Having already overruled erroneous officials on two occasions, yesterday’s Video Assistant Referee could bear no more and declined to confirm the ball struck Joe Newell’s arm before he scored for Hibernian.
Bad though that decision was, it was nothing on the second half incident when a penalty was not awarded to Celtic. Josh Campbell, who was already on a yellow card, shoved Benjamin Nygren off the field with both hands inside the box. It was a stonewall penalty and a similar incident to the foul given against Sebastian Tounekti which led to the Hibs equaliser. Campbell should have received a second yellow, reducing Hibs to 9 men for the second week running.
The VAR team was not prepared to go there. They could do nothing about Celtic’s onside goal. Jamie McGrath’s studs to the shin of Alistair Johnston was equally undeniable. A line was drawn, Celtic were getting no more.
This is how it is going to be between now and the end of the league campaign. I predict Celtic will get a soft penalty in the Scottish Cup Final, “proof” that these things even themselves out. In the league, anything that can be overlooked will be overlooked. You know decisions against Celtic are laughable when even Kris Boyd confirms it.
Celtic dominated the encounter even before the 21st minute red card, but failed to test stand-in keeper Jordan Smith often enough. The return to the starting line-up of Alistair Johnston brought the equaliser. The fullback timed his run and cross perfectly, leaving Daizen Maeda the simplest of tap-ins.
From then until late in the second half, Celtic fans were thinking, “When’s he going to bring on Kelechi?” Our 29-year-old striker is by the length of the M8 between Edinburgh and Glasgow the most talented player in Scotland, who looks like he is playing against schoolboys. Getting the best out of him over the next three games will determine the outcome of the league.
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Brilliant by Wu. Murphy was excellent and I was worried his safety would win it. There’s never been anyone that’s potted so many outrageous long pots like him.
Ziggy- top quality stuff
Stebhoy,
Agree 100%.Sarrachi.To have a player like that sitting on the bench,with the dearth of real talent we have is unforgivable.
On Sunday they will line up 4-4-2,Hearts stated tonight,4-3-3,and were overrun in the midfield,like we could be on Sunday,especially playing Nygren in the 3.
A midfield of Engels,Calmac,Hatate,Sarrachi,would have legs and guile.
No idea why this has been happening,the guy is far to good,and pacy.A back 4 of AJ,Trusty Scales,KT,behind that midfield 4 with Maeda and Yang up front.
Nygren,Nacho,Jamesy,.on the bench with Luke.
He won’t do it,still in the year 2000 mode.
Just hoping he watched the difference tonight when Hearts went 4-4-2.
I thought their history began in 2012, I was certain they were liquidated am I wrong?
I thought the Huns would be playing conference football if they finish third but I’ve been told that’s only the case if Dunfermline win the cup. So likely the Huns will play Europa league. Much like ourselves and Hearts.
An Dún on 4th May 2026 10:00 pm
This young Chinese lad reminds me of a young Jimmy White.
looks nothing like him.
Good set of results for us this weekend, IMHO
We’re still hanging in there, just.
Hearts will finish 1st or 2nd
Celtic will finish 1st, 2nd or 3rd
R2ngers will finish 2nd or 3rd
Hearts are deservedly on an emotional high tonight.
Credit to them.
And credit where it is due also to you Paul.
Before the season started you warned us about Hearts.
Goodnight CQN
QUANTUM on 4TH MAY 2026 8:29 PM
Not sure about that. If I’m reading Bert Kassies correctly second place in the league gets you into the CL qualifiers so at the moment there is still the potential for them to get the £40m pot
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AN DÚN on 4TH MAY 2026 8:34 PM
If the Huns finish third they’re playing conference next season
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We should make sure that they don’t finish second.
Finishing 3rd gives them Europa League football unless we lose the SC final to Dunfermline, in which case they will play Conference league.
flynn on 4th May 2026 9:24 pm
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SHOCKING DUTCH COURT BOMBSHELL: COVID JABS OFFICIALLY LABELED BIOWEAPONS in Historic Case Against Bill Gates & Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
For the FIRST TIME EVER, a Dutch court is hearing sworn evidence that the mRNA “vaccines” are **military bioweapons** — not medicine.,,,,
Weird kind of bioweapon that hardly killed anyone but actually saved many many lives except for maybe a very few unfortunates who may have died from anaphylactic reactions if they couldn’t get hold of any adrenaline.
