Celtic Should Not, And Will Not, Pay Any Attention To Ibrox’s “Injury Crisis.”

No sooner had the last SPL game before the cup final week ended but the Ibrox management team were engaged in the phony war. Ange didn’t bother doing the same. When asked about the squad status, he said we expected everyone to be fit.

The Mooch is claiming that half their midfield might be out. Pay no attention to a single word of it, they’ve been trying this nonsense on for the whole of the NewCo’s existence and way before. It is such a transparent strategy real managers no longer use it.

Expect a fully fit Ibrox midfield. Lundstram will be patched up if necessary and thrown in. Jack will be in the squad. Tillman will play even if he’s got a broken leg. There is no way he’s not going to be in their team. The Mooch knows this as well as we do.

It is amazing to me that these guys would attempt a con-job like this against people who have seen it all before. Ange isn’t going to let any of it bother him at all, he’ll prepare our team for the best possible Ibrox squad and tell them to ignore all this white noise.

In truth, I don’t think it matters who they have available or don’t. Even with rumours of Kyogo being absent, I still would have been confident of taking them. With a full-strength Celtic squad though, I’m doubly so and can hardly wait for kick off.

We’ll beat them if we turn up and play the way we are capable of.

If they do have a couple of injuries, this will just allow them to make pitiful excuses afterwards about how it would have been different with a full strength team; again, nobody at Celtic will be paying attention to any of it.