Brendan Rodgers shouldn't scoff too much and you can bet the Celtic boss will be doing one thing behind closed doors

Eighties nostalgia is still all the rage with ITV set to bring back Bullseye and Bergerac getting brought back from the dead.

It might be quite good fun seeing Bully dragging out the speedboat some poor saps from Stockport could have won or the crystal decanter set collected by the couple from Doncaster. We’re not sure if we're going to get 80-year-old John Nettles nicking folk in the Channel Islands, but either way, folk lap up these trips down memory lane.

It’s the same with football – particularly in Scotland. We would give an arm and a leg to hop back 40 years to a time when our teams fought against the best on the continent on a level playing field. People forget the eighties were fairly grim at the time, mind you. Everything was brown and you were always a cheeky comment away from getting your backside slapped red raw by your maw, whether you were in the house or in front of a full aisle at Farmfoods.

Regardless of the collective amnesia, we’re not going back and that means we’re all going to have to adapt to life in 2024. And that means accepting that while our mums can’t issue capital punishment any more, the big teams in European football are more than capable of bashing botties in broad daylight. Celtic – and Rangers – are sitting uncomfortably this week after getting the school bully treatment.

And as far as the Hoops are concerned, the worrying thing is fans are getting immune to it. They have hides made of leather these days. That’s why Brendan Rodgers’s talking about the travelling punters the other day and admitting they deserve better than the Borussia Dortmund dull one was admirable. But the response from those same supporters out in Germany also allowed him to also state on Friday that he’s not for