TRYING to gauge just how ready a team is for the new campaign based on how they fared in pre-season is a bit like looking at yesterday's weather and guessing what it will be like tomorrow.
TRYING to gauge just how ready a team is for the new campaign based on how they fared in pre-season is a bit like looking at yesterday's weather and guessing what it will be like tomorrow.
Kris Commons scores against Internazionale before having to go off due to an ankle injury. Picture: Craig Williamson/SNS
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Graeme Macpherson
It might inform your opinion but you can't say with any certainty until it actually happens.
Pre-season is the only time when results, by and large, do not really matter. Which is probably just as well for Celtic. In six games, including Saturday's 1-1 draw with Internazionale, Neil Lennon's side have won only once, scoring just three goals and conceding eight. At any other time of year statistics like that would be a cause for alarm but in the summer, when the onus is on players getting their fitness levels up and managers trying out different ideas, they are of secondary importance.
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