At any standard, in any country, at any grade, this is just ridiculous.
Remember those games of five-a-side where you were either playing a team much weaker than you or you just had a coach who wanted you to be better at football? So the stipulations were placed on your match, you couldn’t shoot until every player in your team touched the ball.
It made it more difficult – that was the whole point – and it forced even your weak players to grow more comfortable in possession and not think that they could take a sneaky back seat.
Brendan Rodgers, total football’s great moral crusader, might’ve been unlucky to see a Premier League title slip from his grasp a couple of years ago – pun not intended, but enjoyed – but he’s rectifying it north of the border.
Celtic’s undefeated campaign continued in glorious fashion at St. Johnstone.
Now, people might try to poke unoriginal fun at the Celts or at Brendan Rodgers because it’s in the Scottish league and all that. Listen, we all know it’s not the most competitive division in the world and we can all accept that maybe the football sometimes leaves a lot to be desired.
Not by the Hoops some days though. Not under Brendan Rodgers’ watch.
On Sunday, the soon-to-be 48-time league champions came from behind and they did it in stupendous fashion.
By the time their fifth and final goal came around, they were just showing off.
24 passes, every man on the team getting in on the act, a rabona, a back heel, a hat-trick finish for Moussa Dembele.
The French man might’ve just been the beneficiary of a whole lot of crazily good work, but he completed it with style and conviction.
Look at the two final passes to set him up though. Look at the whole damn thing.
This is football at its absolute best. Scottish football or not.
