The media is desperate for their “Tainted Title” headline, let’s give it to them Celtic, right between the eyes!!
The media and the rest of Scottish football wants to ensure we get no credit if we win the title at Celtic Park tomorrow.
Eric Knott 
MOTHERWELL, SCOTLAND - MAY 13: A general view of the Celtic fans tifo display during a William Hill Premiership match between Motherwell and Celtic at Fir Park, on May 13, 2026, in Motherwell, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Yesterday, to put it mildly, was a day of mass hysteria in the Scottish football world in the aftermath of Celtic’s late, late penalty at Fir Park on Wednesday night.
In the mainstream media, amongst fan media outlets, and all across social media, there has been a total meltdown.
Hysteria, hypocrisy, and irony.
Probably the three most suitable words that I could use to describe everything I saw and read yesterday.
The entire world of Scottish football has finally woken from its slumber.
The realisation has hit that the game is rigged in Fair Caledonia.
However, here cometh the irony, it is rigged to benefit only one side.
Celtic.
Over Ibrox way, they are howling conspiracy.
They are bleating to the world that they told us all along the game in Scotland was rigged.
But nobody believed them.
Wednesday night finally tore the mask off, and the cheating and match fixing in Scottish football was laid bare in all of its sinister, gory glory.
The Ibrox side are now going to be the pioneers in leading the way when it comes to eradicating cheating in our game.
The campaign has begun in earnest to out Celtic for the cheats they are.
Michael Nicholson is the Luciano Moggi of Scottish football, and he has had every Scottish referee in his pocket for years.
Silent, but deadly Mike.
I know you’re reading this and you’re probably close to hysterics – in keeping with the mass hysteria – while taking it all in.
But I shit you not, this is what the world of Scottish football woke up to yesterday morning.
Yesterday, on social media, there was a document doing the rounds from John Beaton’s school yearbook, whereby he declared his undying love for Celtic.
The hilarious aspect to this is that it was an AI reproduction of the another document which appeared on social media a while back where he declared his undying love for the Ibrox side.
The liklihood is that neither document was real, but you know?
When the narrative requires a certain suitability, the lengths people will go to are endless.
And make no mistake, everybody outside the world of Celtic is on a mission to prove that our club is rotten to the core, corrupt, and has cheated its way to every title and cup won in the 21st century.
As for me?
I’m loving every second of it.
I’m reveling in it.
The pain, the anguish and the misery we have wrought on everybody by scoring that penalty on Wednesday night has, indeed, been a sight to behold.
Now, the Ibrox club is leading the way in the campaign against cheating and corruption in Scottish football.
Suddenly a paragon of virtue, and a beacon of light in the Scottish game.
Give me a f*****g break.
Genuinely, this club and the people involved in it have no self awareness whatsoever.
Their club exists solely because of the fact its predecessor cheated its way into into the grave.
The Ibrox club went 74 games consecutively without conceding a penalty, the 5th longest record in world football.
The same club was awarded 4 penalties in one game by the referee who called John Beaton to the monitor in Wednesday night’s game.
That referee’s father was sacked from his position as Head of Referee Development for circulating sectarian emails in relation to the Pope’s 2010 visit to Scotland.
John Beaton once had his own dedicated supporters club at Ibrox.
Now the watching world is supposed to believe that Andrew Dallas and John Beaton are corrupt and closet Celtic fans?
And that they are on Celtic’s payroll?
How stupid do these peepul really think we are?
The level of hypocrisy here is off the scale.
The dumb lack of self-awareness from every one of them, and their naive attempt to airbrush the corruption and cheating both of their clubs have been involved in is breathtaking in its audacity.
The old 80’s song “Star Trekking” comes to mind.
The lyrics “only going forward, cos we can’t find reverse”, describes these fruitcakes to a tee.
They never look back.
They never accept what they were, and what that now makes them.
Instead, they pretend that they have been trying to highlight the corruption in the Scottish game to the wider footballing world.
Now, all of a sudden, since Wednesday night, everybody wants to sit up and take note of the fact that the Scottish game is corrupt??
When Celtic fan media has been highlighting it for years now?
