Mick Beale Sneaks in Celtic Excuse During Erratic Interview

MICHAEL BEALE has come after Celtic in his latest interview for the Ibrox club, claiming it’s ‘game on’ and the two squads have the same amount of talent.

Beale cut quite the erratic war cry this weekend. If I took a drink every time he said game on, I’d have been plastered by the end of his comments.

The new Ibrox boss sounded like someone who has been in the job for a year already and looking to light a fire under his players.

If he thinks Celtic players won’t see these comments and think, ‘hold on a minute’. Celtic won the league last season with a brand new squad; they deservedly took a nine-point lead into the World Cup break. To suggest parity between the two sides is quite disrespectful to the current Scottish Champions.

Speaking to Football Scotland, Beale ranted: “If I didn’t think we could do it with this group of players, I wouldn’t have come back. By that, I mean everybody that’s available in our squad. If you write our squad down and put it next to our biggest rivals’ – OK then, it’s game on. Game on.

I’m watching the World Cup right now and there are teams who are committed, together and beating sides outside their means. So if you put our two squads together? Game on.”

We then have Beale getting his first excuse in, claiming Celtic have had more spending power. Now, why would that be? Why would the mighty Ibrox side be financially dwarfed by their bitter rivals?

“In terms of resources, their spending power has been slightly bigger than ours. But it’s game on. We’re not the have’s right now. In that particular battle, we’re the have-nots, slightly. So game on.

“Let’s go, but we need everyone fit and together. The small wins for me at the moment will be around: ‘Are the players happy, do they know what they’re doing and are they training well’? If I can’t get those three things right, we’re knackered.”

There’s nobody at Celtic taking anything for granted when it comes to the Scottish Premiership title. If Beale hopes to capitalise on complacency at Celtic’s end, he’s going to fail. We have all witnessed what happens when Beale’s side is the chaser and we’re playing real football with fans in the stadium.

Celtic welcome the chase, we’ll leave Mick to get his ‘game on’