{"id":395234,"date":"2025-09-03T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395234\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:46:14","slug":"joe-hart-says-celtic-did-something-against-rangers-which-was-unheard-of-in-his-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395234\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Hart says Celtic did something against Rangers which was ‘unheard’ of in his time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You will have to go back into the archives to put forward a much worse Glasgow derby than the one displayed on Sunday at Ibrox. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Rangers can have their excuses<\/a> because they are utter dross, under their current manager, Russell Martin, and for quite a long time before that. <\/p>\n

But Celtic can\u2019t have such excuses<\/a> because they are the champions of Scotland<\/a>, and have been the dominant team on the domestic circuit since the turn of the century. <\/p>\n

Joe Hart<\/a> has played his part in that, following his retirement from the game in 2024, and he couldn\u2019t believe what he was witnessing. <\/p>\n

\"BrendanPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesJoe Hart on Celtic\u2019s lack of firepower<\/p>\n

Hart got a taste of what life was like under Rodgers<\/a> because he played in the Irishman\u2019s first season back as the Celtic manager<\/a>. <\/p>\n

One thing that is always synonymous with Rodgers\u2019 teams is the firepower and strength in attacking talent, but Hart told BBC Radio 5 Live that Celtic<\/a> went into the Rangers game with \u2018zero firepower.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The legendary goalkeeper thinks that was \u2018unheard\u2019 of during his time in Glasgow, as he brought up the names of Daizen Maeda and Adam Idah. <\/p>\n

\u201cWatching it, it was difficult,\u201d said Hart. \u201cIt was a game where Rangers were definitely there for the taking before the game, but even going into it, the kind of atmosphere around it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what Daizen was going to be doing. What went on with Adam Idah? Whether he was coming or going. They went in with zero firepower, which is unheard of in my time there. <\/p>\n

\u201cI always felt, no matter what was going on, there was going to be goals scored, and if the guys on the pitch weren\u2019t going to do it, then someone would get one off the bench. It was almost a certainty that you could play, and knowing you were getting at least one goal. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat game threatened to be aggressive. Threatened to be a few tackles. I don\u2019t know how it felt in the stadium. It only threatened to lift off. It then petered out, and I think both teams thought, \u2018we are huffing and puffing here, and a good result for both is 0-0.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Not a good look\u2019 for Celtic after David Datro Fofana rejection<\/p>\n

Since that much, Celtic have signed Kelechi Iheanacho<\/a> as a free agent, but this comes after the drama around David Datro Fofana on transfer deadline day. <\/p>\n

It was suggested that Fofana turned down the chance to play for Celtic<\/a>, opting to join Charlton instead, but that move also collapsed. <\/p>\n

And when Hart was told of that news, he stated that \u2018it\u2019s not\u2019 a good look to miss out on the Chelsea hitman.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no, it\u2019s not (great for Celtic that Fofana turned them down),\u201d said Hart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You will have to go back into the archives to put forward a much worse Glasgow derby than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,37702,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-395234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-joe-hart","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115141855925142882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395234","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=395234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}