Of course this could have happened from exposure to other lethal bioweapons such as peanuts, shellfish, bee stings, wasps, latex gloves (the horror the horror…)
Fortunately the Germans didn’t twig onto this during WWII so we were spared peanut, prawn or latex glove bombs being dropped on us. The poor bomb disposal troops would have been most at risk of course, imagine having to diffuse a peanut bomb, the very stuff of nightmares (shudder)
Saluting our hero Bobby Sands.
1981 hunger striker Pat Sheehan delivers a powerful and emotive speech on his comrade Bobby Sands leadership during the battle for political status in the H-Blocks and his death on hunger strike 45 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8iHx8dA6Zw
May all involved in the poisoning of citizens with a Covid bioweapon be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
https://expose-news.com/2026/04/29/senior-covid-advisor-charged-with-conspiracy/
Sad are the homes….
I understand that our average points per game under MON has been 2.5. Had he remained during the Nancy interlude this average would have delivered 15 points as opposed to the 6 out of 18 delivered by Nancy. On that basis we would be sitting 6 points clear with 3 to play. While there have been many issues this season, the biggest mistake was the appointment of Nancy and not marching on with O’Neil.
Croftcelt on 5th May 2026 12:38 am
“The biggest mistake was the appointment of Nancy and not marching on with O’Neil.”
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And yet 53,000 dunderhieds will trust those who recruited Nancy, and then the 53,000 will blame the same board for making the same “Save Rangers at any price” managerial choice then throw tennis balls onto the pitch!
And anybody who says “I told you so” will be called a bad smell. lol
Sad is the era dimdumb….
From jobo
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025-26*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #55 HIBS 1 CELTIC 2 (MAEDA, IHEANACHO)*
Good evening, friends.
Maeda scored his 4th goal in 3 games and our 100th of the season whilst Iheanacho chipped in with his 4th goal in 5 games. Both are contributing very well as we continue our ambitions to secure 5 in a row.
Celtic have now played 55 games, and have won 30, drawn 12 and lost 13. We have scored 101 goals and conceded 64. A good weekend saw us extend our lead over 3rd place Sevco. But we remain 3 points off the top and 5 goals worse off with 3 games remaining.
And slight drop in voting numbers but a huge thank you to the 94 who polled this time around. And a very tight race at the top it was too.
The total votes cast for each player (with my own nominations asterisked) are as follows –
Sinisalo: 0
Johnston: 47
Trusty: 9
Scales: 1
Tierney: 22
McGregor*: 10
Engels: 17
Nygren: 1
Yang*: 3
Maeda*: 79
Tounekti: 0
Forrest: 3
McCowan: 4
Iheanacho: 83
Ralston: 0
Unused substitutes: Doohan, Hatate, Murray, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Saracchi
And so, the POINTS earned by each player for the game against Hibs are as follows –
25 points: Iheanacho
22 points: Maeda
19 points: Johnston
16 points: Tierney
14 points: Engels
12 points: McGregor
11 points: Trusty
10 points: McCowan
9 points each: Forrest and Yang
7 points each: Nygren and Scales
4 points each: Ralston, Sinisalo and Tounekti
1 point each: Doohan, Hatate, Murray, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Saracchi
The cumulative points achieved after 55 games played are as follows –
739: Tierney
705: McGregor
703: Scales
533: Maeda
523: Trusty
517: Nygren
511: Yang
486: Engels
480: Hatate
454: Tounekti
403: Forrest
370: McCowan
359: Schmeichel
311: Iheanacho
310: Donovan
281: Saracchi
253: Ralston
244: Araujo
231: Sinisalo
191: Kenny
163: Bernardo and Murray
158: Carter-Vickers
125: Cvancara and Oxlade-Chamberlain
85: Johnston
83: Arthur
78: Yamada
76: Balikwisha
43: Adamu
40: Osmand
23: Inamura
20: Doohan
19: Idah
17: Welsh
14: Simpson-Pusey
8: Mvuka
3: Isiguso and McArdle
2: Hale
1: Hayney and Hatton
0: All the other players who’ve not yet made a matchday squad!
This coming weekend sees 2 very important games. On Saturday evening leaders Hearts travel to Motherwell (kick off 8.00pm). Then it’s a Sunday High Noon kick off for Celtic at home to Triggers Broom FC where a win for Celtic would officially consign The Blue meanies to 3rd place.
Hail Hail!