We have shone a light on corruption in the Scottish game for years.
Corruption that clearly benefitted only one side.
It has been entirely ignored.
But now all of a sudden because Celtic gets a decision in their favour which has a huge impact on the title race, the whole of Scottish football is awake and crying corruption and cheating?
Corruption that apparently has only benefitted Celtic?
Where the f**k were they all before now?!
On top of that, everybody is shouting it from the rooftops that if we win this title it will be “tainted”.
Tainted???
Are they for real??
If we were to take this personally, we’d think this was some kind of sick joke.
But to be honest, I actually do not care.
In this world, you reap what you sow.
For years now, the rest of Scottish football has chosen to ignore what we’ve been highlighting.
It’s a bit f*****g rich jumping on the bandwagon now just because the Jamestown analytics fairytale looks like it might come crashing down, isn’t it?
Let them call our title “tainted” if we win it tomorrow.
Let them make it a headline in every national title.
Do you think a single one of us will give a proverbial flying f**k?
Not on your life.
They thought we were dead and buried.
But now we’re back, and ready for the fight.
Let’s give it to them Celtic!
Right between the eyes and knock them for six.
Tomorrow legends are made.
And nobody, I mean nobody, will take that from us.
We have earned every trophy we’ve won in Scottish football.
Fair and square.
Against the most bitter of odds at times.
But this one?
If we win this, it will be one of the sweetest of all time.
And no amount of use of the word tainted will change that!
Annihilate them tomorrow Celtic.
One last fight for the Green again.
Show them what being called cheats results in.
Leave everything out there.
Until they’re reeling.
Key Takeaways
- Scottish football experienced mass hysteria after Celtic’s controversial penalty decision, leading to claims of corruption.
- Critics now accuse Celtic of being favoured by match officials, igniting a campaign against perceived cheating.
- The article mocks the hypocrisy of opposition fans now crying foul after years of ignoring systemic issues.
- Despite accusations, the author asserts Celtic’s legitimacy in winning titles fairly, relishing the current controversy.
- Anticipation builds for Celtic’s next match, with a strong belief in their right to fight against their critics.
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Aodhán Ó Conchobhair 
The negativity has already started in the haemorr..sorry…tabloids just in time to cause mass disruption pre tomorrow’s game ! They have Daizen Maeda desperate to play in englandland. Hatate is Joe the Toff . Celtic FC will cause complete carnage at the Trongate tomorrow if Celtic beat Hearts ….like previously ! And still not a peep from any scoop when McInnes was found singing The Billy Boys in his theRangers days …all in front of young kids . The daily Record even had a piece on the World’s Media being totally sickened at the penalty decision on Wednesday night ! Clickbait bollox as usual from the doughnuts and coffee brigade at that rag ! As I’ve said previously it’s watching them suffer and endure the disappointment and disaster when Celtic triumph that is the best part . At least we know the exact meaning of the ‘all in it together ‘ slogan ?
I had to laugh at an old bigot being interviewed on the streets last night explaining how a ball
that strikes someone on the hand will fall to the ground. Talk about sheep, or gaslighting even.
Suddenly, everyone is an expert on the flight of a ball after it is either been headed or touched by a thumbnail.
So what about a goalkeeper using his hands to block a ball? How many times do you see it actually dropping dead at his feet? And then there are `keepers who punch the ball, through
a ruck of players even, and it lands almost in the centre circle?
As for Gary Vinegar and his like: surely that will put an end now to the continuous footage every
time the opportunity arises of Maradona and his “hand of God” goal. How could anyone score
a goal from 20 yards out by simply using his hand?
Hi Eric ,I get your revelling in it ,but in South West Ireland it’s not a lived experience for you,no offence.Here in Scotland ,especially in the central belt,the hysteria has been off the scale.Even the mainstream media completely lost their shit.Im in my 60s now and it’s the worst display of petulance,hysteria ,lies,and hate I’ve known.
Just because the medias preferred team blew it and are finishing 3rd they have went on a campaign to distract from the fact their team is shite.
Celtic have risen to every challenge thrown at us, mainly by our own inept board, one more push and let’s win this title to stick it right up the lot of them.
HH