Celtic Has Rolled Out The Big Guns For Tomorrow In A Move To Shock The SFA.

It is not often that Celtic will get word to the media of anything that they are doing behind the scenes, unless they want to deliver a very specific message, and I don’t think any of us can be in the least doubt about the message they’ve sent today.

They have made sure that the SFA is fully aware of the legal team it has assembled for the Brendan Rodgers hearing tomorrow, and they’ve made sure that the rest of us are too. There is little question that the club has wheeled out the big guns here.

Not before time. The decision to charge Rodgers is a travesty. The decision to award Don Robertson our very next game after the hearing is a flat-out, open insult. They aren’t even hiding that fact.

Nick De Marco’s hiring shows how seriously we’re taking it.

Tonight, The Record, as per usual, is spinning things the way it wants. It has Peter Grant rounding on “conspiracy crackpots” except that’s not what Grant has said at all of course.

The word “crackpots” never left his lips, that’s a Daily Record lie, and all to bury the point Grant was making which is that if Rodgers is punished by depriving him of a place in the dugout for Ibrox people are going to be making all sorts of claims. Of course we are.

Nobody who is on the outside looking in at this doubts that it stinks. Two former refs have already accused the governing body of “arrogance” for sticking us with Robertson for the Livingston game; it is way beyond arrogance, of course.

That reeks of vindictiveness, not decisiveness. If they were going to show that they’d have given a Collum a game against Ibrox before now.

The thing is, a lot of us are pretty sure that we’re watching a rigged game here. If we’re not, if we are all “conspiracy crackpots” that should be fairly easy to prove. But the evidence in our favour just keeps on piling up. Celtic sees it. Our lawyer sees it. He wouldn’t have taken our case on if he didn’t think that there was some merit in it. These guys don’t like to lose.

So it’s into battle we go tomorrow, with a top-notch mind leading the way. And this can’t be allowed to go down as the final word either, it has got to be the start of something.

The people who brought us before this charge are still around, and so are those who caused Rodgers to say his piece, knowing what it might lead to. They are the real problem.

And until we find a solution to that, this doesn’t end tomorrow, whatever the outcome.