It can rank up there with the notion that decapitation is a fine cure for a migraine.

Celtic’s involvement in Europe’s premier competition is not a curse for the rest of Scottish football.

The suggestions this week that the Parkhead side’s entry into the group stages of the UEFA Champions League is a poor result for the rest of the domestic game is, frankly, head scratching in its logic.

There is a small financial kickback to every other team in the league, insignificant in its amount perhaps, but having a club represented at this stage of European football is an opportunity to rehabilitate the reputation of a league that has been badly tarnished by season upon season of domestic and international failure in Continental competition.

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In recent years there have been various European failings before July was out with Aberdeen, St Johnstone and Heart of Midlothian all putting away their passports at the first time of asking. Rangers, this season, went out to opposition from Luxemborg.

The argument, of course, is a financial one, that Celtic raking in more cash can only hinder the competitive nature of the league.

But Celtic’s budget is already so far ahead of every other team that the financial injection that comes from the Champions League, in reality, makes little difference to the fate of the season. Celtic’s domestic fortunes this season are unlikely to have varied much whether they qualified for the Champions League or not.

In actual fact, as St Johnstone could testify this weekend, the flatness of a game after the pressure and mental effects of a game in the Champions League creates a chink in the armour of a team who have not offered much encouragement to those who have tried to lay a glove on them.

The Parkhead side remain so far in front on and off the park that the benefit of further resources hardly matters. It will enable them to bring better players to the club, surely of wider benefit to the league as a whole?

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There is an argument, too, for exposure to top level football for Scottish players, players who will form the spine of Gordon Strachan’s Scotland side, can only be enhance their professional development.

Scotland are in action this week as they push for qualification, unlikely as it seems, for next year’s World Cup. Failure to make it will mean that the national team has been absent from a major international tournament for 22 years.

The world’s two most expensive players will be on display in Glasgow in just over a fortnight.

This summer’s signings of Neymar and Kylian Mpabbe, PSG’s significant financial muscle, will bring glamour and interest to Celtic Park.

A couple of weeks ago, the club hooted Gary Linker and Steven Gerrard in their television media suits as they arrived to cover the club’s joust for entry into the group stages.

Raising the profile to a southern audience, in turn raises the profile of the league.

It is understandable that opposition teams are reluctant to act as cheerleaders for Celtic. However, to offer the notion that qualification for Europe’s most prestigious competition is a negative seems irrational at best and churlish at worst.

There is interest, too, in terms of Brendan Rodgers and just what he can oversee over these next few months.

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It is widely received that he has invigorated Celtic since his arrival 15 months ago. He has captivated the Celtic support with a brand of football in keeping with the traditions of the club and has brought an atmosphere of expectation back to the club.

There have been clever signings in the transfer market - Olivier Ntcham looks like the next player to make a name for himself in Glasgow – and there has been a certain swagger that Celtic have played with under his tutelage.

For a manager whose own standing was bruised by his latter months in the job at Liverpool, the Champions League is truly where he can define his own reputation.

Few will bat an eyelid at Celtic romping their way to a domestic Treble outwith these shores but competing against the elite teams in the Champions League is a different matter altogether.

Whatever comes over the course of these six games, there will be excitement and entertainment. Have box-office names in attendance can only enliven the campaign and add a further layer of intrigue.

Celtic fans will enjoy the David and Goliath nature of the contests and while those of opposition teams can be forgiven for not wanting them to come out on top, it is bizarre to hold the opinion that the games themselves are a poor result for Scottish football as a whole.