Neil Lennon will walk his team out at Hampden on Sunday and take his place in the dugout for the Scottish Cup final after receiving a suspended one-match ban by the Scottish Football Association, writes Richard Wilson.

Celtic have been linked with a £750,000 move for Algerian striker El Arbi Hillel Soudani.

SCOTT Brown sat in one of Hampden's corporate boxes and watched the team in green-and-white being torn apart in the Scottish Cup final.

THE road towards playing for his favourite club was pitted with potholes and marked by stumbles from Anthony Stokes.

THIS was the ideal tune-up for Celtic ahead of Sunday's William Hill Scottish Cup final.

THIS has been Welsh football's annus mirabilis; Swansea City lifted the Capital One Cup, Cardiff City won promotion to the Barclays Premier League at long last and Gareth Bale won just about every Player of the Year award on offer south of the border.

THE passing of the years has done little to diminish Neil Lennon's memory.

VICTOR WANYAMA has invoked the example of Borussia Dortmund to inspire Celtic's hopes of success in the Champions League.

THIS was a bad afternoon for St Johnstone.

CELTIC put another trophy in their cabinet after hitting St Johnstone with pretty much everything they have in their locker.

Neil Lennon has played down the prospect of him being offered the Everton manager's job but it is understood that Celtic, wary of losing the 41-year-old to the Barclays Premier League club, have sounded out Owen Coyle about the possibility of replacing him should an approach materialise.

Danny McGrain believes that guiding Celtic to a Champions League victory over Barcelona was reason enough on its own for Neil Lennon to deserve to win the PFA Scotland Manager of the Year award.

PRESS interrogations of Adam Matthews tend to reveal little more than the name, rank and number of the Welsh guard.

Celtic continued their pursuit of Aleksandar Tonev at the weekend by sending a scout to watch him play for Lech Poznan.