Let’s Be Clear: Celtic Fans Aren’t “Panicked” Over Ibrox’s Form. We’re Worried About Ours.

I knew this week would be unbearable.

I knew there would be utter rot written in the media. I don’t care about the criticism we’re getting; we deserve it, we earned every bit of it and even when it comes from complete headbangers there’s no appetite amongst any of the bloggers for defending the club from it.

Those in charge are reaping what they’ve sowed.

You know where the line is though? When what they write is such rubbish that it’s impossible to ignore and one of the narratives being pushed today has about as much truth in it as a Donald Trump speech and as many facts as a Keith Jackson column.

It’s the idea that Celtic fans are “panicking” over Ibrox’s form. It’s not true. We’re panicked for one reason only; the collapse in our own.

Let me offer a little context here. Since Clement took over, they’ve dropped points against Aberdeen. They needed a helping hand from the officials just to get a draw out of that.

They got some very fortuitous decisions yesterday. They were 1-0 down with a minute go against Hearts at home, and they needed VAR to bail them out of that.

Even with a little help from their friends, we’d have been further clear in the league race had our own form not self-destructed. The mess we’re in was born in our own house. Our problems start and finish at Celtic Park and if we can turn things around in terms of our own form, I have no doubt that we will win this title. The only question is, can we do that?

But the idea that we are somehow concerned by the “form” at Ibrox is laughable. Even when The Mooch was in charge over there, most of us accepted that our defeat against Kilmarnock had virtually handed them the League Cup, so it’s not some measure of progress over there that they won that.

Their club would have had its own hard questions to answer if they’d failed to, and although the media wants to airbrush that reality out of this it’s a fact nonetheless.

Anyone who has watched them knows they are terrible. Marginally better than us right now, but that’s no great compliment. Whatever “improvement” there’s been over there has been marginal at best, but marginal improvement is enough when we’ve gone backwards.

The person pushing this line most aggressively is Kenny Miller, and this is further evidence that his most potent impact on punditry has been to open a contest up with the Village Idiot as to who is the least intelligent person commenting on Scottish football.

That shouldn’t even be a contest, because the Village Idiot is so thick and so dreadful at the job that he should be out of sight … but Miller is giving him a run for his money, and that Sky is paying both of these yahoos shows you how thoroughly its Scottish Sports department stinks. It is in the hands of people who don’t value insight or even professionalism.

What a badge of honour. To have found two of the most biased, stupidest, least qualified ex-players in the whole country and given them gigs on your network.

Honestly, most of us realise we’re going to have eat dirt for a while, at least until we’ve arrested this situation and put ourselves in the drivers seat again, but this stuff is just rank rotten, and there’s no way we should have to swallow this.