It was a quick hello and goodbye in the end but Celtic fan Liam Burt waved goodbye to the club for the second time during his career after the player was let go this summer.

Brought in just last year after a stint at the other side of Glasgow, Burt was given an opportunity within the system to make the grade at Celtic.

It’s very hard to bring your game on and be given a chance at the moment with Celtic and Scottish football’s reserve system in disarray. There was no league season last year after the bhoys pulled out it, meaning it was bounce games and the odd Glasgow cup fixture the younger players had to work with.

Burt knew it was going to be a tough ask to get into the Celtic team but he tried his all. Being a Celtic fan, the midfielder knows how much is at stake. His only regret is the season ending when it did. Celtic were thirteen points clear at the top of the SPFL and comfortably closing in on nine in a row. Had the games continued as normal, he, and others may have been handed some first team game time.

“I wasn’t going to Celtic expecting to be first-team right away, I knuckled down but it was going to be hard and it proved that”  Burt explained to the Glasgow Times.

“It’s completely understandable that I didn’t play with 10 in a row and so much at stake.

“I’ll never know what might have happened had the league continued, but the virus stopped that. I might have got a wee opportunity”