Hugh Keevins Says Rangers Will Win the League at a Canter – Celtic Fans Should Be Delighted He’s Done It Again
Hugh Keevins has declared Rangers' title success “nailed on” after two derby wins – but Celtic still have plenty of time to answer that prediction.
Phillip Cooney 
There might just be some good news for Celtic supporters after a miserable few weeks.
Hugh Keevins has predicted Rangers will win the Premiership “in a canter”.
Thanks, Hugh.
Because if ever Celtic supporters needed reminding that football is not decided by newspaper columns in September, Keevins himself has provided plenty of reason not to treat sweeping predictions as certainty.
Keevins has gone all-in
Keevins actually acknowledges in his column that his conclusion could be described as a “knee-jerk reaction”.
Then he proceeds to make it anyway.
After Rangers defeated Celtic twice in eight days, he has decided Derek McInnes winning the championship is “nailed on”.
Nobody should pretend Celtic are playing well. They aren’t.
The 3-0 League Cup defeat at Ibrox was dreadful and the 1-0 Premiership defeat at Celtic Park was another deeply worrying performance.
Rangers deserved those victories.
But two derby victories do not decide a 38-game league championship.
September has suddenly become May
That is where this column becomes remarkable.
A dreadful Celtic fortnight has been extrapolated across an entire season.
Rangers are ahead of Celtic. Celtic have serious problems. The squad looks disjointed and Martin O’Neill’s position has created uncertainty that cannot be allowed to drift indefinitely.
All of that can be true.
It still doesn’t make a Rangers title “nailed on”.
Football simply doesn’t work like that.
Form changes. Injured players return. January transfer windows happen. Managers come and go. Teams expected to win drop points in matches nobody expected them to lose.
Rangers themselves have already demonstrated that this season.
Yet Keevins has looked at the situation in September and effectively declared the competition over.
Celtic must fix their own mess
None of this should become an excuse for Celtic’s hierarchy.
The club has created many of its own problems.
There needs to be clarity over O’Neill, greater coherence on the football side and serious planning rather than Celtic stumbling from one temporary solution to another.
But Celtic being badly run at present and Rangers being guaranteed champions are two completely different arguments.
Keevins has jumped from one to the other.
And that is why I’m actually delighted he has made this prediction.
He’s planted the flag.
Rangers will win it “in a canter”. McInnes winning the title is “nailed on”.
Fine.
Keep the column somewhere safe.
Because football has an amusing habit of making definitive September predictions look very different when May arrives.
And if Celtic needed any additional motivation to sort themselves out and respond, Hugh Keevins has just supplied it.
Key Takeaways
- Hugh Keevins has predicted Rangers will win the Premiership “in a canter”.
- He describes Derek McInnes winning the championship as “nailed on”.
- Celtic’s recent performances deserve serious criticism, but the season is far from finished.
- Two derby defeats do not decide a 38-game championship.
- Celtic must now sort out their own problems and make Keevins’ prediction one worth revisiting at the end of the season.
Oh thank you so much Hugh
We have only lost 1 game in the league,we’re do you get the 2 from
Ffs the other week he was spinning them getting knocked out the conference league as a positive
He’ll do anything to please his hun paymasters and keep himself in a job
On the last couple of week`s evidence and Celtic`s reaction, or lack of it, to it. surely nobody can claim that Celtic will win it.
It`s OK state that Celtic are still two points in front but they would have been eight in front if they had managed a win and still five with a draw.
For a Celtic manager to be going on a break with his wife to “consider” his
position after getting a managerial lesson from a well-known managerial
loser is not only a disgrace but frightening to the extreme.
Now Keevins gets hammered for stating the obvious. Who the hell else is
he expected to pick as league winners?
“Rangers” didn’t defeat Celtic twice in a week Phillip – They cannot as they are dead…
And for The Clydebank Coffin Dodger sayin they’ll win it in a canter – Once again they cannot as they’re dead…
Both yourself Phillip and The Coffin Dodger need to stop misleading your readerships with fu**in dangerous LIES !