I think there is no doubt that Celtic will make a really big signing over the next few weeks. That may be Sol Campbell, Craig Bellamy of Robbie Keane.

We may well get all three but in all honesty it’s more likely that ONE possibly two, will make their way to Paradise.

So, taking Sol Campbell out of the equation as he’s a defender, who would you most like to see in the Hoops next season?

Robbie Keane or Craig Bellamy?

Your choice……

From the first minute to the last, Celtic showed a fighting spirit that too often this season has been missing.

In typical Lennon fashion, every player fought for every ball and made life difficult for the SPL’s form team.

No inch was given in a game that Celtic deserved to win, especially after Dundee United resorted to kicking everything that moved.

And to round things off, the ref, Iain Brines sent off United sub Williams and gave Celtic a penalty! Although he could quite easily have sent Buaben off too, but bottled it.

What makes the victory all the sweeter is the fact that Lenny lost both comeback defenders Thomas Rogne and Glenn Loovens to injury, finishing with Darren O’Dea and Mark Wilson in central defence.

The goals came from Diomansky Kamara after half an hour, and Robbie Keane with an injury time penalty.

Lenny’s fifth SPL win secures Celtic Champions League football next season and end’s the Arabs challenge for second place.

Q: What have Aiden McGeady, Robbie Keane and Shaun Maloney all got in common?

A: They get NO protection from referees in Scotland.

I’ll add Paul McGowan to that list too, after the battering St Johnstone gave him.

From the very first game of the season at Aberdeen to yesterday’s encounter with Hibs at Celtic Park our ball players have been booted up and down the park with NO protection from incompetent referees.

The game is crying out for entertainers, players that can dribble, beat a man and do things with the ball. Yet when we get these type of players, your Boogera, Webster, Weir and every other clogger in the SPL have a free rein to kick ten shades of shit out them.

Until the ball players are protected the standard of the game in Scotland will continue to drop. Which is good news for ‘spoilers’ whos aim is not to get beat as opposed to trying to win.

Nearly all of the goals, well the most important ones, we’ve score since the January window have come courtesy of Robbie Keane’s shooting boots.

Since Keano is only here until the summer, if reports are accurate, we need to have a consistent goalscorer coming to the fore between now and the end of the season.

But who will that be?

Marc-Antoine Fortune? Well MAF has scored a few since he joined the club but is hardly prolific, and seems to be a better link man than an out and out goalscorer.

Georgios Samaras? Sammy is an enigma. He can be brilliant then abysmal, all in the one move! He does score a few goals but isn’t one to rely on.

Paul McGowan? Gowser is knocking on the door for a first team place but is just a bit short of making a telling contribution.

Then we have Morten Rasmussen. The big Dane scored on his debut but has had very little game time since that day at Hamilton. He does have a penalty box mentality and that’s something we’ve been missing. Provided we get the ball into the area often enough Ras could be the one to get us the goals.

That’s what we think, what do you think?

Visit our new poll and tell us who you think will get the goals for Celtic after Robbie’s gone!

Neil Lennon’s first game in charge ended in a comfortable 3-1win against a second rate Kilmarnock side at Celtic Park today.

And it could have been a lot more-the Bhoys missed three great chances inside as many minutes as Keane & Co. got off to a whirlwind start.

Lenny decided to restore Andreas Hinkel and Lee Naylor to his starting line-up to add a bit more steel to the defence.  Both were instrumental in every Celtic attack.

Despite  having so much pressure it took until the 35th minute before the Bhoys took the lead. Scott Brown played a ball to Robbie Keane at the edge of the box, Keane turned and slipped the ball past two Killie defenders before his chipped the advancing Bell in Kilmarnock’s goal. 1-0 Celtic.

Celtic were well worth their lead and Aiden nearly made it two when he hit the inside of the post before the ball rebounded to safety.

No dount Lenny will have been pleased with his first 45 minutes in charge.

The second half started a bit slower with Killie stopping the game as much as possible. But that didn’t deter the Hoops who increased the lead to 2-0 courtesy of, who else?  With 66 mins on the clock Robbie Keane cut inside from the left to smash an unstoppable shot past the helpless Bell.

Only four minutes later and Scott Brown made it three after a sweeping move that saw Aiden’s cross leave Skoosh with a simple tap-in.

