The Celtic manager wants to focus on the things that matter but after starting with four defeats he may not have the chance
Years ago when sport was good, you didn’t have optics. You just had what happened. And what happened was what you had seen happen.
Things are different now. If you haven’t lent into optics when discussing your underperforming team, then you’re missing out. One dictionary definition for you: Optics (1) “The way in which an event or course of action is perceived by the public.”
It appears you do want a coach or manager who doesn’t care about optics. But at the same time, optics are important, because it is all we have to work with when results aren’t in your favour.
But it’s a fine line between the perception of the event, and the event itself. The other optics – Optics (2) “The scientific study of sight and the behaviour of light” – seems like a posh way of saying what you’re looking at, whether you’re watching England’s top order fail to deliver again, Spurs having an xG of 0.000001 or Celtic losing four in a row.
