How Neil Lennon killed the Celtic mole as Brendan Rodgers told 'forensics' hold the key to stopping team sheet leaks

Brendan Rodgers isn't the first manager to hit out at the infamous Celtic mole - as Neil Lennon once cracked down and managed to stop it 'for a while.'

Speaking after the Hoops' rampant 6-0 win over Aberdeen in the Premier Sports Cup semi-final, Rodgers said he'll be doing everything he can to find the person who has been leaking his teamsheets before games. For the second match running, the Celtic team had been correctly leaked by an anonymous source on social media before it was announced by the club, and Rodgers said whoever is publishing it 'isn't a Celtic supporter' - urging them to cut it out and stop giving the opposition an advantage.

Back in 2019, Lennon faced the same problem. And he even got the FORENSICS out to get to the bottom of it. Speaking on BBC's 5 Live last year, he said: "Even at Celtic, in my second spell, we would pick the team a day before. Then the team would be out on the wires at like 7pm that night. You're thinking 'it's coming from somewhere it's coming from somewhere in the building'. Sometimes, even the players can do you in if they're maybe out the team. It wouldn't have happened 10-15 years ago but it's such a common trend now. I am wary of naming a team a day before the game but it's what the players like.

"We played Jonny Hayes (in September 2019), there's absolutely no way anybody could have known we were going to play Jonny Hayes on the left wing. I swear, at 6.30pm (the night before game) it's all over Twitter. I was raging, you are just giving the opposition an advantage here. Because either someone is getting paid money for it or they are giving it to a betting company, or this guy is feeding them a few... I don't know. It was just so wrong on so many levels.

"It wasn't leaked to