GET READY, CELTIC CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE ABOUT TO GO INTO OVERDRIVE
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 3 minutes ago
- 3 min read
I hope you all are well as you read this. I’m certainly well, as I write this!
Ok, I think we’ve milked that particular pun for all its worth.
For anyone who has been off planet for the last couple of days, Celtic won on Saturday, Rangers lost on Sunday, and Hearts struggled to an eventual, narrow win over a 9-man Hibs side.
These three games combine to set up what will be an absolutely enthralling long weekend of football next week. However, if is also a veritable all you can eat buffet for fans of Anti-Celtic Conspiracy Theories.
Celtic Conspiracy Theories Will Run Rampant Whatever Happens Next Weekend
Within minutes of the conclusion of this past weekend’s fixtures, banter had already given way to thinly veiled accusation.
Hibs fans joked about how many goals they should allow Celtic to win by at Easter Road next weekend in order to derail their city rival’s title charge.
Meanwhile, Rangers fans started to ask the question: “Should we throw the game against Hearts next Monday since they’ve still got a chance of stopping Celtic”.
The fact that this second point is even under active consideration by some Rangers fans is an utter embarrassment. It does however, validate what we discussed on Monday’s ACSOM Bulletin: “Rangers fans actually consider such things because they hate Celtic more than they love their own club.”
Sad, but probably true.
However, as funny as Sunday’s late Motherwell winner was, we cannot dismiss this version of Rangers just yet. If we don’t see off Hibs at Easter Road on Sunday, then Rangers manage to beat Hearts on Monday, they could, potentially, come to Celtic Park in less than 2 weeks knowing that a win could put them top of the league with 2 games to go.
This would be dependent on Hearts also failing to beat Motherwell that day, but I certainly wouldn’t rule that out either.
Now, that is the worst-case scenario, but let’s look at a best-case scenario.
If Celtic can beat Hibs, ideally by a couple of goals, then Rangers and Hearts play out a draw. We would be one point behind Hearts, with 3 games to go, and Hearts still to come to Celtic Park on the final day. It would also mean that a Celtic win against Rangers in the following Glasgow Derby would, if not mathematically, then in almost all other practical terms, end Rangers’ title challenge this season.
The potential for this outcome is another reason, on top of the numerous others I laid out previously, as to why the Union Bears and their gimp masks, should not be allowed anywhere near Celtic Park.
Of course, if Rangers were feeling charitable, then they could beat Hearts by a few goals, next week and put us top of the league in the process.
One has to wonder how the average Ibrox denizen’s brain (such as it is) handles such an existential crisis!
Like I said, there will conspiracies peddled and if the results go the way I think they will then we can expect various allegations of “lying down” and so on to be spread far and wide, with the usual amplification, of course, from the usual professional agitators in our tabloid press.
Celtic’s players, our management, and most of all our fans, need to shut this out all this whataboutery.
We need to win the next 4 games, with a goal difference of five more than Hearts in the process.
Do that, and we win the league. Whatever other teams do, and whatever fans of other clubs or their media cheerleaders say, become completely irrelevant.
This is Celtic’s title to win. The conspiracies are mere background noise.
