article_snippet.sent: People are insecure and that’s a hard time for the coach and the players.
article_snippet.sent: Even for a manager who had been steeped in the nuances of Scottish football, such a period would have been troubling enough.
article_snippet.sent: ‘One thing is the language, the culture is another and then you have to know new opponents, your own team, understand what Celtic is all about and Scottish football.
article_snippet.sent: and then you can meet hard games and hard periods.
article_snippet.sent: However, faced with a dressing room full of strangers, a league and a country
article_snippet.sent: But I didn’t know anything about Scottish football.
article_snippet.sent: I’d had a full season with my old club and five days later I was ready for Celtic.
article_snippet.sent: so it takes time to get to know more than four names in the squad then bang, you’re in Champions League and playing games all over Europe
article_snippet.sent: It’s so important to understand if you go back to the big managers they had before, Neil (Lennon) and (Gordon) Strachan and Martin (O’Neill), they also struggled in the beginning.