Brendan Rodgers plays to the gallery but his Celtic side fail to convince

The manager is trying to build a siege mentality yet his sour demeanour gives cause to wonder why he returned to the club

GOOD CHARACTER: Celtic Manager Brendan Rodgers during a pre match interview.

Celtic could yet retain the Scottish Premiership. Any assertion that they will not – hardly wild on the basis of evidence available from the table or umpteen matches – seems to have irked Brendan Rodgers.

Not that it takes much to irritate the Celtic manager; his sour tone has been an intriguing, constant feature of this second spell in Glasgow. One has been left to ponder why he bothered cutting short a planned sabbatical from the game to return to Celtic last summer.