Celtic won the first of our two December Cup Finals yesterday at Firhill against the longtime Scottish Champions Glasgow City. The only goal of the game came from a superb delivery from a free kick from Sarah Harkes and a bullet header from Caitlin Hayes in a match that Celtic could have won by three or four goals.

The attendance at the League Cup final yesterday was 3645, a record for the final and there were clearly a majority supporting the Hoops. Glasgow City, the 14 times Scottish Champions, the established giants of the Scottish Women’s game brought everything and everyone they had to Firhill yesterday but it was nowhere near enough to cope with Celtic on or off the park.

And here’s the thing. That’s not all that Celtic have, indeed off the park the Celtic fans in the crowd were merely the tip of the iceberg. There’s many more to come to games to watch this Celtic side develop under Fran Alonso and incidentally Mr Nicholson, have you got him tied down to a long term deal?

In the summer Glasgow City lost their manager, the former Aberdeen player Scott Booth who left to join Birmingham City. He then raided Celtic, signing Sarah Ewens and taking Scotland international Lisa Robertson on a season long loan. Fran didn’t stand in their way as the two players – hugely important in last season’s Celtic side – wanted to test themselves and experience English football.

Sometimes though the grass isn’t always greener. Booth lasted only a few months before being sacked a few weeks back and Sarah has had injury problems at Birmingham and is only now getting herself fit. Birmingham have had a horrendous run of defeats and are at the bottom of the league. Maybe it would be best for all concerned of Lisa came back up the road early? She’d be a brilliant addition to this season’s Celtic side.

For Glasgow City they will know that their superiority complex over Celtic is now a busted flush. These Celtic ghirls, the ones who stayed and the ones Fran brought in over the summer, will now have their eyes firmly fixed on Glasgow’s Champions Crown. Celtic are three points behind City and worse still five adrift of theRangers so the Cup Final win needs to be the beginning of an all conquering run of form that can make Celtic SWPL Champions. Can they do it? You bet they can.

Now it’s over to Ange Postecoglou to make it a December Cup Final double for Celtic…

Here’s Niall J’s match report and that’s followed by the best of our photographs from yesterday joyous day as Celtic lifted the Women’s League Cup for only the second time in our history and the first time in eleven years with a 1-0 win over Glasgow City…