Luck deserts Celtic as Arsenal seize control

This morning, Tony Mowbray looked out of his window, saw the clouds and the threat of rain, and though "a bit of rain will help our game tonight". He made his breakfast, ate it, enjoyed it, and began the journey to the Lennoxtown training centre in a buoyant, if not overly-confident mood.

But, somewhere along the way, he must have ran over a black cat.