'I eat it for breakfast, mate': Ange Postecoglou shows his Celtic hunger

Jeopardy can prove the most unpalatable aspect of the game for football followers.

To Ange Postecoglou, it is his sustenance. If the Celtic manager is supposed to be feeling queasy over the potential for his side wobbling in the title race following their Scottish Cup stumble, the memo has been missed. A first defeat in 34 domestic matches in the semi-final against Rangers at Hampden last Sunday ended the club’s hopes of a treble. Potential repercussions have been talked up beyond those immediate consequences. In the form of a posible form slide to be fearful over. Postecoglou, though, would appear to love to feast on such questioning.

The beauty of his trade for him is the demand to demonstrate he has cooked up a team capable of dealing with dicey situations. The club’s Dingwall trip to face a Ross County they required a 96th-minute winner to overcome there in December has been presented as offering food for thought to the cinch Premiership leaders. At least by from those believing there is still something for the Ibrox men in this title race. With Celtic holding a six point gap and 19 goal difference advantage over Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s men going into the post-split fixtures, genuine uncertainty over where the league crown is headed feels slightly confected. That situation would change were Celtic not to win the Highlands before Rangers pitch up in Glasgow’s east end next weekend. It is a possible turn of events hardly causing the 56-year-old to lose his appetite.

“I eat it up for breakfast, mate. No, seriously, I enjoy it,” he said of dealing with any pressure. “It’s why I love what I do. If you know what the outcome’s going to be, I wouldn’t enjoy what I do. The adrenaline of that fine line between success and