FORMER Celtic Star Thomas Gravesen spoke about his time at Celtic and his relationship with the then Celtic manager Gordon Strachan in an interview with tipsbladet.dk. This was widely quoted in the MSM yesterday but for those who don’t go there here’s what the not great Dane had to say…
“I’ve always been a Celtic fan. I was in Scotland and see Old Firm when Peter Lovenkrands played for Glasgow Rangers.
“I would like to try to play in that atmosphere and I can only say that I have not regretted that. It was a huge club and an incredible team.
“Unfortunately, I ran into an opposition to myself in the form of a coach called Gordon Strachan. His time was unfortunately while I was there. It did not work between him and me.
“He clearly had the best team and yet we did not have to go out and play the field. Gordon was a defensively-minded coach of a world famous club. This corresponds to FC Copenhagen going out to be defensive against Hobro.
“There is no criticism of Hobro, but the budget that FCK has is far bigger. I could not understand why he did as he did at Celtic because we were so much better than the other teams.
“In the few matches we were allowed to, we were much better. It was always, ‘back’, ‘little further back’. I could not understand it and therefore Gordon Strachan and I were ripped apart.
“I remember that I scored a hat-trick against St. Mirren – the only one in my career – and his only comment was ‘remember the defence, we just have to control that’.
“He was nervous about losing, afraid of losing a match as the boss of the mighty Celtic.”
