‘We Are The People’? Celtic Are Taking Every Ibrox Bragging Right — And Now Another One Is About To Turn Green

There was a time when Ibrox came with its own soundtrack of superiority.

“We Are The People.” Simply the Best. “Going for 55.” The most successful club. The most league titles.

You didn’t merely support the Ibrox club. Apparently, everyone else was supposed to accept that they occupied some special position above Scottish football.

There is just one increasingly awkward problem.

Celtic keep taking the things that supposedly proved it.

Now another precious Ibrox comfort blanket could be about to turn green: the Celtic UEFA coefficient ranking is poised to move above their Glasgow rivals.

You really couldn’t write it any better.

Celtic UEFA coefficient ranking is the latest Ibrox problem

Remember “Going for 55”?

Of course you do. They made enough noise about it.

Fifty-five was treated less like a league-title total and more like the meaning of life itself.

Then Celtic caught them, overtook them and kept moving.

That old “most successful” swagger has also taken a battering as Celtic continued collecting silverware.

Simply the Best? Celtic supporters have gleefully adopted a song once synonymous with Ibrox.

“We Are The People”?

Well, that’s becoming an increasingly difficult sales pitch when the neighbours keep collecting the records you once used to demonstrate your supposed superiority.

The trophies. The records. The bragging rights. Even the song.

At some point, “We Are The People” requires a follow-up question.

The people of what, exactly?

Celtic UEFA coefficient ranking could deliver another blow

According to The Scottish Sun, Celtic currently have 38.000 points in UEFA’s five-year club coefficient.

The Ibrox club remain narrowly ahead on 40.250.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Should Martin O’Neill’s side complete the job against LASK and reach the Champions League league phase, Celtic will receive at least six coefficient bonus points.

That would take Celtic above their Glasgow rivals for the first time since the end of 2020/21.

Here comes the punchline.

Those six bonus points are reportedly the same number the Ibrox club would receive for WINNING the Conference League.

Yes, really.

They could win an entire European competition and collect the same six-point bonus Celtic receive for reaching the Champions League league phase.

Perhaps nobody at UEFA received the “We Are The People” memo.

Celtic haven’t just caught them — they’re getting stronger

That’s what really makes this sting.

Celtic aren’t desperately scrambling towards some distant Ibrox benchmark anymore.

They’re passing them.

The league-title record they held so dear? Overtaken.

The superiority complex built around those domestic records? Looking increasingly ridiculous.

Their famous soundtrack? Celtic supporters are singing Simply the Best.

The European coefficient advantage? Potentially next.

For years, those numbers were presented as evidence of who supposedly ruled Scottish football.

Fair enough.

Celtic will happily use exactly the same measuring stick.

Funny how records suddenly become less important when they’re no longer yours.

“We Are The People”?

Keep the slogan.

Celtic will keep taking the records.

Key Takeaways

• Celtic could overtake the Ibrox club in UEFA’s five-year coefficient rankings.
• Champions League qualification would earn Celtic at least six coefficient bonus points.
• Celtic have already overtaken major domestic landmarks once central to Ibrox bragging rights.
• Six Champions League bonus points reportedly equal the bonus for winning the Conference League.
• Another cherished Ibrox advantage could now be about to disappear.