The fixture list is out and the “Celtic have it easy” squealing has begun.

So the fixture list has dropped, and most Celtic fans looking at it are pretty pleased. We got Falkirk at home, Hibs away, the Ibrox club at home, Motherwell away and then, in the move that has everyone else moaning, the final-day game against Hearts, and that has seriously upset a lot of the fans across town, who will start their five game run with Motherwell at home before away visits to Tynecastle and Celtic Park.

To say they are not happy over there is an understatement. It is fantastic to hear them squeal.

From our point of view, it’s about as good as we could have hoped for: will that final game be a league decider? It very well could be. A lot of people are already pencilling it in as one. That’s the thing. The Ibrox club is crying because it thinks it has the tougher start. We may well have the tougher finish. We’ll just have to see how it all plays out.

The thing that amuses me most is that final fixture. The idea that Hearts have to come to Celtic Park on the last day of the season, with the title race still quite possibly in the balance, has clearly sent certain minds into overdrive.

Their thinking seems to go something like this: if Hearts come to Celtic Park needing a win, they’ll get one, even if it means Celtic roll over for them. That is how their tiny minds work. That is where their imaginations go. They are a strange bunch with very strange ideas in their heads.

Hearts fans have responded in equally deranged fashion, but they are framing more as anger at not being able to end the season with a game at home. What really made me laugh was the claim that it is some kind of immutable SPFL law that the side top of the table when the split fixtures are announced gets a home game on the final day. It has never been a rule. It just happens to have occurred often enough for them to mistake coincidence for regulation.

The fact is that we are the club with the three home matches. Why wouldn’t one of them be on the last day? I assumed one of them would be on the last day. I think most of us did. But that has not stopped their imaginations flaring up.

It has not stopped them looking at the fixture list and seeing conspiracy at work.

Really, it’s pitiful to watch how quickly both clubs fans have seized on it as proof that some great force is operating from the shadows, determined to do them down. But it is exactly what I knew would happen, and exactly what I said would happen in the two pieces I’ve written on this. The conspiracy theorists will be busy for years.

There was no universe in which this fixture list was ever going to satisfy everybody. It simply could not be done. But if I had to put money on who was going to be the most dissatisfied, no matter what the list threw up, I would have put it on the Ibrox club and their rabid supporters. They just cannot get past the idea that maybe, just maybe, the whole world does not revolve around them.

In this case, it certainly hasn’t.

The clamour in the media for Hearts to play at home on the final day against the Ibrox club was overwhelming, and I genuinely thought that might win the day.

But as I said on the podcast the other night, and as I’ve said in a few pieces before, Celtic may well have rendered that completely irrelevant anyway by putting ourselves in a position to win the title at home, regardless of what happened elsewhere. That still seems to me the likeliest scenario. Only now it’s a game against Hearts. Now it’s a game where we can knock off the side currently sitting on top.

And here’s my favourite bit. The broadcaster Ewan Cameron, one of the most gutless people in the media, who always backs down when properly challenged on the nutty stuff that comes out of his mouth, has already posted his anger at Hearts having to go to Celtic Park on the final day. They really did think the Ibrox club was going to get to travel to their ground, and the fact they wanted that fixture tells you everything about the calculations they were making before the list was published.

We have five very tough matches.

Plenty of Celtic fans still do not believe we will be able to win all five. Two away games, with Motherwell and Hibs, sandwiched between the home matches, is a brutal run. But there is no point complaining about it. This is what it was always going to be.

We were always going to get five difficult fixtures. We had a broad understanding of who they would be. The dates were the only unknown. In the end, that makes very little difference. We still have to win all five.

Their situation does not really change either. Yes, they play after us in the first two rounds, but what does that actually mean? If we blow it, they know what they have to do. They are talking about pressure, but there is no less pressure on Celtic than there is on them.

Still, listen to them squeal. The sound of it is music to my ears. No wonder we laugh at these people.