THE PAIN OF 5-1
Lee Wallace has admitted that he hasn’t fully recovered from Mark Warburton’s side taking a 5-1 hammering from Celtic earlier in the season.
Waldo and Warbo stood shoulder to shoulder at the launch of #goingfor55 but the former city trader will be watching today’s match from his London home at Waldo goes out to do battle.
At the start of the season it all promised so much after 11 new signings were brought in to work with the squad that had romped to The Championship.
A win over Celtic on December 31 would have cut the gap to 16 points, defeat today will leave Waldo’s side 36 points behind the champions elect with regret high in the air over Ibrox.
Looking at his last visit to Celtic Park Waldo admitted: “That 5-1 defeat hurt. I remember in the press room it was hard to speak. Losing 5-1 in that manner, the emotions an hour or so after it weren’t great. It was one of the low points for guys who had experienced the fixture before.
““It wasn’t about any gap at that point. It was the fact we’d lost in that manner and everyone in the dressing room was hurting.
“We analyse things quite heavily here now but with experience I’ve got better in terms of handling moments like that. In my younger days or when I was just in the door here, any bad defeat would take a long time to get over. But the longer you let it fester the longer the doom and gloom.
“We had to do that after that embarrassing result at Parkhead. And if we lose this one it won’t get to me any more than how I feel about the gap that already exists.
“Whether it’s 33, 36 or 39 points, it has been unacceptable from us. We’ve been really disappointing and that feeling has been there for months.”