Celtic and Hearts have heaped the pressure on Ibrox for tomorrow.

“Result. All that matters.” That is what some people sent me today in response to my article on Celtic’s game earlier on.

In some ways, they are correct.

Because, look, nobody is talking about flowing football and a great performance after you have dropped points. It could have been a great performance with flowing football, but if we had not won the game nobody would be happy tonight.

As it is, I am not unhappy. I am frustrated.

Nevertheless, three points is three points, and it has come at a time when we cannot afford to drop anything.

So those points are important in every way that matters. They have kept us in second place. They have kept us within touching distance of Hearts. Although, for someone who has talked about goal difference not mattering, I am looking at the goal difference column and starting to feel a little nervous. I still do not think it will be the deciding factor, but we are leaving an awful lot to chance here.

Even so, we can look ahead to the coming week knowing that nothing is going to alter the league table tonight. We are going into the split three points behind Hearts. The question is how we are going into the split in relation to the club across the city, and tomorrow will tell the tale there.

That is going to be quite an important match for them. They will play the identical fixture on the final day of the campaign, so maybe we are going to learn a little about what that game will look like.

We will certainly learn tomorrow how they deal with pressure.

They are under more pressure than they have been under in quite a while.

Celtic still look very ropey, and Hearts are not exactly in top form, especially away from home.

There is an expectation around that club, and that is exactly where they tend to fall over their own feet. The Ibrox club is very, very good at falling over its own feet. It is very good at blowing apart when the stakes are high and the pressure is on, and I am hoping this is another example of that.

Yesterday they had a little crying session over their injuries. They should have a look at ours if they want to see something worth complaining about. But it is so typical of the Ibrox club to find something to deploy early as a potential excuse.

It is their method all over, and you recognise it a mile away.

They are definitely feeling the nerves as we get closer to the end here. Falkirk will give them a tough game and push them very hard. That still might not get Falkirk a result, but it will certainly give the Ibrox club something to think about, and it will not be easy.

If the Ibrox club gets a victory, they will feel emboldened going into their little week off, which is being painted as some kind of great win for them. They are taking the team to Spain to do a little rest and recuperation.

If I were on that plane, every moment of that journey would remind me that I was a loser, that I was only on that plane because my team was not good enough to get to the cup semi-final. When you consider that it was a weakened Celtic side that beat them, missing key players including the captain, that is a pretty damning statement about where their club is that they are on that plane at all.

Their fans can kid themselves all they like that the trip is going to fortify them for a title run-in.

All it really proves is that they were not good enough to be at Hampden. They missed out on Hampden in the League Cup as well by being just as bad as they were in the Scottish Cup. They went out of both tournaments ludicrously early. So while we will be preparing for a cup semi-final, they will be abroad, sunning themselves and pretending that it is not a major downer. Whatever helps them sleep at night.

Anything other than a win tomorrow is a disaster for the Ibrox club.

They will not frame it that way, and they will pretend it is not as bad as that.

Yet it would be a disaster if they have to go away knowing they have blown it again. The trip itself will be a thoroughly miserable experience.

I do not want to get into numbers, implications and possibilities before that game has actually been played.

We can talk about all of that at length afterwards if they do drop points.

But for today, we have won and Hearts have won. It does not matter that our margin of victory was not great.

It doesn’t matter that the performance itself was flat, boring and awful. We put the points on the board and now they are under real pressure to do the same.

You get the feeling that anything could happen in this title race now.

It is over to Ibrox to see if they can keep pace with ourselves and Hearts.

They are feeling the heat like they have not felt it in a long time.