Celtic Fans Enjoy St Patricks Day Hilarity As Exhausted Ibrox Team Sees Its Game Called Off.

You could not make this up.

Since Thursday, every Celtic fan I know has been saying the same thing; this Ibrox side looks absolutely dead on its feet.

They lost at home against Motherwell. They scraped through the Scottish Cup tie against Hibs who were on the end of some appalling decisions and Benfica beat them in midweek quite easily, with the Ibrox club barely getting a shot on target.

Today they were facing a scrap in Dundee. And the game was called off. Ibrox is stamping its feet in frustration and anger, but it’s so OTT that at least some of it is counterfeit. I suspect it all is. They are perfectly happy not to have to play that match. They’ve now got an extended two week break in which to get some energy back into weary legs.

Don Robertson did them a big, big favour this morning and all the drum banging over it will not change that fact.

Yes, they have to fit that game in somewhere now and they face a difficult choice about when to do so – the available dates are the midweek before we go to Ibrox and the midweek after we’ve been there – but both are better options than having their weary players travel to a tough away ground this afternoon where they’d have been tested.

Dundee’s chairman is furious. He thinks the game could have gone ahead. The Ibrox manager claims to be furious. Both clubs are telling the media that they wanted the game to go ahead and both felt that it could have. But Ibrox is also claiming that they support Robertson in calling it off because it would have endangered the safety of their players.

Dundee has just briefed the media that they wanted an extra hour to get the game on and the SPFL refused that request.

Of course they did. Their club is an afterthought here, this is about the title race after all and the desperation of some to see it end with the Ibrox players on the podium. There are people who would have seized on any excuse not to play that match this afternoon. If they thought they could get around it they would never play it before the split.

Celtic fans, many of whom are out enjoying St Patricks Day, are happy either way.

We go into the break top of the table. The Ibrox club’s next opponents are Hibs at home, and every player in the Edinburgh club’s team will want to avenge that disgusting match at Easter Road.

Will they be able to get points? We’ll find out, but the following day we’ll have a chance to go back top regardless, and then we’ll see when the Dundee game is scheduled for.

This lot can run but they cannot hide. Celtic has started to play football again, and although we’re going to have to be careful not to run into John Beaton too often, we know what we have to do, and the clock is ticking down. If we win at Livingston, we will go to Ibrox knowing that a win will find us top of the league, even if they have a game in hand.