GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 16: Hearts Head Coach Derek McInnes during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Heart of Midlothian at Celtic Park, on May 16, 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Paul Devlin/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Hearts’ statement last night was one of the most pitiful things I’ve read from a Scottish football club in a long time.
That takes some doing, because the club across the city has turned unhinged and deranged communiques into an art form.
But even by those standards, this was something else. Hearts released a statement condemning what they called a hostile and threatening atmosphere at Celtic Park, as if they had accidentally wandered into a war zone instead of a football match where the league title was being decided in front of a packed home support.
I thought football was supposed to have hostile atmospheres.
I thought that was part of the point. I thought big matches, title deciders and emotionally charged fixtures were meant to feel like something. This was a game for all the marbles, not a sewing circle on a Sunday morning.
If the same game had been played at Tynecastle, with Hearts in front of their own crowd and Celtic trying to win the league there, I guarantee some of the same people now clutching their pearls would have called it passion, intensity and one of the great occasions in Scottish football. Because it happened at Celtic Park, suddenly it becomes something sinister.
Let’s just say the part out loud that a lot of people will not want to say out loud.
The idea that there was any real threat to the safety of Hearts players after Celtic scored the third goal yesterday is manifestly ridiculous. Fans came onto the pitch. That is a fact. It is not the first time that has happened in football and it will not be the last. Journalists, pundits and everyone else can fulminate and bang their feet off the ground as much as they want. It is a fact of football, especially when titles are won in the final moments of a season.
We live in an era of almost constant footage and surveillance. There are TV cameras. There are police cameras. There are supporters in the stands filming events all the time. Yet not a single clip has so far emerged which shows Hearts players being assaulted.
This is not the first time such a smear has been used against our supporters, and I suspect there will not be a single criminal charge in relation to any assault on a footballer from this event. Lawrence Shankland, on the other hand, might struggle to escape questions over his own role in what happened.
Let’s also remember something else here. We have had games at Celtic Park before which have been controversial. We have had games at Celtic Park where there has been serious disorder in the stands. We have had games at Celtic Park where Celtic coaches have been hit by objects. We have had games away from Celtic Park, especially at Ibrox, where the disorder has been even more extreme. As everyone is aware, there was a full-scale pitch invasion by their fans in response to some celebrating at our end.
So spare me the idea that yesterday was some uniquely disgraceful event.
Every single Celtic player stayed in the ground. They greeted our supporters at the end. They stayed to do press duties and everything else. They behaved like professionals in what can very easily be characterised as a highly charged atmosphere.
Hearts did not.
What I’m trying to say here is that Hearts’ departure from Celtic Park yesterday, under cover of all these stories, was about nothing but bitterness and frustration. It was the consequence of their manager being unable to handle defeat, especially when it comes at the hands of Celtic.
This is not the first time Derek McInnes has lost his mind over a loss against Celtic. But this was the most spectacular example, and it will forever be the most spectacular. McInnes is bitter and unhinged, and that team does not benefit from having such an emotional manager at the helm. That attitude infused their whole team yesterday.
Their performance reeked of breathtaking cynicism, with the time-wasting, the players rolling around and the attempts to cheat the referee and the officials. McInnes’ reaction to the penalty was nuts. His reaction to Celtic’s goal being allowed was even more deranged. Reports that he had a pop at the Celtic bench for over-celebrating are absolutely pathetic, but that is the kind of man he is.
I have never seen an opposition manager and his players in such a hurry to get away from a football ground. It had nothing to do with the behaviour of our fans. It had nothing to do with the behaviour of our players. It had nothing to do with the behaviour of our bench.
McInnes is a bad loser, which is interesting considering how often he loses.
He won Manager of the Year. I hope that trophy is of some comfort to him, knowing that he didn’t deserve it. Knowing that Martin O’Neill is the real Manager of the Year. Knowing that O’Neill has the silverware that he could not get.
Yesterday, McInnes decided that in his anger, frustration and bubbling malice towards us that he was not prepared to hang around to watch Celtic celebrate the title. His own bitterness would not allow him to do that. So his own players were deprived of the chance to take a bow in front of their fans, and their own supporters were denied the chance to thank them for the campaign.
The travelling support came to Celtic Park and gave their team all the backing they could.
They did not get to say a proper farewell except back at Tynecastle, at the non-victory party, the second-place party.
I’m guessing they’re not going to be needing that tour bus either.
