Brendan Rodgers applauds the fans after the UEFA Champions League match between Celtic FC and BSC Young Boys at Celtic Park on January 22, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
THE NOTAPRODDYGAL – 7.5/10 – The luck O’ the Irish strikes again, and the Zombies are seething. It was looking like nae luck and out for a duck as The Brodge went through agonies on the sidelines.The set-up had worked like a dream all first-half and by any coaching seminar’s hypothetical gameplay we’d already won it out of the park. Not so in reality. So with less time left on the clock as this incarnation of theRangers have, he takes the casino route, rolls the dice and we’re only expecting snake eyes…Nope, double sixes and the flaming roof blows, an avalanche of chips pile up, the croupier can’t believe it and Brendan’s only saved from the glamorous burds throwing themselves at him from left and right by Jamesy picking them off. Charmed. New Gucci belts all round!
Referee Rohit Saggi shows a red card to Daizen Maeda during the UEFA Champions League match between Celtic FC and BSC Young Boys at Celtic Park on January 22, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
MIBBERY – 7/10 – Good grief, I detest these prissy woke suckers who do their best to take a man’s game down to the levels of gender non-binary where no context is considered in the numerous bouts of physical conflict, given the number of big athletic fellas duking it out. Took a while for the least Norewgian looking Norwegian I’ve ever seen to throw his cards about – bar a soft one on AJ – and I was alright with that until he bottled out of telling the VAR rascals to go do one and view the Daizen incident through the correct lens of two antagonists in a petulant match-long squabble, even after he gave US the initial foul. Ah, screw these bureaucratic clowns. They do nothing for football, and more in spite of its true spirit.
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