Brendan Rodgers has a message for angry Celtic fans

It was one of 1967 champions Celtic’s most humiliating defeats in Europe and they need to turn the tie around in the second leg in Glasgow next Wednesday if they are to progress.

“We had a Catholic priest with us, Father Paul Bear, a very special friend of the club, and he blessed the goal posts for us”.

‘But there is no embarrassment. ‘It was a tough game in tough conditions. We never took our chances and they took theirs.

SW Innsbruck 3-0 Celtic, 1977-78: A late strike from Tommy Burns had Celtic going into the second leg 2-1 up, before the Austrian side took control. It’s a two-legged affair.

“Things must get better, and he will make damn sure that things do”.

“We are getting calls from newspapers in Spain and Italy, there is a huge media interest in the story, and that the players are semi-professionals, some of whom are police officers and custom officers”.

“We could have scored a second, which just grazed the crossbar”, he said. Celtic lost the second leg 2-0 at Murrayfield but were gifted an extraordinary reprieve when Legia inadvertently fielded a suspended player following an administrative blunder.

The Daily Record observed that one of Rodgers’ claims that they weren’t taking the task lightly had come horribly true.

He said: “It was hard, of course”.

They share a 5,000 capacity stadium with the rest of the teams in their league.

“It doesn’t matter the team, the level”.

“But we created enough chances and their keeper made fantastic saves”.

He was quoted as saying by BBC Sport: “We’ve given ourselves a bit of work to do”.

‘You never want to lose the game.

“Celtic fans expect us to get through into the group stages”. What we lacked was the final touch, the final ball. We know where we need to strengthen the squad.

Attacking midfielder Ryan Christie was making his European debut, with last season’s top scorer Griffiths shunted wide on the right.

He said: “I didn’t think that miracles happened but that’s what this is”. We are very much unified as a group.

“This is why we are all so amazed by this result”.

Who on earth was Brendan Rodgers, the new manager of Scottish giants Celtic, trying to kid?

“I really do feel he would have learned about some players tonight”. “We stay calm”, he added. A fearless performance by our lads has delivered a dream result.