This guy is MAD!!!
SPEAK to Arsene Wenger and Carlo Ancelotti and they will tell you he is one of the best goalkeepers in Europe.
Ask Celtic manager Gordon Strachan and he’ll confirm he wouldn’t swap him for anyone.
But Artur Boruc doesn’t share the same high opinion of himself.
He reckons he’s actually an IDIOT with a STUPID job.
If truth be told, the 28-year-old Holy Goalie has never cared what anyone else thinks of him.
And in a candid interview with a Polish magazine, Boruc confessed he is petrified about his future when he hangs up his gloves.
The madcap Celts No1 has sparked a blizzard of headlines ever since he arrived at Parkhead in July 2005 as an unknown on loan from Legia Warsaw before a £650,000 deal was struck.
If he’s not been winding up Rangers supporters with gestures and ‘God Bless The Pope’ t-shirts, he’s been back in Warsaw having it large without a care who sees him — lighting up cigars, downing beers and snogging his new girlfriend.
But that’s Artur Boruc.
If you want him in your squad you have to accept the baggage that accompanies one of the planet’s top performers.
Boruc, though, can’t understand all the fuss that’s made about him as a keeper.
Asked what the big deal is about football he responded: “I have no idea. I understand that many people find football stupid. Twenty two boys running around. It does look strange.
“To be honest, I believe I’ve got a stupid job.
“Imagine the situation. My son comes back home all dirty. I can’t say anything because he will reply ‘Dad, come on. You roll in the mud every day’.
“We’re idiots. We must be because our mistakes are so visible.
“If my team concedes a goal no one says that it’s the team’s mistake. People say Boruc conceded a goal.
“But when we win a game no one says it’s thanks to a goalkeeper.
“Success always belongs to a group. Failure is usually linked to a goalkeeper.”
Boruc could have at least another 12 years as a keeper IF he looks after himself.
But the £32,000-a-week ace has been slaughtered for months for a perceived weight problem.
A nightmare performance in the 4-2 defeat to Rangers in August highlighted question marks over his conditioning. However Boruc had also endured revelations the same day of his painful marriage split.
When quizzed if boss Strachan ever asks him to lose weight, he said: “Never. As long as I give 100 per cent on the pitch and I do my best, no one complains about me. That’s the rule.
“But there is also another rule — you are as good as your last match. I like those rules.”
Some have wondered if Boruc is even that passionate about his profession, but the interview nailed such talk.
The Polish ace, outstanding at Euro 2008 as his country flopped once more in a major championships, said: “Football is my life. It means EVERYTHING for me.
“Sometimes I think ‘What am I going to do after I retire from football?’. It frightens me a bit.
“What am I going to do without 60,000 people screaming my name?
“It’s scary, but I don’t know if I will be able to live as a 60-year-old man without a life in a fairytale.”
Boruc will never be short of fans — male and female.
He revealed: “I have had a few marriage proposals, but I said no.
“I don’t know why, but there is something in sportsmen that women like. But I don’t consider myself super handsome.
“My body is my work tool. But I don’t care about it that much. I don’t ski or do bungee-jumping and the like.
“I am lazy. I don’t like to read. I am ignorant.
“I don’t have a hobby. I just like to spend some time in my home. I feel good like that. I like my life.”
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/ho...icle1981188.ece ARTUR BORUC has revealed he’s got no pals at Celtic — and he’s HAPPY about it.
The controversial keeper insists being a Parkhead loner suits him perfectly.
Boruc said: “I don’t think it’s a good idea to make friends with people you are playing with. There is no deep friendship between football players.”
Boruc, who needed just 12 days to recover from knee surgery in time to face Aalborg in the Champions League, is rarely out of the headlines.
He was captured during a recent rehab break in Warsaw drinking beer, smoking a cigar and cavorting with his new girlfriend.
Boruc, 28, said he spent hardly any time with his Hoops team-mates and insisted the only player he’s close to is Polish star Michal Zewlakow, who stars for Olympiakos.
And the £10million-rated keeper claims the only reason Celtic have won three-in-a-row titles is because the players are so single-minded.
He revealed: “The only exception in my case is Michal Zewlakow. He is the only footballer I know how to talk to.
“Those times when atmosphere in the team was very important are gone.
“Now at Celtic every player counts on himself.
“Everyone thinks about personal success. Thanks to that way of thinking we win a lot of games."
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/ho...icle1981353.ece
) , now let there be a show when Aberdeen come to visit.
HAIL HAIL ARTUR
HAIL HAIL ARTUR ! 