His Article Quickly Spirals Into “What If …” Fantasy Land Delirium.
“Let’s play devil’s advocate. Celtic reach the Champions League this season (and next) which is of couse where players want to be, and certainly the directors, but the extra games, unavoidable injuries, key players missing out, means that nine and ten in a row don’t happen.”
This is the crux of the piece, a “what if?” scenario so discredited that his editor should have told him to go off and write something real.
Celtic has made the Group Stages of one of the European competitions in every single one of the eight in a row campaigns.
Every single one of them.
It has never made the slightest difference to our title prospects.
Furthermore, on top of playing more qualifying matches than ever before we progressed to the knockout stages in the last two seasons, which is two more games on top of the schedule again … and don’t forget that said schedule took us to Hampden more times than the Queens Park bus.
No club in the history of Scottish football has ever won so much playing so many matches as we have in the last three years.
That is a fact.
On top of that, the injury crisis he hypothesises has happened in the last two seasons.
Somehow we were able to survive both.
The scenario he’s playing with here is based on nothing but wishful thinking.