WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES

What a difference a week makes in football. Celtic bounced back last Saturday from the shock defeat away at St. Johnstone with a dominant 5-1 win over Kilmarnock at Celtic Park. The Celtic players have been accused of starting too slow in recent games but they came out of the traps quickly in the lunchtime kick off.

As expected Brendan Rodgers shuffled the pack and dropped a number of players who had under performed in Perth v St. Johnstone in came Idah, Scales, Forest and Taylor  and out went Jota, Kuhn, Trusty and Schlup. We had plenty to cheer about in the stands Maeda, CCV, Hatate (Twice) and substitute Ralston had us off our seats on 5 occasions.

Kasper was back at Celtic Park in the main stand watching the team take another giant step towards title number 55 and 4IAR. Reo’s first goal & CCV goal could be contenders for goal of the season. Both were crackers and were talked about later that night as we hosted the More than 90 Minutes Annual Charity Dinner in Glasgow. A big shout out to everyone who joined us on the night.

At half time it was 4-1 and the job was done the second half failed to live up to the excitement of the first half but it was great to see Tony Ralston getting a late goal to put the cherry on the top of the cake after a very pleasant early afternoon in the East End of the city.

The split fixtures should were announced earlier in the week and the champagne is on ice for the celebrations in the green half of Glasgow and throughout the Celtic supporting World. The rangers getting knocked out of the Europa League to our Basque friends in Bilboa brought a smile to all our faces. The Blue room is bare cause there are no trophies there!

This weekend however it is mission revenge when we head to Hampden Park on Sunday to take on St. Johnstone in the Scottish Cup semi-final a win will go some way to banish the memory of the shock defeat in the League and keep us dreaming of another treble.

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