Joe Hart is best Celtic signing of season and cheap shots at keeper are wide of the mark

It's a decade since Joe Hart’s notorious shampoo adverts first aired.

Since then the goalkeeper’s career has been subjected to some of the flakiest football commentary around as he’s been castigated and derided as much as he’s been championed.

Ironic really. Given that for the majority of that time he has been head and shoulders above the vast majority of the English goalkeeping fraternity even if at times he’s been starved of the chance to show it.

That’s the bald truth. Jose Mourinho reckoned so exactly a year ago. Nuno Espirito Santo didn’t. Simon Jordan? Well the shock jock’s expertise on goalkeeping might just be as convincing as Hart’s toe-curling ads.

His attack on the Celtic keeper on his radio show this week was an unnecessary as it was unfounded.

Jordan was responding to the goalkeeper’s airing of former Spurs boss Nuno’s blunt assessment that led to his swift Spurs exit.

But his OTT assessment of the goalkeeper summed up the strange and wildly conflicting opinions on Hart south of the border.

To put it in context here’s just some of the judgements on the keeper in the past 12 months.

Jose Mourinho, Tottenham manager, April 2021: “Joe Hart is the best English goalkeeper”.

Nuno Espirito Santo, new Tottenham manager, summer 2021: “Joe Hart is too slow, too old, too weak”.

Simon Jordan, radio co-presenter, March 2021: “Joe Hart is useless”.

Me? For what it’s worth, I reckon Joe Hart is a class act and the single most important signing of the Ange Postecoglou Celtic revolution.

What a rollercoaster of opinion on one man who, let’s not forget, has 75 England caps, two Premier League titles, six major honours and 440 top flight appearances down south under his belt.

The only opinion that matters though? That of