Celtic Manager Brendan Rodgers steps off the Celtic team bus at Celtic Park. Celtic v Kilmarnock, Scottish Premiership, 12 April 2025. IMAGO Photo Stuart Wallace, Shutterstock
THE NOTAPRODDYGAL – 7.5/10 – Maybe the most interesting team selection of the season, considering his demeanour after Perth and the indications certain individuals had run out of good grace. Yet with a certain level of surprise, maybe not the individuals we suspected he meant. And as for big Rocky… Well, doubt there’s been such oppression of a Pole since the early 1940s.
🏆 “You’ve got to perform like a champion”
🗣️ “I’ll always fight to the very end for a player”Brendan Rodgers describes Celtic’s response vs Kilmarnock as “perfect” & addresses Greg Taylor’s future after his performance today ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/c5lM5fZhv8
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) April 12, 2025
And if we’re not doing meritocracy, then maybe a common-sense collective to counter favouritism and at least have our record-breaking goalscorer down the middle? Eh, nah. So Brendan is Brendan and we get a bit of bewilderment and a bit of a storming result. And we move onto the big treble-making clash next week still with furrowed brows.
MIBBERY – 3/10 – Gutted. Barely able to talk during that opening half an hour, they did manage to croak a barely credible VAR offside through emotion-racked voices. A tough day at the office for them, in the sweet knowledge it’s going to get even tougher..
OVERALL – 8.5/10 – So with this win we deliver to The Sheep their dream scenario – pump the Zombies out of a title. If ever there was an edge then today’s their day of relish; and ours too as the delightful proposition of two thousand travelling savages degenerates spending a whole day going to and from an event contrived of abject misery for them fills me with unhealthy glee.
Celtic filled me – and you – with sunny glee as the demolition of sleek Deek took less time than it did to sign away their old club for a quid. It was the electrifying reaction of champions to aberration, the rectifying of the Perth collapse of winners’ standards. We may be champions again by the time you read this, or still on the cusp; of that, and a treble. Make sure to savour it. Those magic days are coming again.
Go Away Now
Sandman
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