KEEPING a clean sheet in the East End of Glasgow has recently proven as elusive as the Holy Grail for Scotland’s top flight. The footage might not quite be sepia tinted but it was so long ago that it feels like a different lifetime.
It was October 2021 and the team were Livingston. Odd as it may be now, it was still the time of some Covid uncertainty - Christmas was all but cancelled just a few weeks later - and Ange Postecoglou hadn’t yet won over the Celtic faithful; sentiment that would today be about as welcome in that side of the city as Rangers’ 2023 annual.
Then Livingston, buoyed by the excellence of Ayo Obileye, Jack Fitzwater and Max Stryjek, came calling. On Wednesday, they’ll have the chance - in their first game back post the World Cup break - to repeat those heroics and stop Celtic scoring, but will once again need everything to go their way.
