The teams were roared onto the pitch. The Europa League anthem played then it all went quiet. Except for 2,500 Roma fans. They sang throughout the match. They had cause to do so.
There are strong reasons for concern but no Celtic fan is fooled by the tag team of Ryan Stevenson and Keith Jackson in the Daily Record.
No introduction to the fans, no Green Brigade, fan media banned as well, the Sunday Mail attack, the board done everything they could to hinder Nancy for his first game.
Instead we have a dirty war with the club turning to their friends at the Daily Record to smear the Celtic support, the Collective in particular.
Once in the door at Celtic last summer as a consultant Tisdale didn’t hesitate to start putting together his empire. Firstly by trashing everything that was in already in place.
The story in the Record is copper bottomed. It isn’t a tabloid flying a kite. The Record put the by-lines of their Editor and News Editor against the story.
Naturally the resignation of Rodgers was one of the subjects brought up. Four days later Cowan decided to discuss the issue on Off The Ball with Stuart Cosgrove, tellingly he revealed that Gordon Strachan expected a December appointment.
The one thing to take from events this season is that the efforts of Nicholson, Lawwell and the Desmond family have created the Celtic Fans Collective. Every move by the club has been an own goal of varying degrees
If he was still at Peterbrough he’d be dropped from the team as a liability. In Scotland Danny Rohl is discovering that he has an extra line of defence. Immune from handball decisions. Much like Goldson.
And who was on VAR duty to help Mr Walsh out? One of his colleagues from Boclair Academy, Grant Irvine, another from the PE Department at that remarkable school in Bearsden.