Celtic pull 13 points clear as the clowns take over the Ibrox clown car once again

For a split second there last Thursday, it looked like the clowns had been unceremoniously ejected from the Ibrox clown car.

It looked like sane people, who had some kind of clue of what they were doing, had taken the wheel.

But as with everything Ibrox, the madness is never very far away.

Keeping it away seems to be their biggest issue.

Yesterday, it looks like the clowns suddenly took the wheel again.

I don’t want to gloat and say I told you so, but I did predict they would once again drop points on the road.

However, I didn’t expect it to happen in such calamitous fashion as it did.

I suppose to a degree, yesterday’s result makes Thursday, and our lamentable performance, all the more baffling.

How the Ibrox side managed to take a two goal lead, and then conspired to throw it all away, is as amusing as it is frustrating.

Frustrating from a Celtic perspective, to think that very same team lorded it over us last Thursday.

And amusing, because it’s oh so predictable.

For a few days there, Clement had us all fooled that he might actually be cobbling together a decent side.

Well, I tell a lie, he didn’t have me fooled.

In fact, I don’t think he had anyone of a Celtic persuasion was really fooled.

We all knew the bubble would burst, it always does.

However, that doesn’t take away from the fact we were atrocious last Thursday.

If anything, it just puts it into sharper contrast.

It appears our anger at such a poor result at Ibrox has irked our manager somewhat as well.

That is, if his post match conference after yesterday’s game against St. Mirren is anything to go by.

He believes the fans are being a tad too demanding.

That they need to learn to trust the team, the manager, and the process.

Well, I suppose when a certain standard has been evident for most of the season, it comes as a bit of a shock when it disappears completely.

Like it did at Ibrox last Thursday.

Brendan pretty much indicated yesterday that he should not be criticised.

And to a degree, I understand that.

Because we’ve only had two losses all season.

However, it is the way those losses happened that is getting to people.

Brendan Rodgers was the architect of his own downfall at Ibrox.

I make no bones about saying that.

His team selection was wrong, Reo Hatate and Liam Scales should not have been anywhere near the field of play for that second half.

Every man and his dog knew that.

But Brendan Rodgers felt he knew better.

And let’s be honest, most of the time he does.

That’s why he is the Celtic manager, and we’re just Celtic fans.

That said, he STILL got it wrong last Thursday.

And he should take that on the chin.

It appears, though, that he isn’t inclined to, and to a degree, he probably shouldn’t have to.

But that’s what comes with the territory of setting such high standards.

When those standards disappear, people react negatively.

Especially when it’s against your arch rivals.

I’ll put it this way, if we had won at Ibrox, and lost yesterday to St. Mirren, there’s no way we’d have been as pissed off as we were after Thursday’s result.

Yes, we’d have been pissed, but we’d have gotten over that result much quicker.

Which brings me back around to yesterday’s results.

The Ibrox side dropped a further two points.

We extended the gap again, to 13 points.

Did it sweeten things a bit in the aftermath of last Thursday’s result?

Of course it did.

But many of us, including me, as we watched the second half of the game at Easter Road, were left scratching our heads as to how the hell that side did what they did to us at Ibrox?

Put it this way, if they didn’t have Hamza Igamane, they’d actually have been roundly beaten in that game.

I firmly believe that.

As usual, the Belgian Waffler pointed to the penalty as the turning point, and of course, how it wasn’t a penalty.

There is always, and will always be an excuse whenever they lose or draw.

Clement cannot accept that he was schooled by a rookie in David Gray yesterday.

So instead, it’s everyone else’s fault but his.

I’d imagine they’ve all labeled Beaton as a turncoat at this stage!

Look, I never like to lose to the Ibrox side, especially in the way we did last week.

But I accept now that it was an off day.

They happen, and thankfully at Celtic, they don’t happen that often.

It seems as if Brendan Rodgers, although he would never state it, did learn from it too.

The fact that Liam Scales and Reo Hatate did not start yesterday’s game, would indicate that he did.

There’s no doubting Auston Trusty Justified his selection, that’s for sure.

And yes, for me, yesterday’s results did soften the blow somewhat.

I’m chuffed we’re 13 points ahead of them again.

I’m even more chuffed that the clowns are back behind the wheel of the Ibrox clown car.

It never does take long for them to regain control, does it?

Nor does it take Celtic long to get back in control either.

And that’s where were right now.

13 points ahead, and in total control.

Normal service is resumed.