Ten goals, six for the Celts, and five for Ruben Jerome, gave a feast for the spectators.

The website records don’t go back far enough to find another player who scored five in one match, putting Jerome in a special category and top of the league goal scorers chart.

The first half gave no indication of what was to come. Celtic dominated the first half, with Jerome opening the floodgates inside ten minutes moments after Sam Booth had denied Ellis Horan. Liam Tongue’s lofted ball into the box saw Jerom bring it down, turn his marker and place the ball beyond Booth. Mike Koral outpaced everybody including his own team, so took the shot himself, flashing past the far post, before his next run, where he checked, waited for Jerome, found him and Jerome fired in the second. Booth kept Trafford in the hunt by twice denying Jack Irlam and getting a fingertip to Tongue’s rocket. Ten minutes before the interval, Jerome selflessly found Tongue in the box, but with his path blocked, Tongue gave it back, and Jerome curled in a third. There was still time in the half for Booth to smother Irlam’s low drive, Jack Byrne to head a free kick wide and Booth to somehow reach Jerome’s tap in at the far post.

Three up, Celtic came out to lax in the second half, and Trafford capitalised early on running rampant for ten minutes, with Henry Brown taking advantage of a lax pass from Jack Tinning right to him, he raced one-on-one with Charlie Monks and though the Celtic keeper forced him wide, he cut his shot back and pulled a goal back for the home side. That didn’t last, as Celtic got their foot back on the gas, and Jerome finished of a team move. Benni Smales-Braithwaite found Ruben, who played a neat one-two, before curling into the top corner.

The three goal cushion seemed to cause Celtic to lapse back into lackadaisical mode, and concede a sloppy goal from a simple cross to Kieron Molloy at the back post. However, the three goal cushion was restored, with Jerome entering the record books, putting his body in harms way to force Smales-Braithwaite’s cross past a fumbling Booth. Horan twice went close, with one shot just about clearing the bar off the desperate head of Theo Farquharson. Horan did get his goal when Elliot Rokka’s cross was palmed by Booth, falling to Horan to smash home from close range.

Two minutes left on the clock, 6-2 on the score sheet, Celtic can be forgiven for taking their foot off the gas. And Kieron Molloy got a desultory hattrick with two goals in two minutes, but neither he, nor the remaining fans celebrated as Celtic climbed to seventh with two or three games in hand on those above us.