Be careful what you wish for

There are many ways of exiting European football in a given season and I’ve seen Celtic leave the stage in many of them. There were heroic failures such as losing a penalty shoot out to Inter Milan or giving their all in Seville. There are displays which leave you shaking your head and realising that a once great European side has declined dramatically. We saw that in the 1990s when a moderate side such as Neuchatel Xamax hammered a poor Celtic side 5-1...