All it takes is the sound of UEFA’s favourite anthem to overload the senses and make the impossible seem achievable.
There's a very good reason why Todd Phillips restricted his money-making blockbuster The Hangover to a trilogy.
‘Never again’, Scottish football tells itself in that familiar moment of self loathing and navel gazing. The whole thing left Rangers nursing such a headsplitter last year, some of their most ardent supporters were secretly relieved to drop down a level this time around. And yet Celtic fell for it hook line and sinker in Rotterdam on Tuesday and must now begin the process of another period of introspection, wondering how something so good could turn so bad. So quickly.
Worse still, Celtic have lost 58.9 per cent of all their matches in the Champions League which is the worst record of any club to have clocked up more than 50 group games since the competition came into being. And that is the unpalatable truth when it comes to Scotland’s relationship with European football’s elite event. Whether it’s Celtic or Rangers flying the flag, they are only ever invited to the party on a strictly ‘plus one’ basis.
For 45 minutes, indeed, Rodgers set up his team successfully to tactically frustrate Feyenoord and restrict the free scoring Dutch champions to hopeful crosses and pot shots from long range. By clogging up the central areas and funnelling Feyenoord’s attacks down either flank, Celtic’s compact approach pointed to a sense of pragmatism and perhaps even lessons learned from previous campaigns.
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