Celtic crush Dundee Utd to go four clear

‘But that’s how it is here and everybody has to cope with it. You need character to do what we did today.

Commons was once more the centre of attention with two goals, three days after his furious reaction to being substituted in Norway that brought a public apology. “Now we have turned it around and that’s something we should be proud of”.

“We did not do the things we had to in order to eliminate the quality and movement of Celtic players”.

“There are big demands here at Celtic”.

On what appeared to be a diplomatic ditching of the “Ronny Roar”, Deila said: “I haven’t done it every time”. We are winning cups as well.

He has no shortage of pressure on his own shoulders, with Celtic having committed to a hefty £5.5m package to secure his services from Dinamo Zagreb, another team well used to having to deal with expectation from the fans.

There were a lot of fearless players out there.

Christie said: “I always watched Celtic anyway, being a fan, but now I’m really keen to watch them just to see the way they play”. I need to perform every week. Today, I didn’t feel like it. I just didn’t feel for it today and that’s my thing. It will come back’.

Goals from Leigh Griffiths, Dedryck Boyata a Kris Commons brace and an own goal from Reading loanee Aaron Kuhl gave Celtic a resounding victory to keep put them four points clear of Aberdeen in the table – after they drew 1-1 with Motherwell yesterday.

“It’s a big week but we are all focused”.

Deila, meanwhile, had nothing to add to reports that Celtic have been involved in initial talks with the North American Soccer League (NASL) about entering a U.S. franchise when the second tier of the sport in the United States of America expands from 11 teams to 18 in 2018.

‘When the results aren’t there, especially in Europe, it looks like things are not going well.

He admits that Hearts are one of the most improved sides in the country and indicated that his team will have to work hard to get past them in the League Cup quarter-final tomorrow at Tynecastle.

“We should have won that game, but it’s a different game away”.