There Is Pride At Stake For A Lot Of These Guys
Oh this is the big one alright, and don’t underestimate its importance, and the club at Ibrox will do so at its own extreme peril.
Some of these Celtic players have been Invincibles.
Some are double treble winners.
Some are treble treble winners and others are quadruple treble winners.
This is a proud group of footballers and they should be because that kind of success is without precedent.
Pride does come into this.
These players have seen two trophies surrendered and nothing can be done about those, but the Scottish Cup is something that we’re going to need to have pried from our hands and these players do not want to give that up meekly.
They want to prove that they are still winners.
They do not want this proud era to end in such total and utter failure.
They don’t want to be remembered for this.
Which is why I expect that every single one of them will go above and beyond here and give us everything they have.
For themselves, as much as anything else.
Because these guys know they have sold themselves short and that those who stay want to lay a foundation and those who want to go want to go out in triumph, instead of on the back of such a shameful campaign.