A simple message for the rest of Scottish football, the BBC, the SMSM, and their Celtic conspiracy theories – DO BETTER!

If I was to take my green tinted specs off, and look at Scottish football from a neutral perspective, or even through the prism of a supporter of another Scottish side, I would draw one conclusion.

Celtic owns Scottish football, and Celtic runs Scottish football.

I would say this because it’s easier to say this than to actually forensically analyse the problems in Scottish football.

It’s easy to blame big bad Celtic for all the woes of Scottish football.

We’re a big fat target that’s hard to miss.

And for the rest of Scottish football fans, we’re easy to dislike.

So yes, I understand why people take aim at us.

I can also understand why people are sick of our domination of Scottish football.

Even at our very worst in decades, we still ended up dominating this season by securing an unlikely double.

For some, understandably, that has been hard to take.

So hard, that Celtic is being accused of cheating its way to the title, with the help of the Scottish refereeing fraternity.

As a Celtic supporter for over 40 years, and having lived through what I’ve lived through in those four plus decades, I find it extremely hard to take when Celtic is accused of cheating.

I bristle at the very suggestion that the title we just won should have an asterisk next to it.

When the fans of a club that cheated on an industrial scale for over a decade procrastinate to us, and tell us that an asterisk should be placed beside our title win, well, that just reeks of hypocrisy.

In the 1990’s, when Rangers 1872 dominated Scottish football, I never remember anyone saying that their domination was bad for the game in Scotland.

Of course, nobody knew back then than David Murray’s buddy in Bank of Scotland, Gavin Masterton, was the real reason behind their domination.

Everybody just assumed Murray was pumping his own money into the club.

This relationship between Murray and Masterton was a key factor in influencing the bank’s lending decisions.

Masterton dug deep to back Murray, and willingly increased his business empire’s overdraft facility.

This further suggested an unusually accommodating approach to his borrowing requirements.

Even then, their domination was financed by money that was never theirs in the first place.

I could go down the Ibrox rabbit hole, but that’s not what I want to talk about today.

I’d rather talk about the state of Scottish football as of now, rather than 30 years ago, which most people of an Ibrox persuasion seem to be fixated on.

Many accusations of cheating have been levelled at Celtic this season.

From fans of other clubs.

From the media.

Most notably from BBC Sport Scotland.

Accusations like having the referees in our pockets, to owning the SFA to the extent that they set up the post split fixture list to favour us, and to put Hearts and the Ibrox side at a disadvantage.

People seemed to struggle with the concept of having to play 19 games away, and 19 games at home.

Celtic were getting 3 home fixtures simply because they had 3 remaining home fixtures.

We had played Hearts away twice, and the Ibrox side away twice already.

The post split fixtures were not set up to favour us.

Hearts had their shots at us at home, they won one, and drew one.

If they’d won the one they drew at home, which they should have when Celtic were reduced to ten men, they’d be Champions of Scotland now.

It’s as simple as that.

So when they cried about the fact the last game, which in the end was a title decider, had to be played at Celtic Park, they did that because they knew they might be in a very tough position when they came to play us.

And so it transpired.

Tell me how this our fault?

Or that we somehow cheated?

Oh yes, we also have to remember the single penalty that decided the entire title race.

In one fell swoop.

The other 37 fixtures played up to that point had nothing to do with it.

The very idea that we have Scottish referees in our pocket is highly amusing to me.

Because the only thing that has Scottish referees in its pocket right now, is VAR.

John Beaton hates Celtic, he always has.

His colleague in the VAR room the night that penalty was awarded at Fir Park comes from a family that detests Celtic.

In fact, his father detested Celtic and people of the Catholic faith so much, it cost him his job.

So, if we have these people in our pocket?

What exactly did we do to convert them to our way of thinking?

Did we somehow manage to time warp the Spanish inquisition into the present day and subject them to a forced conversion to the Catholic faith??

Because that’s about as believable as the theory we have them in our pocket.

VAR has them in its pocket, it’s that simple.

In the days before VAR came to the Scottish game, they could cheat with impunity.

They could do this because their decisions could not be scrutinised, and it was always an “honest mistake”.

Now everything has to be examined.

There is no avoiding it.

We know that if there was no VAR this season, the title race would have been over long before that title winning game at Celtic Park.

Douglas “Red card” Ross would have flagged Daizen Maeda’s legitimate goal at Easter Road as offside, and we would have dropped points there.

There would have been no re-check.

That’s just one incident that would have impacted.

There are many more I could list, but I don’t have all day.

For Ibrox fans, VAR has been the scourge of their club.

This is the only reason they want it scrapped.

Because it doesn’t benefit them.

But it does benefit Celtic, and that makes Celtic cheats.

For years, Celtic fans have highlighted legitimate cheating in the Scottish game.

We have been laughed at, and called conspiracy theorists.

Now, all of a sudden, Celtic is at the heart of all conspiracies in Scottish football??

We have a board that could not pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

But we’re expected to believe that they somehow manage to own the SFA, Scottish referees, and run the Scottish game??

Maybe the reason they’re so chronically bad at running our football club is because they’re investing all of their energies into this endeavour?

Who knows?

But seriously, these guys don’t have the ability to get the signing of player over the line without a fax from Dermot Desmond.

Does anybody believe that the meddling golfer is some sort of mastermind from the golf course in Barbados, pulling all the levers of Scottish football?

Seriously??

I have a message for the rest of Scottish football.

Instead of pissing and moaning about Celtic and what Celtic do, DO BETTER!

Get your shit together.

I know you’re all hurting because the worst Celtic side since the early 1990’s still managed to do the double.

But instead of blaming all the woes of Scottish football on Celtic, maybe look in the mirror?

Maybe question why you just aren’t good enough to take the title away from Celtic?

Aim your ire at the people who run your club.

And if you want to have an open debate about reforming Scottish refereeing, we’re all on for that too.

We have nothing to hide.

Nothing.

We are the most successful club in Scotland because we’re better than the rest.

It’s really that simple.

So just do better, be better, and maybe then you’ll beat us.

Until then, you can just suck it up.

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