MOTHERWELL, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 27: Celtic's Alistair Johnston celebrates as he scores to make it 2-0 during a William Hill Premiership match between Motherwell and Celtic at Fir Park, on October 27, 2024, in Motherwell, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Alistair Johnston has dismissed the media hype and excitement over Celtic getting a Guard of Honour at Ibrox.
It is a topic that appears every couple of years around the Glasgow Derby despite never having happened.
No-one really cares about it, fans are much more interested in taking full points from the fixture regardless of its status as a dead rubber.
Celtic have held a double digit lead in the SPFL Premiership since the turn of the year with one point required in the opening post-split fixture at Tannadice required to give them title number 55.
Adding more honours is the target for Scotland’s most successful club with Johnston almost shrugging his shoulders when the Guard of Honour issue was raised by the Daily Record:
Would I expect it? I wouldn’t say I’d expect it.
Look, at the end of the day it is what it is. We are not too bothered if someone gives us a guard of honour or not. We just want to be lifting a trophy on the final day of the season and that’s our biggest focus.
Whatever happens in between that is up to the other teams. It’s out of our control.
Sunday’s Scottish Cup semi-final against St Johnstone is much more of an issue than any Guard of Honour to Johnston who could finish the season with eight out of nine honours from two and a half seasons as a Celtic player.
The hunger for success seems to grow with every trophy success at Celtic with Johnston demonstrating that on the pitch and with his comments in the media.
Team from Ibrox “ honour “ sorry does not compute. Look at their players’ scummy behaviour at Celtic Park and Aberdeen. Their manager and media refusing to condemn it.They don’t know the meaning of the word.
I will gladly settle for knowing they are hurting really bad as they see us walk out as champions again.
Unless the takeover is all they think it is going to be then they had best get used to seeing us walk out as champions for many years to come.
Seems the guard of honour senario v sevco 2012 arose when we won the 8 in the Lenny era and had been applied up until then by celtic and ragers 1872.
Sevco under Slippy G decided it wasn’t for them
So in 2021 when dignity 2012 were due to receive one from us we declined .
IMO There’s more chance of Beaton reffing a celtic game without his bias getting the better of him than there is wee (I’m stauncher than you lot put together) Bazza showing any kind of sportsmanship towards us
This reminds me of the old joke ” Enough about me. What do you think about me?”
Celtic might win the trophy but for the media the important thing is what Sevco will think about it.
A gaurd of honour from a club of utter DIShonour…
No fuckin thanks – And NEVER do one for them –
Though I hope to goodness we never have to ever contemplate it !