This weekend could make or break Celtic’s title bid, but you get the feeling something special is in the offing…

As of this moment in time for Celtic, our destiny in this title race is in entirely in our own hands.

Win our last four games, and we should be champions.

But let’s not be under any illusions, the next four games are going to be extremely tough.

They are going to be hard fought, tense, pulsating battles.

Every one of them.

The first one of those remaining four games is at 12pm on Sunday at Easter Road.

The task is pretty simple.

We need to win, and win well.

The reality is that we’re up against a side that has actually only lost one more fixture than us this season.

On their patch.

So this isn’t going to be easy.

A lot of people are saying that Hibernian will not want their rivals to win the League, and that they could even lie down to Celtic.

But I think that goes more for their fans than for their players.

Who are, after all, professionals.

I’m sure the Ibrox fans will be pushing that conspiracy, but I won’t be falling for it.

Many people seem to forget that David Gray spent his first four years in the game at Hearts before moving to Manchester United.

David Gray was a boyhood HEARTS fan and he'll be desperate to see them try to win the league so that's why all this talk of Hibs "lying down" is nonsense.
Celtic have to worry about themselves and if we want to win the league we need to focus and not get complacent https://t.co/TPeHmaq3eK

— Tommybhoy79🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽ (@ruchillbhoy79) April 30, 2026

Obviously, he may have been a boyhood Hearts fan, but his loyalties clearly lie with Hibs now.

And for Hibs, finishing fourth is the target.

Gray says that Hibernian is his only focus, and as a professional, he means that.

Personally, I believe that both sides will be well up for this one.

But ultimately, it all boils down to who wants it more.

The reality here is that there’s more at stake for Celtic than there is for Hibs.

Fourth is their aim, first is ours.

But Hibs player, Joe Newell, has also made it clear what this means to his side.

Nobody is going to be lying down in a bid to prevent Hearts from winning the League.

The media are full on pushing this narrative. It's gonna get worse. https://t.co/2cHUJ7l2dL

— Boristhehead (@BigPatsy01) April 30, 2026

Martin O’Neill isn’t buying it either.

Here’s what he had to say earlier today:

[Hibs are a] Really difficult task for us. They beat us at Celtic Park as well. Really big game for us.

I can understand it [theories about Hibs]. There may be some Hibs fans that don’t want Hearts to win the league, but that won’t cross over to their team selection or through to the coaching staff and players.

In fact, I think they would be more invigorated by news of that – so if I could call on Hibs fans to refrain from saying that, that would help.

I’m not sure whether Hibs fans will listen to Martin O’Neill or not.

But I get where he’s coming from on this.

I also understand how much Hibs fans do not want their arch rivals to win the League.

They consider their rivalry with Hearts as strong as our rivalry with the Ibrox side.

Hearts aren’t known as the “Diet huns” due to their cuddly, fun nature.

They’re called that because they are smaller scale reflection of the Ibrox club, so its easy to comprehend why Hibs wouldn’t want them to win the League.

For them, it would be similar to how we felt when the Ibrox side were in the Europa League final in 2022.

We knew if they won it, we’d never hear the end of it.

Considering no team has won the League in Scotland outside of Celtic or the two Ibrox entities since 1985, Hearts winning the League would drive Hibs fans demented.

They know they would never hear the end of it.

It would be rammed down their throats forever more.

So I’m sure they’re praying we stop them from doing it.

As a result, all of those worries are there for the upcoming weekend for both the Celtic and the Hibs fans.

We know if we slip up at Easter Road, it opens the door for both the Ibrox side and Hearts.

Not only that, but Hearts will know if we slip up and they defeat the Ibrox side on Monday night, it’s really their title to lose.

There’s no doubt all of this gets the pulses racing.

But I don’t know why I have this creeping feeling at the moment, this feeling that Celtic will do what Celtic always do when it counts.

This feeling that they will step up to the plate and blow the opposition away.

I have this image of Martin O’Neill standing in the dressing room giving the players a spine tingling pre-match speech.

Where he himself feels like he’s been transported back to 2001, and those days where he was considered the best man motivator in the game.

He’ll talk of the hurt of 2003 and 2005.

And when he does, when he tells the players he doesn’t want to experience it again, they’ll react.

They’ll feel this surge of energy.

That same spiritual surge of energy that showed green chutes last weekend against Falkirk.

They will feel what he wants them to feel.

That feeling that this title is theirs for the taking.

And because many of them have been over the course before when it comes to this, they will get into sync.

They will synchronise because something special is in the offing.

And those players who haven’t been here before, like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Benjamin Nygren, they will understand it.

They’ll understand what it means.

They will get what it means to be Celtic.

Winning is in our DNA.

That’s what it means to be Celtic.

And that’s why we’re going to win this.

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