Our resident Celtic legend on all the action from Parkhead

THURSDAY night felt like a throwback for me.

Standing in the crowd as the stadium started to react to Rosenborg’s goal over in Germany against Leipzig felt a whole lot like being at Love Street in 1986. I have to be honest and say it was the first thing I thought about as the Celtic fans started to celebrate.

We snatched the league title on goal difference after a 5-0 win at St Mirren overturned Hearts’ four-goal advantage, with the Jambos losing 2-0 to Dundee, with Dees striker Albert Kidd the unlikely hero.

Maybe Tore Reginiussen can join Kidd in having a celebratory Celtic Supporters’ Club named after him!

As the roar went up at Celtic Park on Thursday it was interesting because when you are in amongst it, news travels fast. When you are down where Brendan Rodgers is on the touchline, you are in the dark. You have an obvious guess but there is always that fear at the back of your mind that it’s a mistake.

I can guarantee the first thing he would have asked would have been ‘are you sure?’ to whoever broke the good news to him.

But the bottom line is that despite not playing well on the night, Celtic are through.

And they are through not because of what they did on Thursday night, obviously, but because of how they performed over the group as a whole.

Nine points from an exceptionally strong group is a more than respectable tally and that is why they have been able to progress.

The next step will, of course, get harder again but the signs all point to the fact that there will be a few new additions in the January transfer window. And even before we learned about the severity

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