It was one of the most scummy and cowardly things I have ever seen as a football fan.
When I heard yesterday that they had left the ground ten minutes after the full-time whistle, I was astonished. Then I thought about it, and I recognised that it was in keeping with who McInnes is and what McInnes does.
When you add him to the mix it did not become less astonishing but it became almost inevitable.
I did say that if Celtic won the title yesterday, it was going to break some people.
Well, we know who is number one on the list.
In the fullness of time, I hope Hearts are thoroughly embarrassed by their own reaction to this. As a club, they gave a lot to this season. They took it to the last day. They were leading until six minutes to go. They should have handled defeat with good grace.
Instead, they allowed their manager to take small and petty actions which do not cast them in a good light. Then they delivered a statement which was incredible, even by the standards we usually use to judge such things, which are the ones that come out of Ibrox.
The statement talked about an intimidating and threatening atmosphere between two teams contesting the league title, with one of them playing in front of its home crowd. What exactly did they expect? A polite round of applause? A respectful hush? A calm and measured debate over cucumber sandwiches?
This was as high pressure a game as some of us have ever seen. At Celtic Park. With Celtic scoring late goals to win the league.
Of course it was intense. Of course it was hostile. Of course the atmosphere was ferocious. That is what football is supposed to be. The idea that this somehow embarrasses Scottish football is absurd.
What embarrasses Scottish football is not fans celebrating a title win.
What embarrasses Scottish football is teams being so unable to handle major reversals that they resort to smears against fellow clubs and the game itself in order to excuse their own failures on the pitch.
It has been embarrassing for Scottish football these last few weeks.
But what has embarrassed Scottish football is not any action committed by fans. It is pundits and media personalities calling the game corrupt. It is clubs issuing wildly inaccurate, self-justifying statements reeking of bitterness and anguish at not winning.
It is people painting our game as some sort of lawless banana republic because their preferred outcome did not materialise.
Those kinds of comments and those kinds of statements are what have embarrassed Scottish football. Hearts added to that yesterday for the second time in a week.
I’ll get to McInnes more specifically later on in the day, because I’m not finished talking about him by any stretch of the imagination.
But I’ll say this for now: Hearts allowed his bitterness, his malice and his spite to colour the way they responded to this all the way down the line.
It was obvious that Hearts arrived at Celtic Park yesterday carrying a sense of grievance over Wednesday which was wholly out of proportion to what actually took place. That sense of grievance exploded outward yesterday in the behaviour we saw from McInnes and his team at the end, and then in the statement that followed.
Hearts showed themselves up yesterday as a small provincial club with a provincial mindset. Forever the victims. Forever the put-upon. They arrived at Celtic Park already half-believing they would “not be allowed to win”. If that is the kind of culture you want to infuse into your football team, great. You can look forward to never winning anything.
Had Hearts been able to come to Celtic Park with a professional mindset, instead of allowing their manager to push his own toxic mentality onto the rest of the team, they might have had a better chance of withstanding the pressure at the end.
But they thought like losers. They acted like losers. In the final moments, they departed like losers and behaved like particularly bad ones, and they can obfuscate, blame, deflect and lie as much as they want. That was one of the most breathtaking acts of unprofessionalism I’ve ever witnessed from a club.
As long as they operate with that mentality, this is all they’re ever going to be.
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I just watched an excerpt from a video of the after match scenes quite clearly showing Lawrence Shankland attacking a Celtic fan, the guy looked as if he was taunting him and he deserved a good skelp, but FFS, let’s not exaggerate and lie about it after the event to suit your own agenda.
Was the Hearts greetin faced manager attacked at hostile Celtic Park, or does that just happen to Celtic managers in the friendly atmosphere of Tynecastle?
losing the last goal when the hearts keeper was in our box looking to equalise was when Del boy got the trotters and scarpered out of parkhead with his tail between his legs, his wee gnarled purple face ranting about not being able to complain about maedas penalty as an excuse to claim an injustice.
I genually hope this has scarred him for life, couldn’t happen to a better tosser than him
GIRFUY Mckinness your pain is delicious.
I don’t buy the excuse of a menacing atmosphere being the reason why Hearts failed to fulfill their media duties. These were to be performed from the safety of inside the main stand. I’m not convinced leaving in their kit wasn’t always the plan – would have been odd to do an open bus parade in tee shirts and jeans.