Bobby Sands
https://x.com/i/status/2051440008305762624
HH
Anthem of Vatican City (Holy See): Hymnus et modus militaris Pontificalis
https://youtu.be/oilI9Kq8408?si=qdSFx47BRaeRfVHF
Ave Ave
Post Scriptum:
Vatican Media Live
https://www.youtube.com/live/03pYP2Nmreo?si=ap2aOXGSBQ9OoTKh
Ave Ave
Good Morning Fholk – Grand Day To Be A Tim,
Well that was an interesting weekend of football in Edinburgh.
A result at Easter Road we so desperately needed.
A result at Tynecastle that we certainly didn’t.
Got to say Tynecastle had a great atmosphere – loud and proud before the game, rocking like they’d one hand on the trophy and real belief after the game.
Ages ago on this site I said there was a huge footballing opportunity for an ambitious owner in Edinburgh, when Ann Budge chose not develop a purpose built 21st century stadium but to decided to redevelop Tynecastle I knew it wasn’t her – the new stadium was the smart move that would enable the club to expand to get the much needed resources and revenues for European football.
Of course, she did some great stuff, they are fan owned now and have a co-owner that is an interested sporting and football partner; who has know-how, ambition and has way more vision and enthusiasm for their club than anyone one in Scottish football has shown for over thirty years.
Luckily for us they are still in the fledgling stage of the project.
So my confidence in us winning the double hasn’t wilted and there was always a possibility we’d have to do it the hard way – and now we know that’s how it’s going down.
We had by far the toughest last three games of the contenders after the split and it’s those games we must now face.
It now appears to win the league we need to win them all – which means, despite what has gone down this season, we will well and truly deserve to be Champions.
Imagine the double – what an achievement that will be.
Hail Hail
Good Morning CQN
We haven’t beaten the Govan works team in the league since Sept 2024
They will want to burst our title challenge this Sunday, that’s all they have left
Jam Tarts now have one hand on the trophy, fair play to McInnes, he turned it around last night with tactical and personnel changes
Our own challenge this season has been subverted by inexcusable irrational football decisions by DD and the executive, the Wilfreid Nancy decision and the timing to put him in place was unfathomable
I will be there on Sunday playing my part in supporting the Celtic
Curtis Sliwa “up the rebels”. Brillant
https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2051454337977631214?s=20
aff oot
A wee bit of whataboutery from Piers
THEHOPEFULPESSIMISTICTIM on 4TH MAY 2026 9:10 PM
Beat the Huns 3-0 .
Better the Hearts score against Motherwell .
Beats the Jambos 2-0 .
The title will be ours .
TT
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If all things remain equal until the last day, you do realise that Celtic beating Hearts 3-0 wipes out their 5 goal advantage?
…to the Western islands @ 11:53 pm,
Not one to get involved in this, though interesting how these sheep who were stupid, saps, are now innocent human beings who were victims… seriously!?
Not one for meaningless incarceration
but if I were king; the paperpetrators of these insulting and malevolent diatrabes would be in a common facility with a Lan and no outside connection…
They can keyboard to their wee heart’s content and drive their whole klatsch even nuttier in there.
Hail Hail
Hearts have a 75% chance now of winning the league according to the stat modelling. They’re big bookies favourites.
We’re up against it but of course we will keep fighting. Askou has his job interview on Saturday night.
We’re in the final stage of a poker game….playing against an expert.
“But how did Anthony Grant Bloom, known as “Tony”, manage to pull this off? The answer lies in his career. The 55-year-old once studied mathematics, before turning his attention to poker and sports betting. Thanks to sophisticated mathematical systems, he became a successful gambling entrepreneur and poker millionaire. And unlike other investors, he had his own ideas about how to approach the football business.
He devised a data-driven transfer system based on his expertise in the betting industry, which he has already used as majority owner to lift his beloved English Premier League club Brighton and Hove Albion, as well as the Belgian provincial club Union St. Gilloise, to new sporting heights. Bloom also owns a 19.1 per cent stake in the Australian club Melbourne Victory.”
I’m no poker expert, but I reckon I could beat an opponent who takes his pair of Kings, throws them away and replaces them with a 2 and a 3, then replaces his Ace with a Joker…..
I was listening to Graham Spiers’ podcast at the weekend with Andrew Aitch Smith, ex of the Celtic View and Scotland on Sunday, now of the Celtic Underground pod.
