Ange is used to daft questions from the media. He takes at least one in every pre or post match interview that he takes and he expertly bats them away.
Which is why you wonder at the insistence of reporters not thinking through their questions properly before they ask the Celtic manager for an answer.
After last nights 2-0 win over St Mirren, Ange Postecoglou was taking questions from BBC Sportsound’s Kenny MacIntyre about the match when the BBC journalist asked not one, but TWO rather bizarre questions of the Celtic manager:
MacIntyre: “Ange, I don’t know your thoughts tonight on that game. I have seen some fantastic matches this season, that’s certainly wasn’t one of them. That was a hard watch at times. That fair?”
Postecoglou: “Well it depends what you are looking for?
“Maybe you are disappointed at the way it went mate. So I’m not really sure.
“We won a game you know. They didn’t create anything. I think we dominated the football and it’s not hard when the opposition sit so deep.
“If anything, we where good today. We were solid. We stayed composed. We did what we had to do to wear down an opposition that were, as I said, sitting deep. Defending well.
“They haven’t conceded many goals this year apart from us. I thought we kept our composure well.“
MacIntyre: “That’s what I was trying to get to.. Was the tactics of St Mirren, was that as negative as you’ve seen at Celtic Park this season?”
Postecoglou: “Nah I don’t think it’s negative. I think that’s how most teams will try and set up against us.
“You can’t understand that. The longer they stay in the game but, I guess, from our perspective, we didn’t feel the threat, sort of going the other way, which allowed us to stay composed
“The key for us was not to get sidetracked by any anxiety that we hadn’t scored and just to play our football and wait for the opportunity to come.
“I thought once we scored we had some good chanced to score a second goal and in the end, the boys done a good job.”
A completely bizarre, but not unexpected, line of questioning by MacIntyre that Ange unfortunately has gotten all too used to.