But none of that excuses the behaviour of the neds who went onto the pitch – there is zero excuse for this and all of them should be given lifetime bans. All they have done is give the media something negative to focus on when the focus should be on the fantastic job MON has done.
And as I posted elsewhere, let’s not forget that without VAR, Maeda’s goal wouldn’t have stood – another comical linesman flag that I hope Willie Collin took note of.
We cannot let the ibrox club run VAR out of town.
While I agree there was no evidence of players getting attacked we cannot condone fans running on to the pitch in such numbers even if they were just being vocally hostile and ferocious as you say. Fans on the pitch is a big issue and they got soundly booed by the majority who had the sense to stay in the stands. The final whistle according to O’Neil wasn’t even blown, so technically the game wasn’t even finished. One time this might have ramifications for us. If this had happened in a european game there would be a full stadium closure and maybe a ban from the competition so let’s get rid of this childish habit before it’s too late.
But it didnt happen did it. Cretin. Hun . Get tae fuck. A day like that and u find a fault. Once a hun…..
Youre a real nasty piece of work pal.
Can you explain why you spend so much time on a Huns forum licking their arse?
‘The final whistle according to O’Neil wasn’t even blown, so technically the game wasn’t even finished’
What a load of made up bullshit.
No wonder people on here take you for a total fanny.
Every single one of the culprits who invaded the park, and can be identified, should have their season tickets taken off them and be banned for life. Zero tolerance.
Mind you I did do it once myself and enjoyed it at the time. However that was in a different era, in 1967 when the Lisbon Lions returned to Celtic Park and paraded the Big Cup around the ground, and as a 15 year old that was a real whizz. Besides, I only did what the adults had done in Lisbon. 🙂
Those were the days my friend.
Oh, and I managed to get a clod of the hallowed turf to plant in my back garden.
Johnny if you want to ban for life people who did what you have done without sanction isn’t that hypocritical?
This happens all the time at cup finals and at end of league games where many thousands come on the park. But you want to ban a few thousand Celtic fans?
And for life??
Isn’t that a tad harsh on your own folk ?
Different times completely, it was almost acceptable in those days, have you never watched the 67 European Final and our fans reaction after the final whistle. I wasn’t even at a game when I ran onto the park.
And no I am not being harsh, for a lot of things are unacceptable these days that were previously tolerated…..and I think you know that?
I think you’ve let the wailing and howling of the hurt Sevco Smsm to get to you comrade.
Which is easy to get caught up in their collective anguish and outrage as it’s everywhere you look.
You totally underestimate me if you think I give a rats arse about anything that mob say, never have and never will.
Johnny you walked right into that one, I don’t care whether it’s different times or not, as a guy in his eighties I hate all this criticism of the younger generation for getting over excited, when a goal to rubber stamp winning the League Title is scored in the 98th minute, and was anticipated for fully 10 seconds as Osmand ran towards the unguarded goal.
Ffs I wish some of our fans wouldn’t be taken in by the Scottish and English Media, and other football fans in Scotland, who’s hatred and disrespect for everything Celtic is the worst its been in years. The Jealosy of, and bitterness towards our club is shameful.
I think the success we’ve had domestically against the new club since 2012 has driven the Ibrox lovers to the brink of insanity.
The so called “Neutrals” who disliked us just for being who we are, hate us even more now, for snatching the League Title from their beloved Hearts. Only the Hibs support are grateful.
As James said this morning GIRFUY, ya shower of effin bigoted barstewards.
McInnes is a bitter horrible bigot. Who cannot hide his hatred of catholics and Celtic
People might be forgetting the pitch invasion was whilst the game was still live and going on. It could be argued that the game was then abandoned.
The idiots who invaded the pitch should be punished accordingly. Shocking
( give them the same reprimand as Sevco have promised for the violent Onion Bears. —- If they are caught, charged and convicted and sentenced and then caught again for the same offence and then convicted again then they should receive a real harsh talking to and the club should write them a very strong worded letter!!
It was disgusting james.
Fences were taken down following Hillsborough and that was the right thing to do in stadiums with terracing which could become overcrowded. I’m increasingly minded to think we should reinstate them where the overcrowding risk is much reduced in all-seater stadiums. Fences or Perspex panels with quick release mechanisms should be considered as there will always be a ned element who want to invade the pitch.
After Hillsborough when the fences came down there wasn’t a lot of pitch invasions. It has become more common recently mostly in the lower leagues in England and often there is unsavoury incidents. We really need to get out of this habit and it should not be normalised on these pages.
