The snow that closed some of the roads near Celtic’s training ground a week before has melted away and all Brendan Rodgers can see when he looks out of the long window of his first floor office is a sea of green.
The green of the pitches where he works with his players, cajoling and improving them and, beyond, the rugged green wall of the Campsie Fells, rising sharply above Lennoxtown.
It is only 10 miles north of Glasgow but it feels isolated and peaceful, like somewhere you might escape to. Maybe there was something of that in his decision to move here in May 2016, eight months after he parted company with Liverpool.