Shiels likened to David Brent

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The Celtic boss described the absence of his players from the PFA Scotland Player of the Year shortlist as “abysmal” last week, prompting Shiels to say: “Celtic make a song and dance about everything, don’t they? Paranoid FC.”

Speaking after Celtic’s 3-1 Clydesdale Bank Premier League defeat by Motherwell at Fir Park — in which one of the shortlisted players, Michael Higdon, scored a penalty to take his tally for the season to 26 — Lennon responded by likening Shiels to Brent, a vain, deluded and self-promoting office manager from the BBC series, The Office.