sugar-coat

"In the long run, I'm really happy. And this is not me trying to sugar-coat drawing after being 2-0 up, it really isn't. What I'm telling you now I told the players. This was really good."

On the night Celtic secured the title last season Brendan Rodgers didn’t sugar-coat his words.

Talking about his condition, Kureshi does not sugar-coat the reality of what he is going through.

“It’s reality. The network did not invite me back. I was fired, for lack of better words. I will not sugar-coat the situation and say, ‘Oh I am walking away and this is a break’ or anything like this.

“Whenever you start up at a program again and it has a rebuilding aspect, you have to sometimes go through a season like that and not make any excuse or sugar-coat it, but you go directly at the things that need to be addressed, and it starts with people,” Cristobal said.