The Cameron Carter Vickers Injury Story Is Not A Big Issue For Celtic This Season.

Well, this morning the media made yet another attempt to scare us all as if we were easily frightened children. They did this with a piece on the possibility that Cameron Carter Vickers might have to go under the knife.

What’s in front of us that this should be a concern?

The cup semi-final? The stories themselves make it clear that this will not happen before that game.

He will play at Hampden. So what else? Ibrox? By the time we get there the demoralisation of their team will be just about complete. I don’t think a single Celtic fan fears going there whoever is in the back line.

The more you look at it, the more you see that this really isn’t a lot for us to get our knickers in a knot over. He’s a cracking big player, and perhaps even a player of the year contender, but this is why we have strength in depth. It’s why we signed Kobayashi.

The team will cope. The club will cope.

It’s only the one across town which wails and moans about having injury issues and uses them as something to hide behind.

We are just about over the line in the league. The cup final will take care of itself if we get there … Cameron Carter Vickers has been an essential cog in the wheel getting us here, no doubt.

But we do not need him, beyond next weekend, to get the last bit of the job done.

None of us should be lying awake at night worrying about this. The manager has assembled a team which can cope with a few injuries. The question is, will he be back fully fit and ready to go at the start of the next campaign?

If he is, we have no cause for concern.