UNFINISHED BUSINESS: TIME IS NOW FOR CELTIC GLASGOW DERBY REVENGE
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 2 hours ago
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A wee reminder to any lurkers (yes, we see you) Celtic won the league last weekend, becoming the first team in Scotland to win 55 titles.
However, Rangers fans continue to claim some kind of “bragging rights” on account of their two Glasgow Derby victories over Celtic so far this calendar year.
We’ll be kind and ignore the fact that they haven’t beaten Celtic in a derby that actually mattered since 2021.
Nonetheless, this leaves Celtic with some unfinished business this coming Sunday.
Celtic Glasgow Derby Performances the Only Blight on an Otherwise Excellent Season
Indeed, probably the only thing missing from Celtic’s continuing absolute domination of Scottish football this season has been the anticipated comprehensive skelping of Rangers.
I hope this will be corrected this coming weekend. Still, Celtic need to prepare, and we need to be in the right headspace.
For us, this game has no actual benefit. It is one of 4 league games that, ultimately have no bearing on our season.
We’ve already won the league.
However, for our neighbors across the city, this game is everything. It is the one thing, the only thing, left in their season that has any significance.
I would point to that as a sign of how far ahead of them we really are, however the media have, since January, constructed this narrative that Rangers have some kind of hold over Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic.
One would have to ask, if that’s the case, then how come Rangers have lost to teams like St. Mirren, Kilmarnock, et al?
Still, the best way to silence such critics is on the pitch. That is our mission for this weekend.
We will probably have to do so without Jota. But I haven’t given up hope on him yet.
Despite what the press says, I’ll wait until I actually here from an official source about the extent of the Portuguese winger’s injury.
Personally, I’d love to see Adam Idah score the winner.
He’s made an impact at Ibrox before, and I believe he can do it again. Daizen will do what Daizen does, if he has to play on the left flank.
Also, what better time for James Forrest to get his record-breaking goal than next Sunday?
We won’t get a guard of honor, even though we should.
Instead, I’ll settle for Rangers unironically walking out to “Simply the Best” before we proceed to remind them exactly why we are and always shall be the best in Scotland.
Bring it on.