Celtic Fans Are More Behind The Team Than Ever After The Weekend’s Absurd Decisions.

For weeks now, the media has accused Brendan Rodgers of trying to instil a “siege mentality” at Celtic Park, and for weeks now we’ve been countering that claim with the truth that you don’t have to create something that exists already.

You don’t have to artificially invent something that’s real. What else do you have but a siege mentality when you’re actually under siege?

Two weeks ago, if someone had told us that we would lose at Tynecastle, Celtic fans would have been outraged at the team and at the club itself and ready for all-out revolt. At the start of the weekend, if someone told us that the Ibrox club would lose at home and that we would not be able to capitalise on it, I don’t think the mood would have been much better.

But today the mood amongst Celtic fans is grimly determined and angry, because we know what we watched at the weekend and it was nothing to do with the players not being up to the job.

What we witnessed were two of the worst refereeing decisions in years, and they had a definite impact on the match and on the result. This wasn’t the result of a bad display, at least not on the part of the Celtic players, and recognising that has kept us focussed.

The news that the SFA are considering disciplining Rodgers further reinforces the view that we are held to a different standard than certain other clubs. How can anyone doubt it after what the side across the city has done, and gotten away with, over the last couple of years?

And they are going after Rodgers for essentially saying what half the media has been saying, the half that cares about standards and isn’t just sniggering from the sidelines?

There are some – like Barry Ferguson and Souness, about whom I’ll write more later – who want you to think that it was a great weekend for the Ibrox club.

Forget about them for now. We would be top of the league had it not been for that stinking officiating, and although there will be concerns that we’ve not seen the last of the Honest Mistakes for the season that knowledge will keep morale high until the weekend and beyond.

All that stuff will be important as we head into the next few weeks. The fans the team and the manager are still united despite the best efforts of the media and the incompetence of our own board of directors, who haven’t been forgotten in all this.

If we win this league, the media and our external enemies will get theirs. The board … well, they best not think that they will share the credit. They have a different fate awaiting them.