Ten years after

New Celtic coach Alan Thompson hopes the Neil Lennon era will have the same immediate impact his former boss Martin O'Neill enjoyed at Parkhead. Thompson has returned to Parkhead as part of Lennon's backroom staff to help the former captain prepare for his first season in charge after being named as permanent manager last week. They now prepare to take  title back from Rangers following a period of dominance by their rivals – just like O'Neill had to do a decade ago.

Asked how long he thinks the new management team will take to turn things around, Thompson said: "Hopefully quite quickly. When I first came in, we had lost the league the season before to Rangers by 14 or 15 points. Martin came in and changed that around quite quickly. We have to try and do the same. We have to be positive about it. There is no point coming in if we don't believe we can do it. Neil, Johan Mjallby and myself are people who have been used to winning games and trophies in our careers so that's what we have got to try to instil in the squad."