The Last Word With Laith Al Naeme

The Last Word With Laith Al Naeme

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WHAT a feeling! Celtic returned home on Saturday and I’m sure we can all agree it felt pretty good. Brendan’s Bhoys turned on the style in front of a sellout crowd and Stuart Armstrong marked his return to the starting line-up with a deserved Man of the Match performance.

He was on target along with Moussa Dembele and Tom Rogic to help move the Champions one step closer towards securing another Premiership title.

AS Joe Sullivan put it in last week’s View, if you’re a Scot, ’international football’ and ‘entertained’ are words that very rarely crop up in the same sentence.

If you’re Iraqi, then, sadly, it doesn’t really make it any better either. To put it gently, the Lions of Mesopotamia don’t play the Brendan Rodgers way. Their style, mixed with their manager changeability (17 over the past 10 years!) has prevented the nation from blossoming on the big stage.

But one thing that international football does produce for me is a feeling of joy and patriotism. That, plus the fact it gives me an excuse to bring up my beloved Iraq in The Last Word … as if I ever needed one!