Hugh Keevins: Celtic pay the price for their cheapskate signing
policy  HUGH believes the Parkhead club's refusal to cough up
for quality has proved their undoing in Europe.  Steve Welsh
Celtic striker Temmu Pukki is not good enough to trouble
Barcelona  IT was what television commentators mistakenly like
to call a long night for Celtic.  But the night was no longer
than any other Champions League group match – 90 minutes in
duration and a game of two halves.  One more painful than the
other for Neil Lennon and his players.  What the commentators
mean is an early goal, such as Gerard Pique’s in the Nou Camp,
is the start of condensing Celtic’s pain and the consequences of
the club’s short-comings into a period of time that makes them
scarily obvious.  A long night means giving short shrift to
excuses and when prominent Celtic players turn on the club for
letting them down with unsatisfactory signings.  And we can
forget about the paranoid accusations of media conspiracies.
What’s worse, suffering your joint