Scottish Premiership
The Warm Up: Stuart Kettlewell, Charlie Mulgrew and Steven Naismith talk Celtic’s Champions League exit, the stresses of management and bakery shifts
This week on The Warm-Up, Stuart Kettlewell and Charlie Mulgrew are joined by co-pilot Steven Naismith and host Gordon Duncan.
Off the back of Celtic’s exit from the UEFA Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich the guys dissect Wednesday night’s action. Stuart also opens up on his decision to leave the role as Motherwell manager, whilst the panel delve deeper into the pressures behind being a manager in the SPFL. Steven Naismith also tells us he’s taken up baking in his spare time, with a first shift tomorrow morning.
The full episode is available on the Warm-Up YouTube channel and can be found here.
Brendan Rodgers making his mark in Europe
Charlie Mulgrew said: I think you can’t deny the last time he was here, and when Ange was here, they never did that, but this year you can see a clear progression. Although it’s not the last 16, he’s got to a play-off that nearly got there.
Steven Naismith asked; “Is that the new success, getting to this stage, or is there success further along?”
Mulgrew replied; “In the Champions League? It’s a big ask isn’t it. Last night’s a huge performance, nobody would have ever said that, everybody then saying, ‘hold on a minute, imagine we’d got through, where could Celtic get to?’”
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No regrets for Stuart Kettlewell
Stuart Kettlewell said: “I need to believe in what I’m doing 100%, everybody needs to be on the same bus going in the same direction and I have to stress, there were good supporters in amongst that as well, I had the full backing of the staff and the players, no doubt about that whatsoever.
Sometimes you get to a bit of a cross-roads, and you have to make a decision, I stand by my decision.”
The gamble of change
Steven Naismith said; “We’re in a world where past successes don’t carry weight. You can be successful, really good. Man City dominated for the last five years, but very quickly people go; is that it? As if we need to wash our hands, the next one’s going to be much better, when really, that’s as big a gamble as not (changing things).”
Naismith’s new career?
Asked about his plans for the rest of the week, Steven Naismith said; “Doing my bakery shift tomorrow, Big Bear Bakery, doing my bread shift.”
Gordon Duncan followed up to ask about the start time, to which Steven replied;
“6:30am! I love it. When I was out of work, what can I try and do which is so different to what I have been doing, and I enjoyed it! If I like it, I’ll hopefully get asked back!”
