Very few Celtic fans would dream of handing cash over to purchase the Record with the online edition racking up the clicks but barely bringing in the advertising revenue to justify the massive overheads, mainly through the wage bill.
Being physical and athletic will get you a long way in the SPFL but outwith that some basic football ability is required. To describe Bassey as limited is a compliment but like Oli Burke a little talent can be very lucrative when handled by the right agent.
Five minutes in, despite being a goal down, Lowry had the bears purring with a drag-back that left Reo Hatate lying on the turf. Proof of his genius, not that it was really required. Sadly for the watching bears that was as good as things got for their in-house superstar.
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.
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.
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.
There were a variety of set-backs for Kennedy as he attempted to resume his playing career, thanks largely to the surgery undertaken by Dr Richard Steadman in Colorado.