Chris Sutton has slammed the Green Brigade over their "petted lip" response to Brendan Rodgers' Celtic return.
The former Liverpool and Leicester boss will be officially unveiled as Celtic manager for the second time this afternoon.
And while the majority of the Celtic support are backing a return for Rodgers, fan group the Green Brigade shared an image of a banner branding the former boss a "fraud" after his controversial exit for Leicester in 2019.
Rodgers left Celtic mid-season with fans left reeling over his departure, with a banner directed at the manager reading: "You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt. Always a Fraud."
Now, Sutton has hammered the Green Brigade response to Rodgers' return as he slammed the "snippy" reaction as a "waste of time".
In his Daily Record column, Celtic hero Sutton wrote: "It looks like not everyone is fully on board with Brendan Rodgers coming back to Celtic when you look at the snippy response from the Green Brigade.
"They are not shy about coming forward and voicing their opinions and reappointing the former manager seems to have gone down like a lead balloon with some of them.
"They’ve made their feelings known – and they can do what they like – but I will ask them this: what is the point? What are they going to achieve with negativity at a time when the club would be pulling together after Ange Postecoglou’s departure?"
In his scathing verdict, Sutton continued: "The petted-lip routine from some is a total waste of time. If the Celtic board are going to back Rodgers with a big chequebook to make the side even better – then they should give their backing as well.
"I just don’t get the point of backlash. It was okay to be critical when Rodgers departed last time. Listen, I was critical as well and stand by that criticism.
"But we are four years on. Is Rodgers to be castigated from now until the end of time? Is he to be publicly flogged forever more? What do these fans want?
"It’s taken huge balls to come back to Celtic this soon. It would have been far easier for him to keep his distance and if he really wanted another shot in the hotseat, do it years down the line. Instead he’s taken the challenge and the fans should at least accept it and look forward to an exciting future.
"Rodgers will face the media and the fans and I’ve heard some people saying he should apologise. Give me a break. We know the way he left wasn’t great, with the side in the hunt for a Treble, but Neil Lennon managed to finish it off.
"Rodgers can’t be held accountable for the failure to win 10-in-a-row – it was two years down the line, for goodness sake."
