LIAM BRADY, Lou Macari, Tommy Burns, Wim Jansen, Jo Venglos, John Barnes, Kenny Dalglish (caretaker), Martin O’Neill, Gordon Strachan, Tony Mowbray, Neil Lennon (two stints), Ronny Deila and Ange Postecoglou.

It’s a fair old roll call, isn’t it? A list of Celtic managers since the team had last suffered defeat against Dundee at Dens Park until Sunday.

Billy McNeill was the Hoops boss back on the fateful Saturday afternoon of September 24 1988 when future Celt Tommy Coyne scored the only goal in the Tayside encounter.

Since then, the team had remained impregnable in 37 visits to the City of Discovery – until Brendan Rodgers’ bunglers stepped onto thin ice on Tayside at the weekend and disappeared from view before the half-time whistle.

It must have been a fairly humiliating reverse for the Irishman against a team hovering perilously close to the relegation trapdoor and managed by Steven Pressley who had just returned to the dug-out at the start of the season after being sacked by English fourth-tier Carlisle United in November 2019.

If there is any consolation for Rodgers, he can at least say he...