Can it really only be a few weeks since I wrote that I believed our Japanese Bhoys, who have contributed so much to Celtic’s success over the last five years, would still have a role to play in this title race?

After yesterday, I feel a little vindicated. But the full vindication has not yet come. I think they’re going to have an even bigger role than the one they played yesterday, because these two footballers are far too good not to.

After one of his best games for Celtic in a long time on Thursday night, I thought Reo would start yesterday. I felt the team selection was a little flaky, and the first half did nothing to ease that concern. But the way we fought back in the second half, after Reo came on, confirmed that this is a player who is back at his best.

Maeda, whom a lot of people are still criticising, had an excellent second half. He gave their defence nightmares. He would have scored with that header had Sterling’s hand not knocked it into Butland’s body, whatever the wailing Sevconians might want to say.

It is no coincidence that the players who...