Two of the remaining football reporters at The Scotsman are predicting that Celtic won’t finish the season as SPFL champions.
Of 19 bookmakers listed by Oddschecker all of them have Celtic at odds on with their Ibrox rivals at odds against.
At 7.30am on the day before the season kicks off the best odds that you can find on Ange Postecoglou’s squad is a skinny 4/6 while Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side are available at 13/10.
There isn’t much to split the two Glasgow clubs but that is mainly down to the complete lack of credibility in the other 10 clubs who haven’t mustered a league win since 1985. Any romantics out there can have Hearts at 80/1 or Hibs at 150/1.
Celtic go into the new season on a 32 match unbeaten run in the SPFL. In the 18 matches since the turn of the year they won 15 and drew 3 with no reason to suspect that sort of form is about to collapse.
Giving the pre-season predictions of their football experts, The Scotsman reports:
David Oliver: Premiership: Rangers -Two dynamic attacking teams, but Gers’ home advantage in the post-split Old Firm could have massive sway going into the final days.
Matthew Elder: Premiership: Rangers -With their vast strength in depth,it’s hard to see either of the Old Firm dropping points against anyone bar each other. That will make the derbies all-important and with seven new arrivals Gio’s squad now looks better equipped to handle them than last season.
In three SPFL derby matches after last summer’s transfer window closed Celtic took seven points out of nine. Turning a six point deficit in January into a four point advantage in May is no mean achievement in such a lop-sided contest.
Every opinion is valid on the day before the new season starts but Elder and Oliver have very little to back up their claims other than the fall of the fixtures.
Thats because they support the biggest cheats in Scottish football rfc deadco now newco the ranjurs 2012 thats biased scumbags for you..
They know nothing about our new signings as the panic sets in.
the ‘hootsmon’ loves the union and anything that supports it. An embarrassment having the word ‘Scotsman’ in its title. As Scottish as cricket.
Some hacks get there jobs by favour not by deserving it and they want to keep theres scotman i wouldnt wrap my friday night fish supper up in what they thinking of not the facts celtic started the season with a two thirds new players look at the team we have start of this season we lost first team been sold thatbwas the big mistake on ten in row should have got rid of them no 13th man lost to a team that empty stadium suited now we have a team angu picked jept the ones who wanted to play for celtic fc 1888 and brought in good addutions to those thar didnt lennon was right to tell supporters sime players downed tools but celtic fc 1888 win league wuth ease now new co have shop outside poundland in there history 10years we know uts truevand in your heart you know it the only reason any hack dosent pick celtic fc 1888 is lazy journalism meaning not looking at facts but there future job charlitons
Who gives a flyin fuck what these hun retards think. HH
Two nickel&dime FUDS pretending to be journalists. A couple of GLUE SNIFFERS of the highest quality.
By definition, an opinion can never be wrong. However, are we even the slightest bit surprised that the SMSM are so deeply drenched in hate and blind to the obvious. Let them hang on to their hopes & dreams, as it sweetens the tears we’ll all be supping on come May.
Here’s another opinion.
This comments section needs to be sorted as the comments disappear before you get a chance to read them on your mobile. I know there’s 6 comments before mine, as I seen them, but never got a chance to read them as they disappeared before I got a chance to look at them.
Like I said, an opinion can never be wrong, but it is only my opinion.
Keep up the good work Joe. I always enjoy your posts. I would like to read the comments from my fellow Bhoys though.
HAIL HAIL
KEEP THE FAITH??
By definition, an opinion can never be wrong. However, are we even the slightest bit surprised that the SMSM are so deeply drenched in hate and blind to the obvious. Let them hang on to their hopes & dreams, as it sweetens the tears we’ll all be supping on come May.
Here’s another opinion.
This comments section needs to be sorted as the comments disappear before you get a chance to read them on your mobile. I know there’s 6 comments before mine, as I seen them, but never got a chance to read them as they disappeared before I got a chance to look at them.
Like I said, an opinion can never be wrong, but it is only my opinion.
Keep up the good work Joe. I always enjoy your posts. I would like to read the comments from my fellow Bhoys though.
HAIL HAIL
KEEP THE FAITH??
Cmon Joe, stop promoting their bais and tainted narrative. Seriously who. gives a f**k and I don’t need to know what they think. Please Celtic media just deal with Celtic stories.
Editor: I’m highlighting not promoting. Lots on interest in this story, good to see the emerging next generation of cheerleaders and future BBC Scotland presenters- Scotsman introduced Succulent Tom English to the state broadcaster.
Plenty of free options to create your own Celtic news feeds.
These so called journalists and pundits up here are as thick as the English people totally conned and took with in the tories policies the pundits up here think they can get away with the same thing with their LIES.
Unionist anal wipe with a majority of Yoon reporters favouring a Unionist club
So according to these geniuses it is a bigger advantage to have the 1st Glasgow derby at home than to have the final one (with only a few games remaining) at home.
HH
We all know what’s going on here. These guys are lying through their teeth to hold on to their jobs.
All in vain I fear when The Hootsmon goes tits up like The Record and the other succulent organs.
Ooo err missus!
They will have time to recalculate after saturdays result.
I bought the Herald the other day. I used to buy it daily and take it to work as it was an interesting read. But it has an agenda now, same as the rest of them. There’s no free-thinking, just the same old tired, directed proddy-hun viewpoints. It is tainted, there’s no debate any more, just reinforcement of the same old Government message. “Everything is Fine, Your Living in a Utopia, You Could Not Wish for it to Be Any Better”. Honestly.
The maister says, I used to buy the Herald & Record back in the day when they were actually decent quality papers. Around about 2011 their tone changed, after 2012 they went full on Hun with their reporting of Sevco’s ‘ friendship making Journey through the Leagues’ and their downplaying of Celtic’s exploits in League and Cups.
Around about 2013 / 14 I realised I was still buying them out of habit and not reading them. It dawned on me that I was addicted to the Herald’s back page Crossword and the Record’s fun page with crossword, Sudoku and Word target. Stopped buying it and never looked back. Why pay the barstewards to insult me.
The Celtic blogs have proved their worth over time and current affairs can be searched on the interwebby thing free.
Sod them all. Their dwindling circulation is heavily subsidised by the owners. It must hurt them big time. Not long till the Press in Scotland crashes and burns.