Celtic and Rangers look back in business Plus the fact, they have been reminded that if you concede the opening goal to a side of Juve's defensive calibre you can spend the rest of the night doing everything right and still lose. And Lennon didn't quite get everything right. Efe Ambrose's game head had been left behind in Johannesburg, an absence that gifted Juve two goals and deprived Celtic of reward from their best opportunity. The manager, no doubt, has also looked at Kelvin Wilson's positioning at the first goal and seen that, had the defender reacted more quickly to Ambrose being stranded, he would have had a better chance of averting the danger. But Lennon need not beat himself up unduly. His coaching development has been fast tracked impressively and, had Georgios Samaras been available, the Juve back line would have had a more demanding evening. Lennon and his players can still make a point in Turin, dead rubber or not, and a decent result would swell the Parkhead treasure chest, which was revealed to be bursting with Uefa doubloons on the eve of the game. Had Celtic not qualified for the group stage of the Champions League there would have been cutbacks and job losses at Parkhead. Instead, the club is effectively debt-free, which means that - for the first time in who knows how long? - both Celtic and Rangers have no worries about warning letters from the bank. If you take your glass half full, the economic situation is splendidly healthy for the Glasgow clubs, but that cannot be noted without the necessary caveat that, while Celtic observed fiscal discipline and traded prudently to get into such shape, a great many of Rangers" creditors saw their money flushed down the toilet by Craig Whyte before Charles Green could boast that his newly acquired club was cash rich. Business is business and, as Stewart Regan remarked more than once last summer - when the SFA chief executive attempted to broker a speedy return to the top flight for Rangers - we are where we are. Rangers have marked the anniversary of their collapse into insolvency by emphasising, wherever possible, how they have revived since the summer, as they are entitled to do. That positive projection has been rather obscured by the revelation that, aside from bleeding Rangers dry, Whyte was also acting as a copy editor and prospective employment agency for a tabloid newspaper. But it would be gratifying to see the club make some sort of regular gesture to the little local businesses who took substantial hits because of the excesses of the two previous regimes. Green and his new investors are under no obligation to seek out creditors of the old regime and pay them back - in fact, there are legal risks in doing so - but it would cost nothing to invite the newsagent round the corner, the sign painters, the nearby pharmacy and such like, to attend a game or two as guests of the board. It might be a small gesture in the grand scheme of things but since Rangers make a great play out of the continuity of the club, as opposed to the business, it would be an act of decency to mend fences with some of the unsung casualties of last year's St Valentine's Day massacre of the trust placed in what was once a substantial Scottish institution.