Also the trongate debacle is bad publicity for us and we get compared to the Ibrox entities George Sq. “celebrations”.
Riot police and dismantling bus shelters should not be required for a celebration party. The cop on the TV says celtic and the police must work to prevent the scenes shown on TV. As we are likely to win the league for the foreseeable future this has to be a priority. Its only one day a year but the people of the trongate have life’s to live and the celebrations should not be outside people’s homes.
It is real bad publicity and today Ive watched the mainstream media putting us in the same bracket as Ibrox and Millwall today.
Need to snap out of it ffs.
Anybody else still got that warm beautiful glow of happiness still flowing through them…
Watching Hearts v Glasgow City Women which is 0-0 with 20 to go…
Actually wanting Hearts to win this as it denies Sevco any chance of a league our ladies are embarrassingly out of…
Anyway – We absolutely won the big yin !
So the football writers ‘manager of the year’ ends the season empty handed.
Absolutely delighted.
He’s a serial failure.
Now Martin on the other hand ?
Hostile atmosphere? It was pretty quiet compared to last week against the huns, too many glory hunters who didn’t sing or join in. McInnes couldn’t handle it and his mind games fried his own head leaving a bitter and twisted man who couldn’t see his job for the fog he created himself. That whole club are the disgrace and have been for years, their fans were worse than the hubs. The only reason their reputation did not precede them was they aren’t as far travelled as the Huns so have not had the same chance to make national headlines. As for the arseholes on the pitch, I can excuse kids over excitement but there were fathers with kids on there shoulders taking selfies and guys older than me, and I’m a pensioner. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Cheer up Derek Mick Guiness, oh what can it mean……? 😀
Let’s do a quick experiment and compare how 10,000 Jam Farts behaved in 1986 when with 4 minutes plus injury time left on the clock Albert Kidd made it 2-0 to Dundee as Celtic strolled 5-0 at Love Street to yesterday. Well with time enough left for the balloons in maroon to snatch a draw if they really went for it thousands of Hearts fans threw in the towel and invaded the pitch at Dens. They also threw bottles and other projectiles into the Dundee section of the ground from the pitch, fought with the police on the turf before finally being persuaded to return to their tear-soaked terrace behind their keeper. They wasted vital minutes doing that instead of what we did with minutes on the clock yesterday and used our voices at the top of our lungs to will the ball into the net twice to once again crown ourselves champions of Scotland.
And when the final whistle went at Dens Park it was running battles yet again and holding the team hostage in the dressing room baying for blood until an apologetic Wallace Mercer made an appeal to them to go home and get ready for next week’s Scottish Cup Final against Aberdeen, then they could celebrate some silverware at least. Drying their Niagra Falls eyes they were persuaded and moped off dejected back to Shytecastle. Needless to say the dandy Dons who were rampant along with Dundee Utd for a few years at the time – just not as good as we were that season but close – thrashed Mercer’s Heart-less team 3-0 in the final a week later at Hampden and it would take 40 years for them to play tribute act to that far superior team of ’86 whose only defeat was in that final match that Albert Kidd won almost single-handedly for Dundee and his true love the mighty Celts.
There was no outrage. You can catch the Sportscene highlights of that match on YouTube with Archie McPherson, eyes welling up, saying at the end of the match there were grown men crying in the Hearts end and he felt a bit tearful himself. Rangers did finish 5th and trophyless that season so like this season the bitter orange Jam Sharts were all the hope they had of any solace at the end of it all. And if that hope didn’t kill them back then, then yesterday’s glorious finale to the match has surely killed their hope they’ll ever have hope in their Hearts again! 😀
To Hell with the full fats and diets and their entourage of anyone-but-Celtic kling-ons. Let’s see if the Celtic under Martin O’Neill, may God preserve him, blows it at Hampden like Mercer’s mercenaries did in ’86. And if we cry rivers that run free if we do. Get the living legend’s statue unveiled before the start of next season no matter what!
# Come on over to our place.
Hey huns we’re having a party!
We’ll keep singing, happily winning.
Rohl and McInnes are shyte # 😀
Hail Hail!
