Chris Sutton has delivered a brutal assessment on Celtic’s flat as a pancake season.
Addressing the issue of the mythical gap that preoccupies the delusions of many the only gap that truly matters is the one between first and second place in the SPFL, going into the split it stands at 11 points.
Second place may be spun as progress by some at Ibrox but the reality is that Celtic have slipped back drastically from the high water mark of the 2016/17 season.
Brendan Rodgers and Moussa Dembele were two of the driving forces behind those achievements but the striker left in August with the manager planning his escape from the same time.
It has been an error strewn and injury battered season for the hoops as Sutton explained in the Daily Record.
Let’s be brutally honest, Celtic have been pretty poor in comparison with their standards of the two previous campaigns. There has been upheaval with a manager change, in-fighting over transfer kitties and Dedryck Boyata’s apparent refusal to play,
There was Moussa Dembele’s angry departure and injuries left, right and centre with key players such as Tom Rogic, Leigh Griffiths and Kieran Tierney have missed months of the season.
Celtic have been flat as a pancake and the door was wide open for Rangers to walk through.
Instead of taking that walk, Gerrard and his team are still stood at the bottom of the driveway. There has been a catalogue of errors.
Celtic can take a massive step towards silverware tomorrow when they face Aberdeen in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup knowing that a win would effectively take them to within 90 minutes of a Treble Treble.