But character assassination and abuse from his own fans, and others from outwith the football-related media, is another matter. Rodgers can mull that over while addressing if his team have what it takes to overtake Rangers in the league.
A good Rangers team back then, 92 minutes on the clock. It wasn’t the best of games and I ended up chipping Stefan Klos from – it always gets further out – 35 yards in the end to win the game.
Flights from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick touch down in Palma in under three hours with Santa Ponsa just a 30 minute drive from the airport to what is assumed to be a green and white enclave.
Eventually the comic figure that is Charles Green appeared on the scene, a gobby ‘businessman’ from Yorkshire with no obvious wealth who sang like a canary about how he would put the world to right and knock Barcelona and Real Madrid off their perch as the biggest clubs in the…
Rather than deal with the refereeing and security issues directly Celtic turned to their favourite tactic, telling their media pals how really really angry they were while knowing that neither Nicholson or Peter Lawwell would dare to say a word against the SFA.
Today the SFA admitted that their star referee is incompetent, in-between times they rubber-stamped the man from the Crown Bar in Bellshill to take charge of Sunday’s Glasgow Derby.