The next Brendan Rodgers trick will spark seismic Rangers meltdown as he slices through the commotion – Hugh Keevins

Brendan Rodgers was just going through the commotions at Hampden.

At the end of a tumultuous season, full of internal strife and external noise, the Celtic manager achieved a league and cup Double by once again rising above the sound and the fury. As he has done since the season started.

The Scottish Cup was reduced to one more commotion able to be negotiated by keeping calm in the face of remorseless, relentless pressure, including a VAR decision which justifiably disallowed a goal for Rangers after a double handed push on Joe Hart in his last ever game of football. The charge levelled against Rodgers by a former Celtic player that the manager was “Going through the motions” was finally found to be Not Proven on the back of a manager maintaining the best win percentage of any boss in Old Firm history.

And he did it on a day when his players seemed intent on disproving Rodgers’ theory that this was the time of the season when they “Came alive” and put on their “Trophy heads.” Celtic were unrecognisable from recent weeks and high on the list of anonymous performers were the trusted trio of McGregor, Hatate and O’Riley in midfield.

It was Hatate’s replacement, Paolo Bernardo, who had a hand in deciding the final with a shot spilled by Jack Butland and turned into the net by Adam Idah. If you can win a final while being so far short of the best version of yourselves then there are some things that are bigger than all of us.

It’s as if history is falling into place in order to accommodate Rodgers’ fondest wishes. Yesterday, on May 25, the most iconic date in all of Celtic’s 136 year existence, he won the Scottish Cup against his club’s greatest rivals, Rangers.

In doing so, Rodgers nodded in the direction of Jock Stein and