I think it was a scandalous decision not to give the Manager of the Year award to Brendan Rodgers by the PFA. I have no quibble with the work that Jack Ross has done at St Mirren - his team have been excellent - and I think Steve Clarke and Neil Lennon have both been notable for what they have done and how they have punched above their weight this season. But really? There was only one winner for me and it has got to be Rodgers. We are talking about a man who can go on this season and achieve something that no other manager in the history of Scottish football has done. He is one game away from leading Celtic to their sixth consecutive domestic trophy, an unparalleled achievement that no team has done before in our game. How can that not be worthy of being the best manager in the country? It is a baffling call, not that the Celtic manager will be giving a damn.

He is obsessed not with personal trinkets and accolades but with constantly getting Celtic to where he thinks they should be. It will be water off a duck’s back to him but I have to say there is a bit of head scratching on my part. And while I think Scott Brown was the right call for Player of the year, I think you have to give special mention this term to Callum McGregor and the way that he has come to the fore. He has gone from being a fringe player to shooting right up the pecking order. He is close to being an automatic choice and he is a player who just seems to be full of confidence at the minute.

If you look at McGregor’s body shape two years ago and compare it to now, you’ll see a huge difference. He has got leaner and fitter and as player I think when you know you can rely on that, know that you have a significantly high level of fitness that it gives you tremendous confidence in a game. There are a number of players I think who fall into that category and as a team I think they are by far and away the fittest team in the league. McGregor his goal exceptionally well against Rangers on Sunday afternoon. But to be honest, there was only word to describe Celtic’s performance over Rangers on Sunday. To quote the Glasgow vernacular it was an absolute doing. I spoke in this column about how passive Rangers were at Hampden when Celtic walked all over them on their way to the William Hill Scottish Final. I actually felt that Rangers put far more effort into it on Sunday at Celtic Park - but Celtic just swatted them aside. And I know that people are talking about Graeme Murty and how much sympathy they have for him and the way he has been treated but to be honest, I don’t. This is the gig if you are the Celtic or Rangers manager and always has been. You can’t come second. I speak from experience when I say I know exactly what the pressures of the job are. I can’t speak for the manner in which he was undermined by his own board in the lead-up to both games against Celtic but ultimately you know that your job is to go and win games. If you don’t meet that as a manager then it is inevitable that your P45 is in the post. For Celtic, though, the pace, the tempo and the performance were excellent. I knew from the very first minute that the goals were coming just from the way they started the game - and I suspect Rangers did too. They had no answer to the sheer relentlessness of Celtic. Of the way they just kept on coming at them and most of us in the ground would have felt that it 5 going on as many as they wanted. It really could have been anything and from Celtic’s point of view it will be about using that level of performance as they train their sights on the forthcoming Scottish Cup final.