It wasn't spoken about enough because it got lost in the vortex of Celtic clinching the Scottish Premiership title in style with a 6-0 win over Motherwell on the last day of the season.

What am I talking about? I'll tell you exactly what I am talking about: Anthony Ralston's exquisitely timed and sublime chipped pass to Kyogo, who volleyed home the third goal to make it 3-0 on the day.

It was the day the transformation of  Ralston was complete.

A player so shorn of confidence this time last season that he was allegedly heading for the Celtic exit door.

Unconvincing loan spells at St Johnstone and Dundee United only served to hasten his departure as Ange Postecoglou swept in.

Fast forward 12 months and Ralston is like Celtic's new version of the prodigal son.

A Scottish Premiership title winner, a League Cup winner and a Scotland international capped star and goalscorer for his country to boot.

Ralston's rise has been almost biblical under Postecoglou, who saw something in him to the extent that - even with a year's extension already triggered by virtue of being the only right-back at the time - he handed him a new deal through to 2025.

Contrast that situation to the utter gallusness and swagger of that Ralston pass to Kyogo that day.

There was something so Postecoglou's Celtic about it.  There was something inherently beautiful about it.

Ralston himself would probably not have tried that kind of manoeuvre a year previous. It's a world-class pass. End of.

He has reframed the narrative so much so that he has become a real fan's favourite in the eyes of the faithful.

The lad never lets his manager, his team-mates or the supporters down whenever he puts on the Celtic jersey.

Every Celtic supporter has a still framed image of Ralston leaping like a salmon to head the 97th-minute winner in Dingwall to hand the club a vital Premiership win last season against Ross County in December. The celebrations that followed are the stuff of legend.

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It is, frankly, astonishing that he is now vying for the same position as the Croatia international right-back Josip Juranovic (a reported £15million target for Spanish giants Atletico Madrid).

What price Ralston then?

The turnaround in football fortune really couldn't happen to a nicer guy either. Fatherhood has had a profound effect on him. The father figure that is Postecoglou has also had a similar effect.

His is one of the best feel-good stories in Scottish football's living memory, especially for hopeless football romantics like me.

It was a simple moment but there was something that tugged the heartstrings during Celtic's 4-2 pre-season win over Banik Ostrava.

When skipper Callum McGregor left the field and he looked for a candidate to toss the armband to.

After a quick consultation with the manager, he handed it to Ralston.

Football is built on such poignant and wonderful moments. No Celtic supporter could ever grudge him his moment.

He was the proverbial punchbag that Celtic supporters (and pundits) had rained verbal blows down on not all that long ago.

As Postecoglou said in the aftermath of Ralston scoring that winner in Dingwall: "He's a warrior, he's a soldier, he loves this football club and he wants to make a career for himself."

'The brickie' has come out swinging and laid the foundations for a glorious future Celtic career.

Warrior, soldier, Scotland international... call him what you will.

Here's another name that Ralston can proudly add to that burgeoning list: Celtic captain.

Nobody can ever take that accolade away from him.

He has earned it the hard way and that should be held up as the beacon of light for any young starry-eyed football hopeful.

Any player suffering from self-doubt they should be made to watch Ralston's pass on a loop... it's genuinely that good.

And if Scottish football is ever looking for a patron saint of lost causes then Anthony Ralston is surely the prime candidate.

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