![]() If you thought McGregor's ego had grown to the level of Greek mythos prior to UFC 194, we are surely beyond the parable of Icarus and the sun by now. MCGREGOR BOXES TRASH TALKER SKINAnd yet while it's generally agreed that most trash talkers do so to build themselves up or get under the skin of another, it's unclear whether McGregor is simply talking or whether he actually believes the hyperbolic statements he makes. What is perhaps most surprising about McGregor is that his words bear the same acerbic wit as his punches, able to verbally spar with his rivals in a manner reminiscent of Muhammad Ali. Make no mistake, I am cocky in prediction, confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat." I have nothing but respect for these competitors. I have no emotion toward them at the end of the day I'm on my journey," McGregor said. I cannot hate a man that has the same dreams as me. It was weird to me that he was like, ‘I've never hated a guy as much as I hate this guy in my life.' To me that's weird. Long before he'd taken the interim featherweight belt he took a few moments following his win at UFC 178 to offer Dustin Poirier praise. If McGregor has been consistent in his pernicious pre-fight ad hominem attacks on his opponents, he has been equally conciliatory in victory. The true greats will always overcome adversity. I wish him and his loyal team well on their journey back. "Respect to a great champion in Jose Aldo. "To the naked eye it was 13 seconds, but to my team and my family it has been a lifetime of work to get to that 13 seconds," he wrote, before offering a mea culpa to Aldo. Later, on Facebook, the Irishman gave a heartfelt analysis of his great accomplishment: Perhaps the truest glimpse of the real McGregor was seen when running the UFC 194 post-fight press conference by himself, offering praise to his vanquished foe whom he'd spent most of the past year slagging off. The fire in his eyes burn down to coals, his eyelids droop in relaxation, he seems to breathe more freely and his words are refreshingly honest. His call for Kent to play in midweek because he’s the club’s best hope of getting something from the game is far more revealing than he seems to be aware.The best moments of the "Notorious" Conor McGregor can be seen after the war is over and the dust has settled. No tactical change will reverse that situation. What Jackson fails to understand is that against a vastly better standard of opposition than they’ve faced before they are reduced to cannon fodder. If he changes that style now, then the three games that follow will result in ever more savage beatings. It’s what got them to their European final last season. Van Bronckhorst’s side has been constructed to sit in and play counter attacking football. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ibrox’s team has been trying that strategy out how far has it gotten them? Jackson’s answer to that is that they should try and be more attacking … again, this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of football which is breath-taking in a career sports journalist, albiet one of limited intelligence and with no formal qualifications. Sitting back against these teams will get you destroyed. The man’s own words are clear he adopts this system for his team because it works. They can watch the same performance as the rest of us, the same performance as the manager, and conclude that the result is explained by A-B-C when, in fact, it was explained best by X-Y-Z.Įvery one of these armchair experts thinks they know more than our manager does, but when they can’t even decipher his after-match comments and his own analysis of the game, when he laid all that out in plain English, they clearly aren’t qualified to critique him or the system he has chosen to play. This proves, again, that the Scottish press does not fundamentally understand the game they are supposed to cover. Perhaps these hacks are simply deaf, or just too stupid to get it, but Ange himself spelled out the reasons for his anger the team did not play in the style he is trying to get them settled into.įar from being too gung-ho – which is what so many of these lazy hacks have concluded was the problem what game did they actually watch? – Ange’s frustration was high because we didn’t play enough according to his principles. The manager has been clear – he has been unequivocal – in his denunciation of that performance in Germany. Let’s start from the first of his barmy contentions, that Celtic is a limited team and that Ange simply refuses to accept it. Aside from this, he’s also the latest to fantasise that Callum McGregor’s absence could be a catastrophe this team might not be able to recover from. ![]()
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