“We played with verve, enthusiasm and appetite. Jota and Forrest, were superb,” David Potter

One of our better performances of the season, one feels, and three very valuable points to enhance our challenge for the League title. Now only eight League games left and we are three points and eleven goals ahead of our rivals. That seems pretty healthy to me, especially if we can keep playing like this.

And it was good to get the monkey off our back about bogey grounds etc.

The attitude was spot on today as we took a grip of the game from the very start and held on to it. We played with verve, enthusiasm and appetite. Our flair players on the wings, Jota and Forrest, were superb throughout and you could not really say that there was a weak link in the Celtic team. Rogic was particularly good as well, but there was speed and clever passing from everyone.

The victory was well deserved against a team who are far from the worst team in the League.

One really has to admire Livi. Like Ross County, they have no support to speak of, and yet they are doing well – something that should shame quite a few other clubs who perpetually complain about lack of support. Two complaints about them, though, – their pies are dreadful, and they don’t seem to be able to put numbers in a sequence, and if you don’t believe me, have a look at Row A in the North Stand the next time you are there. A civilised set-up, though!

There was a wee bit of straw clutching from Mr Martindale about how the first goal came off a corner which wasn’t a corner, and everyone was trying to find a hand ball for them in the build up for another goal, but the truth was that they were outplayed by a very fine Celtic side.

We could do with a lot more of this, Celtic. In fact we will have to play like this in the next eleven games (eight League and three Scottish Cup ties, assuming we get that length).

Now over a week before our next game against Dundee United at Tannadice in the Scottish Cup quarter final next Monday night. Anything but easy, but on today’s performance and with our noisy passionate support behind the team, we need fear no-one. “…it’s the only explanation I can find…!”

David Potter

About Author

David was a distinguished Celtic author and historian and writer for The Celtic Star. He lived in Kirkcaldy and followed Celtic all my life, having seen them first at Dundee in March 1958. He was a retired teacher and his other interests were cricket, drama and the poetry of Robert Burns. David Potter passed away on 29 July 2023 after a short illness. He was posthumously awarded a Special Recognition award by Celtic FC at the club's Player of the Year awards in May 2024. David's widow Rosemary accepted the award to huge applause from the Celtic Supporters in the Hydro.

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