Women’s football ended out 0-0…
A Celtic Women Draw v Sevco Bitchetts today ends it for The Huns and makes The Jambo Women Champions…
C’mon Celtic Ghirls – Put The Sevco ones over the final edge…
I’m loving this – Hearts praying for a Celtic Win v Sevco today and Sevco praying for a Celtic victory in The Scottish Cup Final…
WE AIN’T HALF TROLLING THEIR FUCKIN MINDS !!!
Is this the same club whose stadium is so friendly and inviting that one of their fans physically attacked Neil Lennon on the tiuchline during a match?
Asking for a friend.
Please don’t downplay the seriousness of the pitch invasion James! It was a disaster waiting to happen and although I’m pretty sure that no actual incidents of assault will show up, the possibility of an abandoned match was very real. The club will be under pressure to take action in days to come.
None of this excuses the ridiculous Hearts FC statement. Whatever they experienced on the pitch, once they were in the tunnel it was over. Once they were in the dressing room they couldn’t have been subjected to any “intimidation “.
This was purely and simply McInnes going back to his Celtic hating, Billy Boys singing self. I’m sure many of those Hearts players will have been shocked at his ordering them to get on the bus immediately. I wonder how much input Tony Bloom had to that statement? I wouldn’t be surprised if McInnes has managed his last Hearts match.
98% of fans celebrated together in bars and at home. Singing songs and comparing other title wins. Sadly we have 2% of bams who think it’s ok to jump on pitches. 4 times it’s happened this year. Club needs to get rid of this poisonous bunch.
Should England get stripped of their already tainted 1966 World Cup Jules Rimet trophy? “Some people are on the pitch! They think it’s all over! It is now!”
Make them replay it? Partition Germany and rebuild the Berlin Wall so they have a West German team to play? They were celebrating on the pitch with the match obviously still ongoing.
The Celtic fans came on when the time was up – not while the ball was in play with a team going for goal – and the game was beyond Edinburgh’s currant buns. The 8 mins added meant the goal was always going to be the last kick of the ball and if Hearts had scored from their last ditch free kick I wouldn’t want anything to happen to jubilant fans or their team, so long as their mini “invasion” was in good spirits and no Ibrox-style venom aimed at our fans or players. There was nothing poisonous about the ending yesterday except the fit thrown by the sash wearing scumbag in the away dugout who should have been sent to the stands with a red card in the first half.
Maybe if the stewards and police weren’t so crowded in front of the impeccably behaved North Curve stand fans and more evenly spread around the stadium you’d not have had your pint ruined by the sight of happy Celtic fans who were praised by every single player and the manager without exception in post-match interviews!
Your clearly one of the 2%.
What 2% are you on about? If you mean the North Curve then I sure was but 2% of the fans? Sounded a bit louder than that but I’m sure you were able to judge better watching SKY Sports on the big screen at your local. Stop pulling numbers out your arse like you’re Professor Kris Boyd and state facts based on reality, eejit! 🙂
I always thought there was something inevitable about this win. I think in my last post I said as such describing MON as a “lucky general”.
However I may be wrong but I can see a sea change at the top of Scottish football. They could have easily stopped Celtic in the last few games and there is no way they would have got the breaks they did even a few years ago. The one aberration was the obvious hand ball penalty goal Hibs got but apart from that there seems to be a lessening of the cheating,
A couple of years ago Maeda would have been deemed to have fouled the keeper for the second goal but to focus on offside meant they couldn’t have denied it. The Last minute penalty against Motherwell could easily have been denied and we would have to have sucked it up and to allow it knowing the importance was astonishing.
To paraphrase Jock Stein , ” we have to score enough goals to negate any cheating by the officials.” Now we are sneaking by by the odd goal.
hand ball goal
Maybe they got the wake-up call they badly needed when no Scottish officials were selected for the World Cup this year? It’s a real embarrassment for them especially with the Scotland team taking part, as much as I wish they would boycott it.
Jock Stein always preached that a Celtic fan should be equally gracious in victory or defeat.
He’ll be turning in his grave at this “reeking of small-club stuff unsporting and reeking of bitterness.” that James alludes to.
I can’t remember that but I remember Rangers manager Willie Waddle proudly declaring that the club meant so much to the supporters that when they lose they go home and beat their wives.
100% James, McInnes is a bitter bigoted b*****d who deserves nothing from the game because his a average lower level manager as for him and the rest of his losers making a quick exit…make no mistake that was sour bitterness…..hun tears and it’s glorious
The game was never in danger of being abandoned so please stop with the histrionics, as we get enough of that from the Smsm. Fans running on to celebrate at the end of a massive victory isn’t ideal but it’s been a part of the game forever.
