Sandman’s Definitive Ratings – Celtic v Children of the Corn

THE FRIENDLY GHOST – 6.5/10 – Old heid on the touchline, old heid in the goalmouth; and thankfully both as sprightly as ever. Great stop low down through a forest of legs set the tone – we will not be beaten here. And a clean sheet thereafter exactly what he deserved after weeks of concession.

SCRATCHY – 7/10 – Mental bar steward. OUR mental bar steward. Likes both bombing up the wing in support and bombing after opposition with a vendetta in equal measure. Got the same busy aura about him as Raul Sendic, leader of the Tupamaros, Uruguay’s answer to the Baader-Meinhofs, or Che Guvera’s ELN – mad marxist-Leninist kidnapping, bomber guerilla revolutionaries. Now our left-back.

TONY THE TIGER – 7/10 – Never fade The Brickie, virgins. The rhetoric around Tony is always toxic; much as with Liam. Yet here he was stepping-in and stepping-up; CRUNCHING tackle in the middle to set up the move for the opener, DELIGHTFUL floated ball to create the second. Getting it right roon the haters, Tiger-style.

OF JUSTICE – 7/10 – Balance? Who needs balance when you’ve got faith in the mhan who defended Atlantis with you…Plenty confidence surging through the Ginger Baresi after Sunday’s aberration in a somewhat splendid
season for him. Had his head screwed on and the backline screwed tight tonight. Steady Jamesy…Vice-captain by merit.

CRUSTY THE CLOWN – 7/10 – After so long out and so readily written off, it was interesting to see if he would attempt to prove himself or play with an extrapolated sulk. The former was the case; a rock-steady showing from the lesser-favoured Yank and a stake for a Sunday start.

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