Dunfermline Athletic finished fourth in the Championship this season. That was enough for a place in the Premiership playoff competition. They beat Arbroath 1-0 on aggregate, before losing 3-2 to Partick Thistle, the second leg of which was a week ago today. The Fifers were ahead in that game, but conceded a Keystone Cops-type equaliser, which turned the tide against them. Recent form has not been encouraging, they have won only three of their last 10 games, including a penalty kick decider in the Scottish Cup semifinal.
That win over Falkirk demonstrated what they will bring to tomorrow’s final against Celtic. Unlike that aberration against Partick, they were scrupulously organised on their last visit to Hampden, denying Falkirk a clear sight of goal for most of the afternoon.
While Celtic were defending their way to a 0-0 penalty kick win over Newco in the quarterfinals, Dunfermline went to town on Aberdeen, deservedly beating the holders 3-0.
You and I have memories of how a Neil Lennon side lines-up when facing a comparative giant. Neil’s best results in Europe as a Celtic manager came against stronger opposition. He knows how to set a side out to frustrate and will try to inspire Dunfermline to a result that would be the equal of anything he has achieved in his career to date.
Neil also managed to eliminate Hibs, another of his former clubs, in the 4th round. Weeks later, Hibs won at Celtic Park. That was the round Dundee led at Celtic Park until the 97th minute, before succumbing to the Magic of Very, Very, Late Goals from Celtic this season.
One source of concern for Celtic is the side they faced in the semis. St Mirren finished 11th in the Premiership this season, which means they are also a playoff club this term. Despite losing their first and second choice goalkeeper, and playing the majority of the game with a 17-year-old debutant between the sticks, they took the champions to extra time. Need we mention what they did to Celtic in the League Cup Final in December?
It is without controversy to say that Celtic have reached the Final without having played well in any game. Auchinleck Talbot, Dundee, Newco and St Mirren all frustrated, before folding.
After a run of success in cup finals which will surely never be matched, Celtic’s Hampden Invincibility Aura was shattered by two weaker teams in 2025. They were under different managers and with a different mentality in the squad. Our 43rd Scottish Cup win and 22nd League and Scottish Cup double, is surely on the cards.
I’ll leave the antics of Hearts, which were exposed by yesterday’s SFA statement, until next week. All eyes on the Cup.
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When the Celts go up to lift the Scottish Cup. . .
Friday!
One more sleep until the double.
HH!
Keane resigns from Ferencevaros…..joining the dots….not for me,from all reports,boring football…..and he’s a horrible guy
Get it right roon ye McInnes.
Cmon Celtic one last push.
the Bada Bing on 22nd May 2026 12:07 pm
None of that matters to the Irish Raj….he ticks the most important box for him…
Good afternoon all from the Tolbooth. This celebrating the Celtic is an onerous task but one must strive to persevere. Next stop the Shipbank!
TBB – Like you. I think it is the most likely appt and would confirm what we all know. DD picks the manager and he doesn’t give a flying #*@” what the fans think.
He will know this appt will be opposed by the GB and the current fragile truce is likely to disintegrate.
A guess that Broonie assistant manager, as Maloney going to be Director of Football
🎶 Oh Hampden in the Sun ☀️ 🇮🇪 🍀 🎶
Fly the Flag 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Celtic Glasgow 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Hope am wrong but I cant see it bn Robbie Keane.
HH
I’d rather keep MON on for 1 more year than appoint Robbie Keane.
Buts it’s happenin…..isn’t it?
Surely not Keane
Robbie keane & broonie double act would surely ruffle a fair few feathers. I sm not offended by boring football if it makes stronger on the big stage. Getting ferencvaros to the knockout stages of european football for the first time in 50 years in quite an achievement. I can think of many worse appointments over the years
Typical parochial thinking that DD is known for if Robbie Keane is appointed.
Very narrow minded & tone deaf to the customer base.
