Darren O’Dea has spilled the beans on his jacket swap with James McFadden.
On the Sky Sports broadcast of Celtic’s win over Falkirk on Saturday, observers quickly noticed that the pair were wearing coordinated outfits.
A post on X from @Quinny3001 on X quickly went viral, asking the pair to swap jackets after the upcoming ad break.
Hilariously, they did it — so how did it come about?
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Darren O’Dea: James McFadden asked me to swap jackets
Speaking on Open Goal, Si Ferry joked that O’Dea and McFadden were “such a laugh”, to which the Irishman replied: “I know, the two most dour guys in the world!
“It was just a bit of fun. Someone tweeted or something.
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“He said, ‘do you want us to change?’ I said, ‘I’ll do it, but as long as we don’t speak about it’.
“But it became a thing. I didn’t think it was a thing. We got a bit of stick because we’re in the… Obviously, the opposites…
“When we came, then we’d done the pre-match, and I think there was a tweet, and then someone said, ‘Do you want to do it?’
“I was like, yeah, let’s do it. But then after the game, we knew it had blown up, and I was like, do you want to switch trousers!?”
It’s nice to get an explanation for an incident that got the nation talking…
On the broadcast, O’Dea was visibly stressed by Celtic’s performance, eventually saying that he “just wasn’t going to analyse” the team’s performance as long as they win.
Of course, by this, he means that results are better than performances — but that’s nothing new. Ultimately, Martin O’Neill’s men deserved their win on the day.
As the ex-manager of the B team, O’Dea was involved at Celtic until this season, vacating the role of Player Pathways Manager for Shaun Maloney.
He left Glasgow to become assistant manager to Alan Sheehan at Swansea City, ironically replacing Mark Fotheringham in the role. He left shortly after Sheehan’s dismissal in November.
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