Yesterday’s match was barely a contest with Hearts hardly able to muster up the level of aggression that Naismith managed as a player when he put the boot into anything in green and white before inevitably being substituted with his side losing.
That move and the execution set the tone for what was to come. Celtic played some exquisite football that their hosts had no answer to.
Even poor Hearts teams have managed to make things hostile for Celtic at Tynecastle, today’s side seemed afraid to get involved in case their opponents moved up a gear.
Eleven Celtic title wins over the last 12 years have almost broken the spirits at the BBC Sports Desk with Kenny Macintyre. Tom English and Alasdair Lamont visually and mentally scarred by covering those events.
But it is great to see the gaffer back in the building and we have all really enjoyed working with him. So it is new faces, new tactics and a new start for the team. We have to push on.
Fans often discuss and demand recruitment at their club, over the coming windows Mark Lawwell has to double up on removing players, a first team squad of 25 seems more than adequate, currently Celtic have around 40 players in their first team pool.
An appearance at St Roch’s on the way back from Santa Ponsa hard to pick fault with. On the back of the Daily Record’s Liel Abada fantasy Rodgers took the winger out for dinner to round off his busy Sunday.
Sutton covers Scottish football for Sky Sports and the Daily Record, within the space of nine months at Ibrox Cantwell has lost four times to Celtic. In both cup competitions at Hampden and in the SPFL at Ibrox and Celtic Park. It seems that the Ibrox ace is sensative to…
Liam Scales was the main focus of this week’s Celtic TV interview although Rodgers also discusses the away ticket allocation at Tynecastle, facing Diego Simeone in the Champions League and dropping in on St Roch’s after starting his Sunday in Mallorca.
Michael Nicholson and the board took a vow of silence on the issue, as did the Green Brigade for 30 minutes in a home match against Livingston that finished goal-less.