Brendan Rodgers branded ‘foolishly brave’ over Celtic approach as Simon Jordan emerges as unlikely Dortmund debacle ally

Simon Jordan has emerged as an unlikely Brendan Rodgers ally as he defended the Celtic boss' "foolish bravery" against Dortmund.

The Premiership champions were on the wrong end of a 7-1 thrashing in their first Champions League away clash, with Dortmund going in 5-1 up at the break following a nightmare first half for the Hoops. It's the third time Rodgers has seen his side ship seven in the competition and comes less than a year after a 6-0 drubbing by Atletico Madrid last season.

That's led to accusations of Rodgers refusing to learn tactical lessons when coming up against top tier teams. TalkSport co-host Jordan never normally misses a chance to go after Rodgers, but Jordan offered context to the mauling in front of the Yellow Wall with the damage done in a wild 20 minute spell that left the manager without many options in trying to salvage some pride at half time.

"If you're in the dressing room, bank up and accept a 5-1 defeat because you're going to get slaughtered for losing 5-1 so how do you approach the second half?" he asked. "The result is you get beat 5-1 and you're going to get slaughtered for getting beat 5-1 . If you get beat 6-1, you're going to get slaughtered and you get slaughtered for 7-1.

"Our criticism is that Brendan Rodgers was brave. Foolishly brave perhaps, so we would rather our managers not be brave, make a mistake and then pivot off that mistake. You look at that Dortmund team who have just been smashed 5-1 by Stuttgart and Celtic would've fancied themselves in this game. And so they had a go and get caught in a helter skelter moment of 20 minutes inside a game when they concede four or five goals.

"So I look at it and you can catastrophise it if you want and we can take it back to the past,