That We Cannot Count On A “Level Playing Field” Next Season.
The number of incidents, this season, in which players who have committed brutal fouls on our players is ridiculously high. The witch-hunt against Scott Brown has reached dazzling proportions. The Ibrox club racked up a huge number of red cards; just as significant were the number of times their players got away with stuff no other club’s footballers would have.
And this is only the beginning. Operation Stop The Ten gets more intense the closer we are to the number, and if this season was bad you can only imagine what next season will bring, especially if we have Neil Lennon – no stranger to being singled out by the media and the authorities both – sitting in the dugout.
Our enemies will go all-in to stop this.
Celtic hasn’t done nearly enough to push for the kind of reforms that would ensure transparency and take this element out of the equation. As a result, it is this – and not what any club might do – which seems to represent the biggest, and most obvious, danger to our chances of success.
An SFA which allows our players to be brutalised whilst also punishing us for any indiscretion, can shave points off us better than any opposition striker can. This potential for this is so obvious that it is frankly astounding that we’ve yet to tackle it properly.
If we don’t do it by the start of the next campaign, we are putting ourselves at the mercy of people who think elbowing our captain in the face is a booking. I cannot think of anything more dangerous than that, and it will cost us big time unless we act.