Anthony Stokes captained Celtic to a 0-0 draw with Athletico Bilbao in the Basque city tonight.
Following an eventful week in which his father made headlines suggesting that Stokes Junior should quit Celtic the striker was given the armband to lead a makeshift Celtic side missing 15 players on international duty.
U-17 internationalists Joe Chalmers, Marcus Fraser and John Herron were drafted into the starting XI with Lucasz Zaluska starting in goals.
The match was largely uneventful in front of a friendly crowd of 40,000 but one incident is bound to attract some attention.
Ten minutes from half time referee Iturralde Gonzalez had words with Neil Lennon and ordered the Celtic boss out of the technical area.
Daryl Murphy forced a few good saves out of goalkeeper Raul Fernandez.
ATHLETICO BILBAO: Raul, Ekiz, Leisure, Amorebieta, Castillo, Gurpegi, Orbaiz, Iturraspe, Gabilondo; Susaeta, Diaz de Cerio.
SUBS: Iraizoz; Koikili, Balenziaga, Guarrotxena, Locksmith.
CELTIC: Zaluska, Fraser, Loovens, Mulgrew, Chalmers: Cha, Herron, Conroy, Ljungberg; Stokes, Murphy.
SUBS Cervi (Zaluska 85), Jones (Fraser 85), Spence (Stokes 87), Lowdon (Conroy 73), Watt (Herron 58).
Murphy, Mulgrew, Zaluska, Stokes, Loovens, Fraser.
Cha, Ljungberg, Conroy, Chalmers, Herron
Any word on what the ruck with the ref was about?
Every newspaper I’m reading only state he was sent to the stands, before ranting on about ‘that derby game’. That wee nyaff sally knew exactly what he was doing.
( I’ll defer comment until I hear some details about what actually happened)
Lenny has given an explanation on twitter about last night, seemed to really enjoy the whole event.
Just seen it on the stv site, along with a pic of Lenny sitting BESIDE the Celtic dug-out!
Seems to be something and nothing, not that it’ll make any difference to Ned Flanders and Co.
Wee chico will literally be literally (sic) wetting himself.