The petted lip was out, TikTok seemed to walk off in slow motion, there was no eye contact with Clement before he kicked out at an object in the dug-out. The Poundland Jack Grealish deserves more respect than that.
This world class club is once again out of European football before Christmas, missing out on the embarrassing record of not having won a knock-out tie since season 2003/04, the season that Lawwell got his feet in the door as the £248,941 pa CEO on a turnover of £69m.
Selling Jota and Carl Starfelt at the same time as Aaron Mooy retired has trimmed quality from the squad. Injuries to Reo Hatate, Liel Abada and Daizen Maeda has left Rodgers with just four or five reliable performers forced into carrying others that are miles short of the standard required.
James Forrest, a scorer in 2019 against Lazio, wasn’t in the squad for Saturday’s draw with Motherwell but Rodgers confirmed that the winger will play tomorrow night.
Lennon fronted that up, repeatedly telling the media how bitterly disappointed he was while hanging on for a pay out rather than earning a scrap of respect from resigning.
Prior to the shirt pull Sam Lammers had blocked Gartenmann as he moved to track the ball, an incident that Dallas decided to overlook, as did Walsh.
Concretely, the traditional club Celtic must also continue to be interested in Kvistgaarden with the prospect that in 2024 Celtic will bring in one or more new players for the offensive.
Strangely, or maybe not there wasn’t a single question about the January war-chest, the exciting signings that the Belgian has identified to add to the squad, to put his stamp on things.
A recent match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund included two errors over 90 minutes, according to the SFA an error occurs in one match out of 135!
The SFA have no such controls for Scottish football which has resulted in the Lanarkshire and Glasgow Referee Associations supplying most of the officials involved in top level matches with other areas virtually written off.