Alex Oxlade Chamberlain shows his class

The Bhoys Ultras brought some of the noise back to Celtic Park  last night in their little corner of the ground. Talks are on going between Celtic supporters and the Celtic board. Let us hope that when we visit Celtic Park next Thursday night for the Stuttgart game that the Green Brigade are back in the North Curve corner of Celtic Park. Not much beats a full Paradise on big European Nights.

Getting all Celtic fans back into the stadium won’t be the answer to all Celtic’s current woes but it will be a step in the right direction at a time when Martin O’Neill and the Celtic players need us united in the stands supporting them home and away.

Last night Celtic should have had the game wrapped up at half time but were so wasteful in front of goal missing chance after chance before Saracchi opened the scoring for Celtic with a cracker of a goal.

Livingston forced Kasper into making a one handed save in the first half but apart from that it was one way traffic. The half time chat over a cup of hot Bovril was of how many chances Celtic had missed. Giving away a penalty which was converted added to the frustration in the second half as Livingston defended with every one of their players camped deep in their own box as Celtic tried to break them down and get the vital win.

As the minutes ticked by super sub Alex Oxlade Chamberlain showed his class with a superb goal. His cameo role and goal got him the sponsors man of the match award I guess they wanted to meet the new bhoy and congratulate him.

There was more drama to come in the bar at Celtic Park after the final whistle when they switched over to the Motherwell v the rangers game. Motherwell down to 10 men were 1-0 down to the visitors before Celtic loanee Stephen Welsh scored the equaliser to become the toast of Celtic Park.

Celtic remain third in the league a point behind the rangers with a game in hand and 6 points behind Hearts. Next up is the plastic pitch of Rugby Park when Celtic travel to take on Kilmarnock for a 2pm kick off on Sunday. Another win is vital if Celtic are to keep up our title dreams.

Hopefully we are celebrating a win and then all eyes will be on the rangers v Hearts game which kicks off at 4:30pm. Points are being dropped by someone or maybe both of them. The Ox and Welsh were the heroes last night and now we look forward to Sunday as the games come thick and fast.

Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast