Rodgers managed to turn the media conference into a discussion that suggested the only alternative to Celtic’s approach was to park the bus. There are far more than two ways to play football. Emery treated Bayern Munich differently to Ipswich, their weekend opponents in the EPL.

Yeah, not bad for a team that doesn’t play good football. I think that’s what we were told last year, wasn’t it? I think that was the accusation. We were too slow and we didn’t play football and we didn’t score enough goals.

A joke, no matter how good or bad from a manager or player is normally lapped up, the reporters laugh back to open up a relaxed discussion that will run on and add to a few easy days of content.

We shouldn’t have been getting into this last week in the position we’re in.