SIMPLY THE BEST- Celtic Ladies belt it out at Hampden

The Celtic Ladies team celebrated their Scottish Cup Final victory in what is fast becoming traditional style.

Back in the dressing room with the trophy there was one song that got special treatment from the cup winners.

Hopefully it drifted through the corridors at Hampden to where Leanne Crichton was consoling the losing bearettes.

SIMPLY THE BEST was the music of choice as the Celtic Ladies celebrated the end of their season with a trophy.

Four times they had lost to the Ibrox side during the season but as everyone knows sport is about winners and losers.

Winners collect trophies and medals. Losers get experience and sympathy. Losing manager Leanne Crichton has plenty of experience of that.

She has outlasted Russell Martin but three runners-up places this season isn’t acceptable among the Gullible & Deluded.

Celtic won the Scottish Cup thanks to a first half goal from Morgan Cross.

After finishing the SWPL season in a dismal fifth place the cup win is a reward for the hard work put in by those involved in the Celtic Ladies team.

CELTIC- WHERE THE WINNING MATTERS

If the club bothered they would invest in the Ladies team but like everything around Celtic the club does the absolute minimum.

At Hampden the players took their opportunity to win something meaningful.

The post match celebrations demonstrate how much it means to have won the trophy. The choice of song emphasises the rivalry involved.

Celtic fans claimed the Tina Turner classic after the hoops won their 119th trophy.

Singing it at Ibrox provides special meaning.

For decades Simply The Best was a badge of honour for Ibrox fans. Post 2012 it became a comfort blanket.

Now it is thrown back in their faces. An example of their desperation, their fragility, their exposure to reality.

By every measurement Celtic are The Best- the correct title of the Tina Turner classic.