John Hartson went out on a limb earlier in the season when he dismissed the Celtic in Crisis story that got the gullible excited.
The Welshman spent five years in a Celtic shirt when they were battling against the odds imposed by the tax scams going on at Ibrox that were known about by the SFA and SPL.
With a level playing field in terms of payments to players Celtic have been Scotland’s dominant force for seven years with that trend highlighted under Brendan Rodgers.
However defeats at Hearts and Kilmarnock alongside a Champions League defeat from AEK Athens posed questions of the double treble winners.
Hearts and Hibs plus the latest Ibrox Revolution were all bigged up but as the clocks changed back to winter time the football forecast has a more familiar look about it.
Celtic could be breathing down Hearts’ neck by tea-time on Saturday with Aberdeen standing in the way of the first trophy of the season.
Hartson listened and read the proclamations of doom and gloom, how Brendan Rodgers was about to quit for Aston Villa, Leicester, Newcastle and China.
Reflecting on the panic in the Evening Times:
It also helps that Brendan Rodgers is not being linked with every single manager’s job on the face of the planet.
That talk has settled down, thankfully, and I’ve stopped reading and listening to absolute nonsense about Celtic being in a crisis – they never were – and the manager was never on the verge of leaving
There were supporters getting a bit panicky. I do sort of get why. It’s not as if Brendan and the board were getting on especially well. We all know he didn’t get some of his summer targets – John McGinn being one – but I always felt that once they go over that difficult period they would be fine.
Now, every club has a wobbly stage of the season. The difference at Celtic is they are not really allowed to and any tiny problem is multiplied ten-fold.
The manager knows what to do. He has the best players in the country. Everything was always going to be okay.
