Celtic 5 Rangers 0: Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers admits his side should have equalled their record Old Firm win after they clinched their seventh successive Premiership title in stunning style with a 5-0 thrashing of Rangers at Parkhead.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown”.

Four things we learned from the Premier League this weekend. 

Zenit St Petersburg boss Roberto Mancini will see a “much different” Scott Sinclair when their paths meet again tonight, according to the Celtic winger.

Celtic 1 Bayern Munich 2: Celtic exited the Champions League on their shields after a 2-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in a pulsating encounter at Parkhead.

Boss Brendan Rodgers believes Celtic are better placed this season to make progress in Europe despite their daunting Champions League group.

Borussia Monchengladbach 1 Celtic 1: Moussa Dembele’s second- half penalty gave Celtic a 1-1 draw at Borussia Monchengladbach on Tuesday and kept the Hoops’ Champions League hopes alive.

English clubs’ wariness over the potential of Celtic makes a move south unlikely, according to boss Brendan Rodgers.

Christian Benteke’s short-lived Liverpool career is set to come to an end after the club accepted Crystal Palace’s bid of £27m (€31.2m) plus add-ons for the Belgium striker.

Kolo Toure could team up with young Irish defender Eoghan O’Connell to make his Celtic debut against FC Astana in the Champions League tonight, with manager Brendan Rodgers insisting a start for the 35-year-old would not be a gamble.

Republic of Ireland fans have been thanked for paying tribute to a Northern Ireland fan who died after a fall in France.

Liverpool’s players had “strong words” with each other in the dressing room to prevent their dreams of a Wembley final going up in smoke, according to forward Adam Lallana.

The Carolina Panthers withstood a furious second half comeback from the Seattle Seahawks last night to win 31-24 and set up a National Football Conference championship showdown against the Arizona Cardinals.

If at first you don’t succeed, bang your head against a wall until there’s blood.

Klopp will need to hone his alchemy skills. He’s certainly got enough raw sewage to practise on.

Everyone’s been squeezing the life out of Kloppmania, but guess what? There’s a match to get out of the way now. There’s always a catch, isn’t there?

Liverpool have confirmed the appointment of former Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp as their new manager.

Former Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp is being lined up to become Liverpool’s next boss after Brendan Rodgers was sacked.

Liverpool’s non-international players returned to training today as the club continue their pursuit of Jurgen Klopp to become the new manager.

One of the many charms of Jurgen Klopp is that unlike the person he could be succeeding at Anfield, he has the capacity to prompt people to chuckle with him rather than at him.

Sacked Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has spoken of his disappointment at being dismissed but has wished his successor well for the future, as speculation grows that German Jurgen Klopp will replace him at Anfield.

Won one, have we? It can’t be easy being Brendan Rodgers right now. Only a fool would claim otherwise, BUT (you knew one was coming) it takes a special kind of arrogance to denounce legitimate concerns over current form as “hysteria”.

Liverpool 3 Aston Villa 2: Brendan Rodgers needed no evidence of the short term memory of the football industry, the knee-jerk reactions that can turn champs into chumps and back again, all within the blink of a news cycle now measured in minutes rather than weeks.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is once again suffering death by legends as the club’s high profile former players line up to criticise his tactics — and the big question now is ‘How much longer can he last?’

Hello, remember me? I’m the chap who used to write about Liverpool for the Examiner before some satellite TV flunky decided we’d make great Monday Night Heroes.

Liverpool 0 West Ham 3: Buried amid the cacophany of West Ham’s first victory at Anfield in over half a century was the simple fact that several months of hard work and apparent improvement by Liverpool under Brendan Rodgers apparently dissipated in 90 traumatic minutes.

Mario Balotelli claims manager Brendan Rodgers’ tactics contributed to his woeful spell at Liverpool.

During the summer transfer window of 2013, Luis Suarez dominated relations between Liverpool and Arsenal as the two clubs fought out a public spat over the player’s future. Two years on, the shadow of the striker still hangs over the Premier League rivals despite having long since moved to Barcelona.

James Milner was grateful to “a moment of brilliance” from Philippe Coutinho after Liverpool got their Premier League campaign off to a winning start with a 1-0 win at Stoke on Sunday.

Manchester United want one, Arsenal supporters crave one, while Chelsea have rolled the dice with one that once was. 

Our reporter visits the new Cork Prison which is due to open by the end of the year. The cure to chronic back pain can be as easy as putting one foot in front of the other, according to Ireland’s top physio; The Minister for Transport today said he supports the TDs who are the subject of a High Court action by the businessman Denis O'Brien. Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.

Emre Can, Liverpool’s utility man last season, is determined to nail down a place in midfield for the coming campaign.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers last night finally captured his number one summer transfer target after striker Christian Benteke completed his £32.5 million (€46.5m) transfer from Aston Villa.

Manchester City are about to find out whether Raheem Sterling has the ability to justify his enormous price tag or is just another over-rated young English footballer motivated purely by his bank balance.

Get Lucky? We certainly did last night at the Marquee.

Liverpool have named Sean O’Driscoll as their new assistant manager and elevated Pepijn Lijnders to the role of first-team development coach as part of a shake-up of Brendan Rodgers’ backroom staff.

Former Liverpool striker Kevin Keegan believes Brendan Rodgers was misguided in thinking youngster Raheem Sterling could help fill the void left by Luis Suarez.