Manager post Celtic

07/03/01: JC - "I think we gave everything, it was always going to be difficult but I don’t think that we got as bad a beating as we did on Sunday at East End Park."

"We changed our tactics a bit because we had played them quite a lot in the last few weeks. We went four at the back because we were getting hurt by Henrik and Tommy Johnson in the left and right back holes in the week; five in midfield and only one up front. That meant that we changed our personnel – we went for pace and touch which left us vulnerable with the height.

"With Dijkhuizen, Mossy and Bullen not playing we took a chance and it worked against us at the corners although I thought Ruitenbeek made a mistake with the first one. He let Vega get in in front of him and although we put Scott Thomson on Vega, and that is impossible obviously but Marco should have got the first one.

"Misunderstanding at the Scott Thomson goal between Neil Lennon and Rab Douglas. A good finish from Scott to make it 1-1. I think we frustrated Celtic; I think they found it difficult to get through us. Then straight after half time we gave away a corner and Vega scored again. We have been done with two corners and two penalty kicks.

"At our best spell when it was 2-1 they got their third goal. Rab Douglas has had a tremendous save from Scott Thomson; we came out our discipline a little bit and Henrik has got away from Scott Thomson a little bit.

"The referee gives a penalty; I thought in the first instance he wasn’t going to give it but he gave it and I think that killed us off. Then you put four upfront again and play with four at the back. They have space to hurt you; we had a couple of wee chances ourselves but the game was really finished after the third goal.

"We were well beat by Celtic on Sunday but I don’t think there was three goals of a difference tonight. The lads have worked tremendously hard; defended well – that might seem silly when you have four goals against you but four from two corners and two penalties.

"So it is disappointing; we have had fourteen goals against us in three games after our defensive record up to the Tynecastle game being the best outwith Celtic, Hibs and Hearts.

"I think we gave everything, it was always going to be difficult but I don’t think that we got as bad a beating as we did on Sunday at East End Park."

So after Jimmy Calderwood describing Henrik Larsson a pest on Tuesday, how did he now feel about Scotland’s most prolific goalscorer (42 goals)?

"It was two penalties wasn’t it. He did me a favour last time by missing one. I saw him looking up at the screens when he put it in the other corner in that game. He obviously changed his mind but I don’t know if big Marco saw it.

"I don’t think big Andrius and Youssef have played that badly against him but he has scored two penalties and that is what he is paid for. He is a quality player and a quality team. I think we defended far better today than we did on Sunday" What did the Dunfermline manager make of the penalty kick decisions?

"I thought Willie (Young) took a bit of time to decide on the first one from where I was sitting. I was watching it as usual from up in the Directors Box and I thought he was not giving it. But I looked again and he has given it. That was disappointing. You would hope that they would even themselves out throughout the season but I think that is 13 or 14 against and only three for.

"That has killed us off. Referee’s shout it as they see it; sometimes you get them sometimes you don’t."