Did anyone scream and wail when Ipswich Town fans invaded the pitch to celebrate their promotion?
No.
Nothing.
Not a sausage.
In fact the very opposite.
The scenes were shown as a good event.
But not when its the Fenians in Scotland oooh no !
Then it’s a police matter, a riot, a threat to national security !
Some of our own fans getting caught up in the Sevco supporting Smsm’s bs is understandable but they should know better and be able to see through their bs, the same bs we have lived with all our lives.
Ps. If there were any assaults on the field then they should be dealt with as no one should be getting assaulted at a football match.
I remember the Sevconians celebrating their first non-defeat to us in a draw at Celtic Park. I think Murty was their interim manager but could be wrong. It was around his time in charge though, and there was some spillage of fans in blue tops onto the gravel track just outside the turf area the wee ones got so excited. Everyone around me was just amused at the sight of them overjoyed they’d avoided a traditional demolition derby for once! 😀
McInnes is a bitter wee man he lost the league title on Wednesday when he blew a fuse Kevin Keegan style from yesteryear,when Fergie got inside Keegan’s head as the gap closed on Newcastle who had been storming away with the title,until Fergie got inside his head,that’s what happened on Wednesday night,that winning penalty got inside McInnes nut and never left him,you could say it lived rent free,and still does,probably forever.
That Penalty as late on as it was on Wednesday broke him and his squad.
Instead of coming out for that interview after the game midweek and using words like DISGUSTING regarding the award of our penalty,he should have had he been a bit cooler and more experienced at being a winner,which he is not,but all he had to say was look we got our 3 points tonight,job done let’s move on to the game at the weekend.
He could even have a rocky bastard and said,I’m not interested the Celtic score tonight Hearts is my team only they count,nobody else.
But he didn’t,he took the bait and bit,like a vampire listing for blood.
Great article James I’m sick and tired off all the shite I have listened to since yesterday best team won on the day and for all that utter bullshite about players fearing for there safety don’t make me laugh was sick off seeing Tony bloom as if he is some sort off genius hearts will never win a title in my lifetime end off and I’m 46 god bless you Martin just get sum off the board members out tae fuck
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In 1972 Willie Waddell also said after their European Cup Winners Cup win:-
Willie Waddell, didn’t mince his words when he said of his club’s fans…
“It is to these tikes, hooligans, louts and drunkards that I pinpoint my message – it is because of your gutter-rat behaviour that we are being publicly tarred and feathered.’
That was partly because they had to be awarded the cup in the toilets and partly because of the backlash to the “wife beating” comment. He tried to distance himself from the worst elements.
I think we can all agree on what McIness is and take nothing but pleasure in watching him and his wee hun fanbase meltdown. The statement from their club is what you would expect from a club like that and for those of us who have followed for 50 odd years, we remember how vile a club and support they have. 70s and 80s was when they were at their worst. Having said that we need to address the issues within our own support who are giving the media and them an excuse to try and destroy our success. There is no need to go on a pitch regardless if its over exuberance or not. As for the Trongate, that is something that between GCC, Police Scotland and Celtic need to come up with a plan for. FFS Glasgow Green is only around the corner from there. Get something organised between them. But Celtic cannot be blamed for what happens in the City Centre. I’ve walked through this on the way back to town after winning leagues and it is not pleasant. To be fair, most of the people there haven’t been at the game so I have no idea how Celtic can be getting the blame for this.
Let’s be honest here,we won the game fair and square.The league is won over the whole season,not on a single match or decision.
Whatever way Celtic won the title the idiots and bigots would find something to moan about.
As for DM he is a very poor man manager which should with his utterly disgusting behavior before,during and after the match.
He should take a long hard look at his behavior and take a lesson from MON.
Well done Celtic ,although it’s been a difficult watch this season.
Champions are Champions and we are the real CHAMPIONS of Scotland.
The absolute nerve of Hearts to suggest that yesterday’s match atmosphere was ‘menacing and threatening’. Tynecastle has been a bear pit for decades. We all remember our then manager Neil Lennon being attacked and punched by a Hearts fan who came from the stand during the match and carried out the assault. We can also recall Scott Sinclair scoring an injury time winner at the back post at Tynecastle on his debut, then when running behind the goal to celebrate, Hearts fans were swinging punches in his direction.