I'm sure he does his best to be a good father and dog walker, but he was way out of his depth being a manager. The writing was on the wall early. I think as fans, it's easy to say "for a man that loves the club so much he should have walked away, the damage he's doing is irreparable". For me, he came across as arrogant, he treated journalists with contempt and I'm not a big a fan of the press. I don't think anyone deserves the vitriol that came his way but unfortunately it comes with the turf being a manager of Celtic and I'll come back to that regarding Clarke. The Celtic board obviously enabled him, maybe he thought that after one horrific display after an another ( almost weekly falling further and further behind) and the board sitting on their arses, he was bullet proof. Maybe that encouraged him. I saw a few rambling press conferences where I thought he had lost the plot. He basically attacked everyone and denied he was responsible for the shit being played on the field pointing fingers at everyone but himself.
I love the word shoogly, there's a pub in Edinburgh called The Shoogly Peg, good little pub across from the Back Cat on Rose street. Bringing back memories. That, and skoosh....love the word skoosh. Speaking of Edinburgh and I don't know if this is common knowledge. On my last visit I was talking to someone who had a kid in the Hibs system, he told me the players hated Lennon, they thought he was a bit of a dinosaur. He had his favorite pets, his idea of team bonding after a bad result was asking the players to go out for a few pints, but hardly anyone would show up. They just couldn't stand the guy. No idea if true. But it kind of confirms what I heard previously.
This is one reason I don't think Clarke would take the job, and this comes as no surprise obviously:
"Still Kilmarnock manager at the time, Clarke was outraged when Rangers fans called him a “Fenian bastard” and roundly denounced the discrimination that accompanied his youth as a Catholic growing up in Ayrshire where, before becoming a professional footballer, he served an apprenticeship as an instrument engineer.
In a rare public display of emotion Clarke, whose family home remains in Berkshire, appeared close to tears as he made his disgust plain. “I wake up every morning and thank Chelsea for taking me away from the west of Scotland,” he said. “I’m so happy my children have grown up not having to understand or live with this.”
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/13/hes-got-something-special-steve-clarke-gets-his-reward-with-scotland
Rafa is a weird one, no idea why he would come to Celtic,. I admit I was totally wrong on Rodgers, I never thought he would go to Celtic. But at least you could point to him being a childhood fan of Celtic and his Irish roots. Rafa? I can't see it, unless he loves plastic pitches, a limited budget, dricht nights in Inverness, and yes, it's the SPL. However, if someone starts printing T Shirts with " Ask Rafa! He can only say "naw"., I'll buy one as long as the profits go towards a salary contribution. I can but dream.