The Noose Tightens for Scotland's Shame

We have all endured a rollercoaster ride of emotions as our team seemed to contrive to throw the league away in a spate of results that I for one had thought sealed our fate. There have been many recriminations and fallouts between ardent and fanatical Celtic fans about how we should deal with this as a club. These arguments will continue.

Yesterday, a door of hope was opened at Easter Rd, all of us hoped that this would be a game where Rangers would drop the points we need them to shed for us to snatch back the title from the jaws of defeat. To be honest, I could not watch it, instead I channel hopped, taking in how Hannibal gave the Romans a tanking via a couple of hundred Nellies and after that how a very corrupt Pope decided to re establish his power base by thinking up the notion of a Crusade in the late 11^th Century to recapture the Jerusalem. So, educationally at least not a wasted afternoon.

Each time I turned it back to check the score, my heart would miss a beat, I am being serious here, it did. Each time as my eyes focused upon the 0-0 scoreline I would sigh but quickly tell myself that they would soon score and not to be an idiot to believe.

Well the game went on an on, Hannibal defeated the Roman Empire, Jerusalem was recaptured at great cost and Hibs held out. You could almost touch the pain of Rob McLean and Terry Butcher through the screen, you felt it, you let it surround you, you loved it and you laughed at it. They tried to down play the significance, they tried manfully to remind us that it was still in their beloved Gers hands, they tried but they failed. We knew, they knew, even Craig Burley knew. A blow had been struck, a wound had been opened and hope returned to our hearts.

It is a fact that they are still in the driving seat, it is true that if they win all their games, if they don't lose, if they can stem tiredness, if they can start scoring, if, if, if. Here is an if for you, what if Motherwell win at Ibrox, what if Dundee Utd win on Saturday? That will mean that on Sunday we play for the title? again there are a few if's for us but I can sense a shift, a rift. If it is to be an idiot to believe, to think that we can do it, that all of our disasters, all of the points we have given them can be returned and we can win three in a row is to be an idiot. Then all I have to say is, where do I sign? For I believe that it now can be done, the last two wins against them were vital, but I can sense it, it is possible and with a little more luck it shall be done. Hail Hail