UEFA let Celtic wriggle out from under the Sword of Damocles as Hotline smells the influence of one man

After the Scottish Cup shenanigans at the weekend, attention turns back to the Champions League.

Celtic host the mighty Bayern Munich in the playoff round, but the consensus is that this is as far as Brendan Rodgers' team is likely to go in this competition. However, after UEFA opted not to slap the Hoops with an away fan ban despite their pyro party in Birmingham and Daizen Maeda having his suspension cut, freeing him up to take on Harry Kane and his freunde, another Hotline conspiracy theory has taken hold.

Douglas Moyes emailed: "I see Peter Lawwell has once again used his UEFA to assist Celtic in their hope for European success. The fans ban that has been hanging over the club like the Sword of Damocles for a season now and still they escape a ban. And now Daizen Maeda has a violent conduct charge reduced. I wonder how that could have happened? And not so long ago Lawwell had the cheek to talk of Sporting Integrity. Oh really Peter have a wee look in the mirror."

Gary Stevenson, Newtonhill,added: "Strange to see that UEFA have followed the SFA's lead in going easy on Celtic. Somehow the fans who should be banned are excused, the player Maeda who should be banned gets his ban reduced.

"Perhaps UEFA can further help Celtic by reducing the size of their goals for both matches against Bayern? If Bayern need advice on how to beat Celtic they can always phone 11th placed Bundesliga side Borrusia Dortmund who scraped a 7-1 win only a few months ago.

Rangers need all the help they can get at the moment, and Stuart McLeod, Stepps, will even take some from their rivals this evening. He admitted: "Celtic fans on the Hotline insisting Rangers fans will all be glued to the Celtic result so we can scoff it they lose. I hate to