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Forget Sunday by helicopter. The league title was officially won by the Rangers two weeks ago.
This is Track and Trace Sunday at Celtic Park.
A team is on track for the national season they have wanted for 10 years. The other sinks without a trace.
And you wouldn’t need additional sensory powers of perception to determine which is which.
The price of calamity is collapse and the Rangers fell under the weight of their own dire ineffectiveness against Slavia Prague on Thursday night.
The last 16 in Europe seem to be its glass ceiling.
But one man’s glass ceiling is another man’s roof collapsing, and Celtic have had nothing to talk about in Europe over the years that they have been cannon fodder for a variety of sides from different positions on the continent. .
Today is about the possibility that Celtic and their fans will have to readjust their ideas about the internal structure of the club, the way the team plays football and the attitude of the fans towards building a better future.
The much-talked about RB Salzburg coach Jesse Marsch, linked to the job of succeeding Neil Lennon, talks about projects and construction without being obsessed with results to begin with.
Celtic supporters would have to shed the need to flood the parking lot and confront the police after losing a Betfred Cup tie to Ross County in that case.
The world of football is advancing and Celtic is lagging behind.
How far back could be evaluated by the course of the game this afternoon.
The club and its fans may have to accept that the best way to catch up is to copy the structural model possessed by their biggest rivals.
There may have been some Celtic supporters who would not have been very unhappy if the Prime Minister had followed through on the threat to cancel today’s derby for fear of public disorder.
It would have avoided the risk of a transfer from a team that starts the game with a 20-point advantage over them.
When the battle-hardened veterans of a thus far undefeated league season face players who seem like the equivalent of conscientious objectors, you may be excused for thinking there can only be one winner.
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Every time a challenge has been shown to Celtic on a national level this season, they have shown an unwillingness to rise to the occasion. Today is about the team and the fans improving their game. Tribalism is fine, but perspective is better.
It is very fitting that Glasgow is hosting the climate change conference for world leaders later this year.
The environment, as applied to both Celtic and Rangers, has not changed for over 130 years.
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish icon of environmental wellness, has never experienced anything like this before.
And there is not yet a vaccine available that is capable of stopping the transmission of the toxic intolerance that exists between both clubs.
But it can’t be the height of ambition for Celtic fans to simply draw today.
That would mean his team’s unbeatable run in the league with Brendan Rodgers will be better than the Rangers’ unbeatable run under Steven Gerrard, by just one point. There has to be more to life to come than avoiding a total cover-up at the hands of your rivals and joyfully taking that as something that was rescued from a shipwreck.
I know there is fine print in the unwritten contract between the Old Firm that says there is no win too big or too small that fans can’t celebrate in a totally disproportionate way.
But what would all that do for someone in the grand scheme of things?
Celtic supporters have been relatively quiet so far on the question of who should be the club’s next manager.
Today’s result has the potential to trigger a significant change in attitude before dark tonight.
The absent landlord, principal shareholder Dermot Desmond, would have to condescend to speak to tenants who pay their debts early in the event of a watershed moment.
When I first knocked on the club’s door for professional purposes in 1970, I was answered by Jim Kennedy, a former player from the 1960s who determined who was eligible to join.
If you beat Jim, you met Irene MacDonald, who ran the daily affairs of the club in a polite and efficient manner.
Then you have to talk to Jock Stein. And that was it.
Three people, a historic European Cup won two and a half years earlier. It was almost miraculous.
But now we are in a futuristic world based on PowerPoint data by comparison. And Celtic needs to get a message.
The only piece of technology we don’t need today is the dumb meter.
Sadly, Celtic Park has been turned into a militarized area in anticipation of unrest.
But if something happens today, we really have a desperate case on our hands when it comes to public order.
The government is watching.
The television company that highlights Scottish football is also watching.
They could turn a five-year, £ 125 million deal into fish and chips paper if we have problems followed by the
consequences of misconduct.
No one could be that stupid, right?
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