We Made The Media Look Like Mugs
No matter what nonsense you’ve read in the last week, one thing is for absolute certain; there has been a recalibration in how the two teams were being judged based on their summer business and their ability to win the title.
Celtic was treated like an afterthough; I’ve never seen anything like it.
The media is trying desperately not to focus overmuch on these matters but if you read carefully you’ll see that there has been a re-evaluation. Frankly, we made them look absolutely ridiculous with their pre-match predictions overwhelmingly in favour of the Ibrox club.
What we’ve forced them to accept is that this Celtic team is still far and away the strongest side in the country and that we are capable of going to any ground, even under the most intense pressure, and coming back with a win.
That we were written off beforehand simply makes their reversal all the more noticeable and acute.
Even pro-Ibrox writers on the mainstream blogs – like Jonathon McFarlane – now refer to their own side as “the underdogs” again, although he tried to find a pathetic positive in them wearing that tag. There isn’t one though.
Look at the coverage of the Kent signing; we all know that coverage has been hysterical and OTT, but in that coverage is a tacit admission that their squad wasn’t – and still isn’t – up to par. It’s the closest they’ll come to accepting that the summer of hype was exactly what this site and others said that it was; sheer wishful thinking, seen through the bluest tint.
That single result has erased an entire close season of hyping the Ibrox squad.
It’s only “now” with Kent in the ranks that they truly are “ready”, and everyone knows that’s rank nonsense as well. One thing is for sure, whatever high hopes they have for their own team … none of them is going to dare underestimate Celtic for a while to come.
That’s the first shift that’s taken place.
Don’t think it’s not an important one.