Celtic booked their place in the Champions League play-offs tonight as a goalless draw against Elfsborg in Boras gave Neil Lennon's men a slender aggregate win.

Celtic 1 Elfsborg 0

In what has been another week of bad news for the domestic game, St Patrick’s Athletic last night displayed the merits of full-time professional football to progress to the first round proper of the UEFA Cup with a sensational, heart-stopping and, it must be said, thoroughly deserved victory over Elfsborg at a packed and ecstatic Richmond Park.