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The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast

The Press Gang – Alistair Johnston

The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast

The Cynic | A Celtic FC Pod

Sports, Soccer

4.8676 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Press Gang is a podcast that presents the audio from Celtic press conferences that The Cynic attend.

Today we present to you yesterdays Press Conference featuring Alistair Johnston.

Keith McGinty was in attendance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Congratulations, all the signing for Selti.

0:25.6

Thank you.

0:26.6

I read an article recently which mentions some of the challenges you faced in the early stages of your career.

0:32.6

Your mum was quoted as saying that you're not the type that gets setbacks and takes them pretty easily.

0:38.4

You use these knots to fuel your fires, she says.

0:42.1

Can we share some of the challenges that you're faced to get here?

0:45.6

And what new challenges do you foresee that you have to overcome?

0:48.6

Well, that's quite a nice thing for my mom to say.

0:52.4

No, there's been a lot.

0:53.6

Honestly, I was a late bloomer, so often throughout my childhood, got told no a lot, got

1:00.3

told that wasn't good enough, wasn't big enough.

1:03.0

It had to kind of take a different pathway than most players that probably play for Celtic.

1:08.1

You know, I've kind of gone the road less ventured to a degree. But I think, again, you know I've I've kind of gone the road less ventured to a degree but I think again

1:14.2

you know if you have a love for the sport you have a passion for it you're not really

1:18.5

willing to take no as an answer which I wasn't just because I love the sport so much

1:22.3

you know good things happen so all it takes is one person to say yes and give you a chance

1:26.5

and that's kind of been you know the, the, almost I'd say the MO of my career.

1:32.4

It's just so far my young career, it's that I've just kind of rolled with the punches and kept going.

1:40.0

And yeah, even if a lot of people said, no, you don't belong, you don't deserve to be here,

1:44.9

you just keep going, keep grinding away at it.

1:47.0

And, you know, normally good things happen to people who work hard.

1:50.5

And that's kind of been what my career's been about so far.

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