Rodgers’ swaggering invincibles are light years ahead

CONGRATULATIONS go to Celtic for the most convincing, deserved, gleeful romp of a title triumph seen in a long, long time. The gap between the champions and their nominal challengers is currently measured not in points but in light years. It is now up to those would-be rivals to find some way, any way, to show the world that their spirited resistance is anything but futile. If Celtic keep improving, they’re going to have to work miracles just to get close within the next three or four seasons. Whether it’s three or four matters. There they go, Ten in a Row? On a day when a club like Hearts are swept aside with ease to clinch a sixth consecutive title, nobody could take the magical, mythical, previously unattainable Ten off the table completely. Rangers aren’t at the races. Aberdeen are, in many ways, a better team than they were last season — yet aren’t within hollering distance. Hearts may talk about having ambitions to challenge but, well, you know. In the short term, meanwhile, only boredom or a decision to rest 12 or 13 first-team squad members is likely to put the unbeaten domestic record at stake. Their fellow Scottish Cup semi-finalists might argue otherwise, completing a Treble while earning themselves the title of Invincibles wouldn’t seem an excessive reward for how Celtic have played in this first season under Brendan Rodgers. As soon as the title party winds down, of course, there will be many in the Celtic support who fear that Rodgers has done

too well in his debut campaign at Parkhead. That he’s guaranteed to have attracted attention by the swagger of his team and the scale of his triumph. Whether the most upbeat man in Britain stays beyond the summer may be influenced, of course, on the backing he gets in the transfer window. But the gut says he’ll stay. If only because he’s enjoying himself so much in Scotland.