“That’s the dream for all of us again,” as Martin O’Neill praises Brendan Rodgers

Celtic’s 3-1 win in Rotterdam has certainly raised spirits at Celtic, from the players to the support who still remain divided in their outlook towards the Celtic Board with little or no sign of any sort of olive branch appearing that may heal the division.

So while Martin O’Neill can’t do much about that himself it’s clearly been on his mind after being pretty shocked at the events he was thrown into eight days ago at the controversial and entirely unsatisfactory Celtic AGM. We’ll come back to that in the next article.

What O’Neill can and has done something about is raising spirits in the support and confidence in the Celtic squad he has handed so brilliantly over these past few weeks, delivering a place in the Premier Sports Cup final, cutting seven points off the Hearts lead that looked significant when he arrived but is now very much neck and neck, and importantly delivered an away win in Europe against a notable opponent.

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