Mark Hendry: Celtic’s January Window Is Slipping Away and the Evidence Is Right There on the Pitch

A soporific Scottish Cup win exposed the same old flaws, a lack of planning, no striker, no width and a hierarchy still scrambling for answers as time runs out.

Michael Nicholson has known since last summer that Celtic’s current squad is not up to snuff.

If the chief executive was at Rugby Park last night to witness their turgid Scottish Cup win over Auchinleck Talbot, he’ll now know it’s borderline abysmal.

Granted, Martin O’Neill named 10 changes to his lineup and started with a second, maybe third string XI.