Source: Team_Talk
Strachan has sympathy for Mowbray
The Hoops travel to Rugby Park for the Active Nation Scottish Cup quarter-final tie with Kilmarnock 13 points behind SPL leaders Rangers and knowing that the cup probably offers their only chance of glory this season.[LNB]After weeks of media attention on Mowbray, the former Hibernian and West Brom and Hibernian boss snapped at the pre-match press conference yesterday accusing the press of "spin".[LNB]Middlesbrough boss Strachan picked up six trophies in a four-year reign when he followed the equally successful O'Neill and he believes the internet has added to the pressures that his successor is currently having to endure.[LNB]"It's only Martin O'Neill and myself who can truly empathise with the Celtic manager because the internet and other outlets now are so huge and varied," he said.[LNB]"It's maybe only since Martin's time in charge that it has got to be this huge monster.[LNB]"There are things which happen on the internet and in the media, and you have no real answer to them.[LNB]"You just have to sit back and accept it's there. There's no-one to sue a lot of the time.[LNB]"I would never go anywhere near this stuff. But it's not actually you that reads it on the internet, it's the media who see it there.[LNB]"They then bring things to the fore, leaving you to ask: 'Where did that come from?'[LNB]"As Celtic manager, you protect yourself by ignoring it. That's all you can do."[LNB]Strachan won the SPL title and the Co-operative Insurance Cup in his first season at Parkhead.[LNB]However, he needs no reminding of the tricky start to his Celtic career.[LNB]"I know what it can be like right at the start," he told the Evening Times.[LNB]"We drew 4-4 with Motherwell a few days after losing 5-0 in Bratislava, and I don't know if you can get any lower than that.[LNB]"In these moments, as anyone will find, it determines your character as a manager.[LNB]"Early in your career as a player, you will get these moments where you think, this is as low as it gets.[LNB]"But you come back from it. Somehow you get up and go again. You also do that as a manager."[LNB]Celtic midfielder Marc Crosas accepts the pressure that comes with playing for a top club.[LNB]The Spaniard said: "Of course we have the pressure on us but we always have that.[LNB]"When you play for Celtic you have the demand to win all of the games and to win trophies.[LNB]"The way it's been going this season, the cup is maybe the only chance we've got to win a trophy.[LNB]"So we will have to try and do our best to get to Hampden."[LNB][LNB]
