what the manager called an “Assault on the spirit.” When Brendan then dared to rebuke the anti-social element who are inching the club closer to severe action from UEFA over the use of pyrotechnics at European matches social media was ablaze with recrimination.

Brendan had said any refusal to comply with the club’s wishes regarding flares would show the dissident fans didn’t really care about Celtic.The general tone of the complaints made against him was to the effect that supporters wouldn’t take lessons on affection for the club from someone who had once left Celtic in mid-season to take up another job elsewhere.