{"id":24891,"date":"2025-04-16T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24891\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:49:07","slug":"charlie-mulgrew-makes-surprise-admission-after-celtic-hero-quit-management-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24891\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Mulgrew makes surprise admission after Celtic hero quit management role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Charlie Mulgrew has opened up on his first foray into management after his sudden departure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Celtic hero took his first steps into management when he was appointed by Scottish League One side Kelty Hearts, but only lasted 12 weeks before Mulgrew decided to call it quits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His final game in charge was a 6-0 hammering against Dumbarton \u2013 who had already been relegated.<\/p>\n

Now, a week on from his exit, Mulgrew<\/a> has revealed how he really felt about his first time in the dugout.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesCharlie Mulgrew hated his time as Kelty Hearts manager<\/p>\n

Despite working under the likes of Neil Lennon<\/a> in his career, it seems as if the managerial path was never the right one for Mulgrew.<\/p>\n

He only won one of his 11 games in charge of the club and in an honest reflection of his brief stint in the dugout on the Open Goal podcast, the 39-year-old admitted that it wasn\u2019t for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a weight off my shoulders. A good feeling to get it done, the Bhoys icon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s weird because you spend the last five years, seven years of your football career, starting to plan, think what you want to do. Until you\u2019re actually in it and doing it, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re getting yourself in for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is, I didn\u2019t enjoy it. I didn\u2019t enjoy all of it. It was only part-time, so I think to myself, you go into a career and you want to get to the best, you want to go as high as you can.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think if I\u2019d gone full-time, how would I feel? I couldn\u2019t think of anything worse now than becoming a full-time manager.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mulgrew had doubts early on about life as a manager<\/p>\n

11 weeks is a short time \u2013 even for a football manager. Three weeks is an even shorter time to realise you\u2019ve made a mistake.<\/p>\n

But, the former Hoops defender wasn\u2019t afraid to admit that he knew the manager\u2019s life wasn\u2019t right for him early doors.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt\u2019s not until maybe three or four weeks before I actually resigned where I started to question \u2018now you know what the job is, are you enjoying it?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s hard times in every job, we\u2019ve all come through a football career where you remember the good times but there so many hard times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to weigh up whether, is it something that I want long term? Best case scenario, in 20 years, do I want to go in 20 years and life this life for 20 years?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Mulgrew has opened up on his first foray into management after his sudden departure. The Celtic hero…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[15304,94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-24891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-charlie-mulgrew","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114347964153863806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}