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The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast

The Press Gang – Matt O’Riley

The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast

Christopher Gallagher

Sports, News, Soccer

4.9678 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 20 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 Celtic’s version of the Press Conference featuring Matt O’Riley.

Lewis Laird was in attendance.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The The Hi Matt, and I wonder if you could give us some feedback on your thoughts on the intensity of the Scottish game you've had,

1:00.2

and some the Glasgow Derby and the big matches away at Harts and Aberdeen and obviously a last-minute winner against Dundee United or 10 men.

1:05.2

And it's the intensity and maybe the standard of the Scottish game surprised you?

1:13.5

I wouldn't say the standard sucks surprised me too much.

1:17.0

I think the intensity of the way we play as a team

1:19.9

has probably been the thing I need to adjust to most.

1:22.6

I've come from a team which isn't so much of a non-stop pressing team as such, which we kind of are.

1:29.3

So in that sense, I think that's been the biggest transition for me to get used to physically, mostly.

1:35.3

In terms of opposition, yeah, I think some games are definitely more intense than others.

1:39.3

I think Hartz was really intense just purely because of the atmosphere as well.

1:43.3

And things like that have been a bit different.

1:46.0

I think fans especially, it's been another massive change for me because we've obviously

1:50.0

got 60,000 pretty much every game when I'm used to playing previously in front of a lot less than that.

1:55.0

So I wouldn't say the overall standard has been something I felt uncomfortable with. But I think the level of obviously our team Celtic is significantly higher, which you'd expect.

2:06.6

Yes.

2:08.6

Thanks, David.

2:09.6

Hamish.

2:10.6

Hi, Matt. Congratulations on the fast start you've made to life at Celtic.

2:16.6

I've watched a lot of your interviews, Matt,

2:18.9

and something you comment on quite a lot is the playing style and Celtics playing style

2:24.3

being suited to your own playing style. Are you able to expand on that at all? And also,

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