There is a group of special visitors coming to Glasgow next month: the Harlem Globetrotters.

The world-famous American exhibition basketball team have been on the go since 1926. According to the brochure, the Globetrotters will combine athleticism with theatre in their style of play.

Sound familiar? Scottish football has its very own version of the Globetrotters and they're already residing in Glasgow.

For 27 minutes of their latest Scottish Premiership 4-1 success at Rugby Park against Kilmarnock, Celtic played a brand of wonderful exhibition football. It was breathtaking stuff on a synthetic surface which took the breath away at times. Go figure. Go Celtic.

The Hoops chalked up 102 goals for the season so far as they moved 12 points clear at the Premiership summit... again. A second successive Scottish Premiership title edges ever nearer for Ange Postecoglou's team.

There was even a missed Kyogo Furuhashi penalty to boot as 17 domestic wins in a row were tucked in the hipper; exhibition and hall of fame statistics indeed.

The only team to have scored more goals at this point in a campaign than Postecoglou's team? Just Jock Stein's legendary class of 1966-67, that's who. That team did alright.

Willie Maley's great 1915-16 side banged in 20 goals in their last six matches to end the campaign with a 38-game record of 116. Postecoglou's team have six games left to score 14 and surpass that mark.

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A lot has been made about the so-called gap between Celtic and Rangers. Domestically when the Hoops are in this sort of mood no team comes close to them. Not even Michael Beale's Light Blues.

For half an hour in Ayrshire, they were on a different football planet than any other side in the country. It was scintillating stuff. It was the quintessential rip-roaring, free-scoring, never-boring Glasgow Celtic.

Kyogo's opener, a Daizen Maeda header which made it 100 goals for the league season and a double from Matt O'Riley only told half the story as the champions put Derek McInnes's men to the sword quicker than it takes to watch an episode of Coronation Street.

Granted, there is no soap opera at Parkhead these days. This is a Celtic team that plays with its identity on its sleeve. The badge demands that the team play the Celtic way and Postecoglou has raised that to a stratospheric standard.

When they are at it, like they were against Kilmarnock in the opening 30 minutes, it really is a joy to watch. You can only sit back and admire.

It is a form of electric boogaloo football. Postecoglou's Hoops certainly know how to lead every Scottish opposition in a merry dance that's for sure. Celtic were in tune at Rugby Park and then some.

Celtic Way:

Every player seems comfortable in their own skin at this club and they know how to bring what Posteoglou deems 'our brand of football' to the table every week regardless of the personnel. When Celtic smell blood there is no stopping them and they set about their task with a zest and vigour and blew Kilmarnock away with a dynamic display of raw energy.

"It was an outstanding first half, the boys were brilliant," as Postecoglou said afterwards. "Our football, our attitude and our intent were all there. We had a big game last week and we were kind of looking to make sure the boys were still focused and we were outstanding.

"I mentioned before the game we needed some energy and the guys coming in gave us that and the whole group in general came out with real intent. It was a big win last weekend and there is always the danger that the boys were not right at it but they were brilliant."

Brilliant indeed. One can only wonder what South Korea national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann made of it all. The legendary German World Cup winner was a surprise guest at Rugby Park as he continued on his European mission of watching his international charges in action.

Klinsmann hailed Oh Hyeon-gyu a 'very special talent' and branded Celtic a massive club in the process after watching the Hoops attacker feature in the two recent international matches against Colombia and Uruguay.

Oh did not score against Killie but he was given 45 minutes which will have pleased the national coach greatly. Klinsmann also witnessed the very definition of a Celtic team piling on the agony and putting on the style, as the famous song says.

The Harlem Globetrotters will ride into Glasgow next month and strut their funky stuff on the court - but there is already a team like that doing it on the turf.

Sticking with basketball, two-time NBA champion and former MVP Bill Walton was once asked to sum up what makes the Boston Celtics a special team. In response, he said this: "It's the way they play, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans."

Walton played in Boston while legendary coach Red Auerbach was the team president. It was Auerbach who once remarked that the Celtics 'were not just a basketball team but a way of life'.

For the Boston Celtics, read Ange Postecoglou's Glasgow Celtic. 

The way they play, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans. Celtic are not just a football team, they are a way of life.

That's exactly the way Postecoglou intended it to be all along.