Lewis Morgan has reflected on being in the unusual position of playing for Celtic as a Rangers fan.
Signed under Brendan Rodgers in 2018, Morgan would make 31 appearances for the club, being sent away on multiple loans.
He has spent the last six-and-a-half years playing in MLS and is largely a forgotten man in Glasgow, despite his seven Scotland caps.
But he has now spoken candidly about his allegiance, and hinted that there are others who are in his position.
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Speaking to the Daily Record, Morgan said when asked on his Celtic career as an ex-Ibrox season ticket holder: “Yeah, obviously pretty controversial.
“I mean, I was never going to come out and lie and say, ‘Oh, I supported Celtic.’ Scotland’s a goldfish bowl. I would have been outed in five minutes if I said that.
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“I feel like when you’re a footballer, it’s obviously completely different. Your job every day is to try and do the best for the club that is employing you.
“That’s really how I thought about it from a football development standpoint and playing.
“When I was younger, I came through the Rangers academy and obviously wanted to break through there and wasn’t able to do so.
“But I was a season ticket holder my whole life. Then it’s just trying to separate football from the team you support, to you’ve actually got a job to do.”
He continued: “It’s hard to go back and remember exactly what you’re thinking. It was trying to separate the two. What I would say is that naturally Rangers and Celtic are the two biggest clubs in Scotland. of.
“I’m not one of those people that say everyone is on one side of the divide because St Mirren fans just support St Mirren and probably hate when people say, ‘Oh, but who’s your second team?’
“Without outing and saying names, there’s obviously a ton of guys in both changing rooms, Rangers players that are Celtic fans and Celtic players that are Rangers fans.
“It’s impossible to avoid in Scotland when half the people you meet might be a Rangers fan, half are Celtic fans.
“There’s always going to be a crossover there. With me, maybe because I was in the Rangers academy and it was well known that I was a Rangers fan, it probably got a little bit more attention.
“But there’s certainly way more. There are hundreds more that people may not know of.”
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The Celtic career of Lewis Morgan
Morgan immediately struggled to make an impact on the first team, being loaned back to St Mirren and then Sunderland, who were in League One at that time.
Neil Lennon gave him a chance as a makeshift striker in the 2019-20 season, and after goals against AIK and Rennes in Europe, he started the League Cup final against Rangers.
But this start was to be his last at Celtic, as he fell back down the pecking order and eventually moved to MLS, where he has been since.
He was given the league’s ‘Comeback of the Year’ award after 13 goals in the 2024 season.
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