IT is some 21 years since Tommy Burns’s Celtic team played football of the Gods, scored spectacular goals, would rather have died than go into any match with a negative set-up and lost just the one league game all season.

Some of the stuff played over that campaign by, among others, Paul McStay, Jackie McNamara, John Collins, Andy Thom and Pierre van Hooijdonk lives long in the memory. It was how the game should be. Supporters work hard all week and for their hard earned money deserve to be entertained on a Saturday. Nobody felt short-changed.

There was just one problem. They didn’t win anything. Rangers got a double, which took them to eight championships in a row, and the League Cup was lifted by Aberdeen. For all that the much-missed Burns put together something special, the only thing the club could hold up that May was a hugely watchable DVD.

Celtic have won a lot of silver since then. But no team has been as entertaining.

Martin O’Neill’s side were great to watch, for some reason this has been rewritten out of history by some, but even with Henrik Larsson it wasn’t always pretty.

But the end of Gordon Strachan’s time, the football could be grim. They won, but it was grim. So, too, with Neil Lennon and especially Ronny Deila. His team were miles ahead but the reason Celtic Park had plenty of empty seats was down to the fact some of the stuff was shocking.

And now we have this team moulded by Brendan Rodgers. They play better football than even that Burns side and because this is the most dominant Celtic team perhaps of all time, they can't stop winning.

As long as Rodgers is at the club and can keep most of the players, and attract more of the same, then Celtic defeats will be rarer than a Donald Trump tweet that doesn’t put the fear of God into you.

This is great for Celtic and their supporters. It’s not so good for Scottish football as a whole. Competition, league title races, last day deciders and what-not are great fun. If this were the 1980s when four clubs won the title and Hearts should have done, then the Premiership would be so much be so much better.

But what is Rodgers and Celtic supposed to do? Wait until Rangers stop making mistakes Or for Aberdeen to get their new stadium, Hearts to move up a level or some Qatari prince deciding that Perth is just lovely and buys St Johnstone?

Utter domination in football can be dull apart from those dominating. However, when the football is as good as this then at least Celtic are giving their own supporters memories and trophies.

Rodgers’s players have been excellent this season and Saturday’s 6-0 win over Inverness was one of their best performances. The poor Highlanders were left chasing shadows and if anything did well to get away with only shelling half a dozen goals.

Scott Brown again was magnificent, James Forrest had a hand in four of the goals, Scott Sinclair actually runs faster with the ball at his feet, while Mikael Lustig scored a goal Denis Bergkamp would have been chuffed with.

And as for Moussa Dembele. Celtic supporters, cherish this guy. He might last one more season but he won’t be here forever. The Frenchman could get 40 all different goals this season. He was on a different planet no Saturday.

From the previous match at McDiarmid Park to this one, it took him 38 minutes to score two hat-tricks. Not even Larsson or Bobby Lennox managed that.

“The manager says we can get better and I think that is a real positive,” said Forrest who remains inconsistent but on his is day a wonderful winger. This was one of his days.

“He keeps on getting after us every day to keep pushing on and getting better. That is good to have from a manager. It is definitely the best I’ve felt. The confidence throughout the team, not just for myself, is really high just now. The supporters are behind us.”

Rodgers won’t settle. He will never tell his team to tea, conservatively. His greatest strength is improving players.

“The manager has sat down and chatted with all of us at different stages throughout the season,” revealed Forrest. “It has been really good. From day one we have just felt a good vibe.

“He brings real positivity. He makes you want to work and he makes you want to get better. He said it himself on day one: if no-one wanted to get better under him then he would show them the door.

"It’s a credit to all the boys – even the ones that haven’t played and come in – that everybody has been working hard. You can see that in the performances that they have been put in.”

Poor Inverness. They had no clue how to deal with what came at them. They put in a few tough tackles in but even that wasn’t going to make much of a difference. Celtic are now only games away for their sixth successive title, it’s February, and they are doing all of this with a smile on their faces.

Rodgers would be chuffed for this team to be compared to Burns’s who was a friend and mentor from when they worked together at Reading. However, it would be the boy from the Calton, the lucky supporter, who would be happier than anyone.