Bhoy From The Boyne on 22nd May 2026 12:22 pm
I’d rather keep MON on for 1 more year than appoint Robbie Keane.
Snap
Robbie Keane, never. Stepped over dead Palestinians to collect his 30 pieces of silver.
Scott Brown should be nowhere near a management job at Celtic, Ayr were terrible to watch football akin to livi or St mirren let him learn the job somewhere else Keane I have no idea about, if its Irish only we are in trouble.
dessybhoy- I’m just guessing, and hopefully wrong, Broonie and Jonny Hayes met Keane in Budapest a couple of weeks ago…..
If Rabbi Keane, MoN and Bellamy is the extent of our search then it’s clear nothing has changed and it’s a matter of when, not if, Sevco and Hearts catch us.
Madra Rua on 22nd May 2026 12:42 pm
Robbie Keane, never. Stepped over dead Palestinians to collect his 30 pieces of silver.
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What about the Celtic team dressed in genocide supporting Adidas kit?
Hmmmm?!
MON saying goodbye to his Italian Comrades?!
https://celtsarehere.com/celtic-fc-martin-oneill-message/
Not seen any of Keanes teams playing but the optics are not good and bound to cause unrest just for the DD / cronyism feel without even taking the Israel perspective into consideration.
After taking months for MON (and results) to get the fans (in CP at least) and the team going in one direction this could set us back, even in MON stays as DoF above him.
If true it might ruin the double joy quicker than Ange and Wims departures.
Surely with a decent budget, re-build and 1 tie to CL to sell us to prospective managers we can do better, even playing in the SPFL.
More chance of Harry Stiles getting the Celtic support and board going in the One Direction.
Accurate assessment of Neil’s managerial sweet spot, Paul.
Let’s go out and win it.
In other news 2+2=5.
Zzzz
Bhoy From The Boyne @ 12:37 pm
Typical parochial thinking that DD is known for if Robbie Keane is appointed.
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DD brought in Martin twice and Brendan twice when others were being considered.
Don’t know DD.
Never met him, likely never will.
At a guess though?
He might be forgiven for thinking his “evaluate the man” approach has yielded some success.
Agree though, we need a broad search for a real leader
Paul 67,
If i may digress prior to the cup final.
We have had a whole week of being attacked.
Let’s respond remembering why we support Celtic and the greats that we remember.
We are a magical club with a home called Paradise.
I thought I would share this social media post with the blog :-
When Tommy Burns was coming towards the end of his life, Scott Brown’s family were going through their own heartbreak.
Tommy was battling skin cancer.
Brown’s sister Fiona was also dying of cancer.
She was only 23.
At Celtic, everyone knew how ill Tommy was.
Gordon Strachan went to see him at 4pm one day, and by 3am the next morning, Tommy had sadly passed away.
A few hours later, the Celtic players were brought together.
Strachan spoke to them.
Then Scott Brown came over to him.
“Can I speak to you?”
Strachan knew what Brown’s family were going through, so he asked him what was wrong.
Brown asked him when Tommy had died.
“About three in the morning.”
“Why?”
That was when Brown told him what had happened.
“Well, my sister got flowers at 10 this morning.”
They had arrived after Tommy had died.
And the note was from him.
“Good luck, keep your chin up.”
From Tommy Burns.
Tommy was hours from the end of his own life, and he was still thinking about Scott Brown’s sister.
Still sending flowers.
Still trying to lift someone else.
That was why Celtic people loved him the way they did.
Not just because he played for the club.
Not just because he managed it.
Because even at the very end, he was still Tommy Burns.
#football #celtic
A Lennon in the shower moment incoming?
I’d rather have Neil Lennon as manager than Robbie Keane purely because of Keane’s baggage issues, which the UNPRINCIPLED PLC would not bat an eye lid to.
The hugely impressive Darren O’Dea needs to be brought under MON’s wing in some capacity, there is a lot of good tools in the O’Dea toolkit, to be properly utilized. imho.
