Brendan Rodgers facing Celtic nightmare before Christmas and I'll be shocked if he's still in charge next season - Hugh Keevins

Brendan Rodgers has only dropped two points in seven away matches this season. And just two points out of a possible 15 in the league at home.

But the Celtic manager is under tremendous pressure, starting today when his team play host to Aberdeen. It wouldn’t be hard to feel a sense of a season unravelling. Daizen Maeda is the latest long-term injury. The squad is threadbare in spite of numerous signings. Europe has been a shambles. There’s continuing warfare between the club and the Green Brigade, which will doubtless intensify today because of prohibited flags. Further down the line Maeda, Kyogo Furuhashi and Oh Hyeon-gyu are set to miss a bundle of games in the new year due to internationals. And then there’s the matter of a resurgent Rangers.

Celtic Park will be an odd place this afternoon for the game with Aberdeen. The home crowd will be suffering from the football fans’ equivalent of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after watching their team beaten to a pulp by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.

There will, because it is Remembrance Sunday, be the obligatory hullabaloo over poppies, silence for the dead and the inevitable howls of contempt from wherever over whatever form of disruption takes place. And then there’s the football. The Viaplay Cup has gone for this season. The Champions League in particular, and European football in general, has gone for the season as well.

Children count how many sleeps there are from now until Christmas. Celtic supporters count how many more embarrassments there are to come in Group E before December to highlight their unsuitability for the elite level of competition.

Just Lazio away, followed by Feyenoord at home, then it’s all over. But have the Celtic supporters contemplated