THIS international break has come at the right time for Ronny Deila. The Celtic manager is a little frazzled.

By the time the Norwegian walked into the press room at New Douglas Park after his side’s 2-1 win over Hamilton Academical, he was his usual charming self, happy enough with his lot as he reminded everyone in the written press that Celtic have actually made a better start to this season than the last.

A few minutes after he left, word reached us that Deila has “gone off his head” on BT Sport during an interview. In his ever-so-polite Scandinavian terms, his rather mild rebuke to a, it must be said, legitimate question about his team’s defence was the equivalent of that time Jim McLean punched someone.

Deila doesn’t do angry like Scottish people, but while all season his defenders have been far from great, I do get why he could lose his cool over what he would perceive to be journalists questioning him on the bad things after what was after all a win.

Unfortunately for the Celtic manager, his team winning on the domestic scene is not news. Celtic making mistakes is. They won’t stop the presses on the New York Times when they hear that the richest club in Scotland by a country mile managed to see off Hamilton who ‘boast’ the Premier League’s smallest budget.

But that isn’t Deila’s fault. It’s not his doing that Rangers aren’t around, neither are Hibernian and Hearts dropped out of the top tier for a year, as if he or anyone would knock back the Celtic job because there aren’t any Old Firm games any more.

Deila is being judged more on the defeats than the wins, which is both understandable and unfair all at the same time.

If he does win a Treble, far from a given, there will still be some fans who are going to say; “Aye, but he made an a*** of the Champions League.”

The man is damned if he wins by lots and damned if we wins by the odd goal. This is Celtic 2015; Shane Meadows should make a film about it.

In saying all that, something does need to be done about his team losing so many soft goals.