Ange Postecoglou is not just a phenomenon in Scotland.
He has been in Australia for a number of years now and it seems only now that in our wee country, the press and other football fans are starting to realise it as well.
Of course, as Celtic fans, it became apparent pretty quickly that we had a special manager on our hands.
From his first interview, Ange talked brilliantly about the game and, of course, his methods in dealing with the press are also a huge feather in his cap.
But as an interview aired in Australia early this morning via Stan Sport Football, Ange opened up on how thinks of the progress so fat at Celtic and it will delight the fans at how he speaks of the club needing success this season, “I mean, there’s nothing too unique there. I think any manager gets a job he usually got in because things aren’t going well.
“Rarely will you pick it up when when when a team’s flying. So that part of it was was kind of I understood it.
“I think every role I’ve taken, I’ve taken when it needed some sort of new direction and I’m comfortable in that space. So from that perspective I kind of knew I was entering into.
“Obviously the magnitude of the club coming off a season when they didn’t mean anything. It’s very easy to kind of say, well, it’s a league they should dominate.
“So at the same time when you’ve come off a season where you’ve won nothing for a big club like this. When it happens at a club like Manchester United, there’s needs to be a massive reaction.
“So I kind of knew the magnitude of what I needed to do.
“It’s been pretty good so far. I’ve had tremendous support from the fans and the support within the football club to sort of take the club in the direction I wanted to.
“And I kind of knew that there was always a ticking clock against me to get it right as soon as we possibly could.
“Because it’s not just for me, I think people sort of thought that I was worried about my own tenure. It wasn’t just that. It was just a football club like Celtic can’t go two seasons without having success.
“It just can’t happen.
“So I knew that I had to get it right this first year and we’re doing okay in the league.
“We’re still in Europe. Got through the Scottish FA Cup yesterday so there is still plenty to do mate, but its going alright.”
And the one thing that was striking about this is the way that Ange speaks about the club and that he knew from the off that success had to be instant. Not for him, but for the fans.
Ange gets it. I’m sure I’ve written that somewhere before but he just does.
He’s steeped in the whole ethos of the club and that is why the Celtic fans have taken him close to their hearts.