Celtic Fans Have Stopped Expecting Credit From The Managers We Beat.

Yesterday I watched, for the second time since the game ended, the extended highlights.

At the end I switched it off before the Hearts manager said a word. I might as well not have listened to him the first time he spoke, because I could have written his statement for him.

A few weeks ago he poured the highest praise on Sevco. He never does that for us.

It is hard to recall – save for the Hibs manager the other week, who was a class act and full of praise for our players – the last time a beaten boss didn’t focus on the negatives of his own team but gave us some credit. Such was the rarity of what Lee Johnson said that it sticks in the mind. We have trounced teams this season and gotten not one word of commendation.

Listen, we don’t need positive reinforcement. We’re a good side and we know it.

Neilson might not have been able to bring himself to credit us, but we scored four times against his side and put the ball in the net another twice … all from open play.

He might think it was close, and others in the media might claim that it was, but his side scored twice from the spot and other than that barely troubled our goal. We were much the better team.

The same applies to those other games this season where we’ve won and been given no praise. In some of them we’ve been absolutely devastating; all people wanted to do in the aftermath was make excuses for the opposition and cast doubt on us.

Back then it was all about “you’ve not been tested yet.”

What’s their excuse now? If you believe some of these halfwits we scraped through the game.

They are entitled to that view, but they should know that we’re going to call it out for the nonsense it is.