The celebrations were real and raw, away days are becoming something of a rarity in Scottish football but making up for the loss of trips to Ibrox and Tynecastle the songs and chants boomed out around Rugby Park.
In front of the 3,835 away supporters in the Chadwick Stand the players took a bow before driving up the M77 to be greeted by another welcoming party at Celtic Park.
All the build up about the difficulties of the plastic pitch and two defeats at Rugby Park earlier in the season were blown away in a devastating opening spell in front of 3,000 vociferous travelling supporters who cheered home three well taken goals.
In charge of the Glasgow Derby at Ibrox in April the man from the Crown Bar in Bellshill had a bigger influence on the result than any of the home players.
This club comes out of a financial difficult situation. The club needs for the future to get also money in by producing or making players better, getting young players in and to make them better to sell them.
Those sort of incidents don’t do much for morale, as Lawwell worked on the Balance Sheet towards a pay day of £3.5m of salary and bonus the squad suffered and the manager became disillusioned.
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Clement brings up Rodgers’ comments from yesterday at the end of his Sky interview. Not a light-hearted delivery.
Mohamed Diomanse, as he had done the previous month at Ibrox seemed to have a particular gripe with Reo Hatate, spending the entire match trying to inflict injury on the Celtic midfielder.
Carter-Vickers extended his Celtic contract at the end of January, making it the second deal he had signed in less than 20 months which seems to be the modern way rather than waiting until the last 12-18 months before renegotiating.
Will it be significant? Of course, because we have a lot of contracts ending also. We don’t have unlimited finances, so we need to make the right decisions in the positions and where to spend more and where to spend less.