But, the hypocrite fans need to get real and admit that they said not a word when actual [ iof ] creatures were playing in the Celtic FC first team.
I mean ffs!!!
Tippy Tappy idealists always get found out….then they blame the board
Neil Lennon, Scott Brown, Peter Lawwell, the entire PLC, contrived to throw the 10 in a row season under the bus for old firm reasons, whilst DD was on the golf course keeping his fingers clean of ‘that’ sellout.
And the hypocrite fans blamed Neil Lennon and Peter Lawwell for the 10 season disaster.
Were Celtic fans eyes just painted on when Broony was game managing [ throwing games for whom? ] on the pitch during the 10 season, elbowing wee boys and getting sent off, and within minutes after he’d returned from his suspension he tried to elbow another wee boy in the face, knowing that a red card would be the outcome, and Celtic probably dropping more points as well, like he did in another season in the CL when if you even looked at Barcelona’s creepy player, NEYMAR then you’d be booked, and sleekit SB tried 2 pathetic lunges from the halfway line to trip up, to bring NEYMAR down from the back, succeeding at the 4th attempt, then getting a red card. in a CL game at bemused Parkhead
Any Celtic fan who cannot see the sleekitry looking out of Scott Brown’s eyes are the reason why all of the other sleekitry flies over their dumbed down heids!
Its all so sad.
Hypocrite fans are the common denominator in ALL of Celtic’s troubles since the end of the JUNGLE era which paved a way for a Celtic supporter base with no balls or voice, which renders them as easy meat pickings for the far too smart for them, sleekit PLC board, since Fergus McCann got his hands on the levers of power, and since then, only a fool looking to be shafted would trust a single word that comes from the post 1994 Celtic executive.
Winning dozens of trophies in a one horse league with virtually zero opposition, or self imploded mountains to climb, placates the green tinted bigots, spoiling them, making them entitled, “Celtic Expects” kind of arrogance has been bred and raised, and shaped by the most gullible supporter base in Celtic’s history.
It is all so sad.
For its a grand old PLC to pay for, etc, etc, yadda, yadda, dumber, and dumber, etc, etc.
Interesting times ahead.
Oh man
Narcissistic persecution running riot
geebee1978 on 22nd May 2026 1:01 pm
If Rabbi Keane, MoN and Bellamy is the extent of our search then it’s clear nothing has changed and it’s a matter of when, not if, Sevco and Hearts catch us.
Nothing changes until the desmonds & the rest of the shysters leave the building.
You got me cringing with rabbi keane comment. What fid he do?
The first opportunity to show weve learned about the importance of unity and we’re blundering into the old mistakes again
Infuriating
All about Celtic
There is a bit of “one last time” for many tomorrow
For some it could be their last game wearing the hoops
One or two may decide it’s time to go
Many more will be sent on their way
But I hope and pray they can give their Manager one last tune this season
If ever a Celtic Manager deserved fairytale ending
It’s Saint Martin O’Neill
67ECW
67 European Cup Winners on 22nd May 2026 2:10 pm
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Hopefully the MON story has a couple of unexpected chapters to go yet.
Celtic40me
Is the Keane speculation as ripe with Spurs would you know?
HH
Been researching mr bloon, The crook. The king of the betting syndicates. The man that likes to rob his pals of millions of pounds. The man that likes to smear his employee’s (note gus poyet). The man that likes to smear rival clubs in the media (sound familiar?). This weeks media campaign, i finger him as the prime suspect, or people close to him. It is his m.o. that man is dirty. In my dive on tony, i also found that arsenals sponsors are a despicable orgsnisation heavily invested in genocide. The one that got me tjough, roman abromovich & his $600 million investments in the occupied territories.
An Tearmann on 22nd May 2026 2:16 pm
Celtic40me
Is the Keane speculation as ripe with Spurs would you know?
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He might be waiting to see if Spurs get relegated?