Highlights of Celtic’s win over Hibs had been watched by more than three times the number of viewers that had watched the other five SPFL matches combined at 10am this morning.
Sky Sports offered live coverage of the match from Easter Road but hoops fans just couldn’t get enough of the action as they clicked away through the night on the official SPFL You Tube channel.
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Highlights from last night’s fixtures were shown on a 75 minute edition of Sportscene.
Over the same timespan there had been 627,000 views of Manchester City’s win away to Leeds on the Sky Sports You Tube Channel, if Celtic picked up 25% of the broadcast revenue of Pep Guardiola’s side draw in Ange Postecoglou would have a very significant transfer fund for next month.
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