At this point it was looking like a drubbing but the Ayrshire Huns got a deflection to grab a goal back. Soon after Celtic should have had a penalty but Dougie McDonald did his usual by denying a stonewall penalty after a Killie defender played basketball with the ball on the edge of his six yard area.

As the game petered out Aiden ran fully 40 yards before blasting a shot off the crossbar.

All in all a good day for Lenny and the Faithful with the players showing some of the bite that has been missing of late.

They say that decisions even themselves out over the course of the season, unless your the MM, they just get them all the time.

Well, if that’s the case then Celtic deserved the penalty we were awarded at paradise yesterday when MAF was upended by the Saints goalie on 67 minutes, although I failed to see how the keeper Graeme Smith escaped even a yellow card.

The resultant penalty was the best ever penalty-kick taken at Celtic Park since penalties were invented. (Well mibbee no, but it was perfectly executed by Robbie Keane!)

Penalty aside, the game was also notable for the performance of young Paul McGowan. The wee Celt earned his man of the match award with a busy display that could also have seen him net a couple of times…and he was the most kicked player on the park. A decent referee would have sent at least one St Johnstone player off for the treatment they dished out to Gowser.

But where do you find one of them?

The game also marked three consecutive clean sheets, at Falkirk, Kilmarnock and yesterday. Not bad for a patch work defence.

Another highlight for me was the passing of Dave, (or Rodney). He was pinging balls all over the pitch with so much ease, all he needs is the right partner in the middle of the park to win the ball and give it to him.

He looks the real deal to me.

Since Robbie Keane put pen to paper on his loan deal from Spurs to Celtic all the media have done is try their level best to scunner the player with incessant questions about his long term future.

At every opportunity they’ve put a mic in front of him, then followed up with the ‘will you still be at Celtic next season?’ question.

After scoring a hat-trick at Kilmarnock last week, Keane had to cut short his post match interview when the same question was asked.

Only this week we’ve had Spurs assistant Joe Jordan, telling us Robbie will return to North London, then his gaffer at White Hart Lane, Harry The Fox told us that the player will be going back down south.

So, why does the media insist in asking the same question, over and over again?

Basically, they know what a major coup for Celtic signing Robbie Keane on a longer deal would be, so to try and circumvent that they’ve decided the best course of action is to piss the player off.

That way he’ll think twice about extending his stay.

And so far they’re winning…..

It was almost like a prophecy.

At the start of the Festival of St Patrick, Robbie Keane, son of Erin, bangs in three glorious goals to dump Tango and Sash out of the Scottish Cup.

The Republic of Ireland captain scored three times in a second half canter that put his ‘bhoyhood’ heroes into the semi-finals.

Then in the afternoon, the Irish rugby fellows dispatched another Celtic nation Wales 27-12 at Croke Park to mark captain Brian O’Driscoll’s 100th cap for his country.

Hopefully the good fortune will continue when Dundee United formerly Dundee Hibernian, go to the Hunnery for today’s Scottish Cup tie.

Referee’s permitting, the Arabs could well knock Scotland’s Shame out the cup and give us even more reason to have a pint of the black stuff!

For anyone who doubted the wisdom of Tony Mowbray, including Skippy, for tempting Robbie Keane to join the Bhoys on loan, then the Irishman left all doubters high and dry today.

A second half hat-trick hauled the Hoops through to the semi-final of the Scottish Cup at Kilmarnock this afternoon.

After a lacklustre fifty minutes in which Celtic were largely second best, Mogga changed things by bringing on Marc-Antoine Fortune and Sammy for the ineffectual Marc Crosas and Morten Rasmussen.

And for me, MAF made all the difference.

Not only did he lay on two of Robbie goals but his general play offered a more direct route.

Tactically the big man made the changes that counted and turned a hard fought tussle into a canter.

So, at last we’ve something to cheer about, well kinda, so lets make the best of it!

A goal in each half was enough to give Celtic a valuable three points at the Falkirk Stadium this afternoon.

Robbie’s fourth and fifth goals since his arrival will go a long way to repay the reputed £65,000,ooo a week Celtic are paying him( Or is it £66M?).

And, Artur was instrumental in the Hoops defence keeping a rare clean sheet, despite Mogga making four forced changes from the side that started last week

Hopefully, we can string a few wins together and get some momentum going towards a day out at Hampden on the last day of the season.