As Celtic reigns in this glorious reality, the Ibrox fans wallow in fantasy.

Last night, as Celtic were basking in the beautiful reality of being in another cup final and on the brink of another treble, and the ninth for our club, and Brendan Rodgers’ third as manager, the media was doing what it does.

I’m going to do a more detailed piece on the 51% story which broke last night a little later on today … right now, I want to talk about two other stories.

As we were soaking up the rays at Hampden they were busily sunning themselves in Fantasyland, dreaming about the latest big time revelations in the so-called takeover deal. You know — the takeover deal that isn’t signed yet.

Still, these people continue to indulge in every bizarre fantasy it’s possible to kid yourself about. Reports this weekend — if we’re calling them reports, and I use that word in only the loosest possible sense — have focused on a guy who may or may not be involved in the takeover, who may or may not go to work there in the end, and who may or may not be part of the consortium.

I doubt he’ll sit around the boardroom table either, but hey.

That story was a Daily Record exclusive yesterday, and it had more holes in it than a packet of Polo Mints. There wasn’t a single verifiable fact in the whole piece. It was all “ifs, buts, and maybes.” If a takeover happens, he might want a job — although no one knows if he’ll leave Leeds to take it. But if he comes in, he might be excellent at whatever role it is that he supposedly will be working in.

I’m not joking, that was the upshot of the piece.I mean, in terms of a story with a lot of words that doesn’t actually say a single thing — that one was a beauty.

But not to be outdone, a couple of them were also blasting out the tale that José Mourinho is “in the running” to take the job. They claim he would be interested. This “exclusive” was from a clickbait blog … it has no real sources either, but for a brief moment it has helped to shift some newspapers.

Furthermore, do these people not know how Mourinho works?

Mourinho does this every time he’s facing the prospect of losing his current job. He puts his name out there and “expresses interest” in every gig going. Don’t forget, when Ange left, there were plenty of rumours that he was on Celtic’s radar and was interested in coming here. All of it was rubbish.

This is what Mourinho and his PR people do.

It fulfils no function except to get Ibrox fans terribly excited over not very much. The same outlet that was running that nonsense was also pushing a story about how much money they’ll spend in the summer transfer market. This is lunacy.

But on a day when we’d just reached another cup final, on a day when we’re closing in on a treble, this was music to the ears of the Ibrox faithful. “Don’t worry that the present is such a mess — the future’s going to be much better!”

And you can tell how much they need to hear that message by the fact that these were amongst the stories trending on their websites. These are the stories being picked up by fan media. Stories without a core of truth in them.

Stories that, quite frankly, should be filed under fiction.

The media gets away with this stuff because their fans allow it. Fans allow themselves to be lulled over and over again by these kinds of fairy tales.

Right now, none of us thinks it’s a coincidence that the whole fake-over story broke just days after Queen’s Park knocked them out of the Scottish Cup.

It is the only weapon that club has left in its dwindling arsenal — the way it can use the media to sell some fictitious narrative about the future, when the past is absolutely drowning them. It’s cynical, yes. But it’s also transparent, and it astonishes me that they fall for it again and again and again.

Anyone who read those articles today knows that there’s not a single fact in them. Not a single quote. Not a single piece of evidence that any of this is going to come to pass.

I mean, I can save them all the time right now. Mourinho is not going to be their manager. And whoever is their manager is not going to get to spend £30-40 million in the transfer market in a single window.

Those things will not happen.

At some stage — and I think it’s going to happen very, very shortly — the fans of that club are going to have to wise up and start dealing with the reality of where, who and what they are now. The reality of it. Not running from that reality into whatever Narnia the media is trying to sell them.

My suspicion grows that the takeover is a fakeover. I’ll discuss the latest “breaking news” in the saga later on. Because the story that broke last night is a beauty, and it deserves a piece all by itself.

The only thing I’m looking forward to more than seeing this unravel is us wrapping up the treble in the real world. Not in some mad fantasy, but right here in reality. The one they’re always trying to escape from. The one the rest of us live in.