He did a right convincing impression of the Rev IM Jolly which was quite unsettling. Between his downbeat grumbles he made a rather salient point:
In his view, this is Celtic’s most inept attack since 1995, before we signing big Pierre in the January. Following the Hibs match, he noted, we have played 35 matches and scored 64 goals. At the same point last season we had scored 104 goals. This Celtic team has no teeth. It’s piss poor.
But but but… we’ve still scored more goals than Hearts. Despite The Great Shankland and Radio Braga, Hearts are even worse than us when it comes to scoring goals.
That’s how bad the standard is in Scottish football this season.
It makes for a cliff-hanger end of season and fabulous box office, but it marks the low tide in terms of the standard of the game Aitch says.
I wouldn’t prognosticate on the outcome of the title race on the basis of the above, except to say that, with Celtic 5 goals behind, Hearts’ trouble scoring is of course a benefit to Celtic, only if we can start scoring ourselves.
Yesterday’s result leaves us needing a snooker. Do-able of course, but trickier than it would have been if, like Jorge Cadete, we’d only put the ball in the back of the net more often.
On which topic, Iheanacho is a six yard box goals machine. Find a way to play him and Maeda closer together, get the ball crossed to the six yard line and let’s get scoring, bhoys.
We’ll need to beat Hearts at Celtic Park if we are to win the league (and R2ngers and the Muthers before that). I’d rather not have a goal difference deficit to overcome too.
MON can do without another goal difference title loss. Damned sure I can do without that, too.
https://x.com/theshamrock1888/status/2051423288618893543?s=48
No laughing at the back…….
I notice that if Motherwell win their next match they all but guarantee European football next season. That’s a significant incentive when Hearts rock up to Fir park on Saturday night.
Also notable, Falkirk at Tynecastle next Wednesday will be gunning for 5th place and probable European football if they avoid defeat by Hibs at home at the weekend.
Hearts have turned in two huge results in the past week – wins away to Hibs and at home to R2ngers.
But they’ve got a couple of tricky ties left before the come to Celtic Park to collect the Championship trophy.
Until last night I didn’t think Hearts could win the league but now I think they will. Opta saying they have a 75% chance which sounds about right.
Although I think MO’N deserves to win it I don’t think Desmond, Nicholson and McKay do (understatement).
They deserve the grotesque failure likely coming their way. The price of their arrogance.
I am comforted by the huns not winning it. We can recover from Hearts winning it within a season – provided we get shot of the failures who have led us to this point.
I loathe McInnes and Hearts but being honest they deserve it and we don’t.
The Everton game last night shows how unpredictable football is and how important mood can be
Everyone thought city had it won when they beat Arsenal and were 1-0 up but all it took was for them to start coasting and theyve as good as lost it. A mad 15 minute spell probably coat them the league
Hearts behaved like they’d done the job on the final whistle yersterday. It might not take much for panic to set in if things dont go their way in the next 2 games
‘It’s the hope that kills you,’ seems to be the mood of depressed Govanites this morning.
Point of information: it’s really not. It is in fact the taxman.
PLB
The team that wins the league deserves it. Thats the nature of a 38 game league season. If they can deal with the pressure of the last 3 games theyre deserved champions
I think with all our success we might have lost sight of how difficult it is to win the league, any league.
We’ve made many mistakes, but if they can’t get over the line and we make up 8 and 6 point deficits to win it then we deserve the title. Plucky losers dont deserve anything except for sympathy
I’m relaxed about the outcome now that TFOD are out if it.
If we can’t get ourselves together to beat a crap hun team, and then Motherwell and Hearts we don’t really deserve it.
If Hearts can hold their nerve, they do deserve it.
And this kind of shock will hopefully prompt a complete gear shift over the summer to get back to where we need to be.
All that said, I believe that big characters – CalMac, KT, AJ, and yes, Liam Scales, will get us over the line.
Times are a changing.
A very entertaining bank holiday of sport we could enjoy after doing the business on Sunday.
Despite the warranted 3 points on Sunday and a day of celebrations, the game itself was poor fare.
I’m soooo glad I watched it in the pub and not at home / work. Additional stimulation was a must.
Hearts v huns was like watching paint dry in the first half with the huns looking the better bet . At half time Mcinnes took a major gamble and changed it. The transformation was clear to see and Hearts deserved their win and entertained the atmospheric crowd.
We shall soon find out if Mcinnes is a serial loser. ( If the videos are correct he can certainly bang out a proscribed song )
Mr Wu was fab and we are witnessing a change of guard. It is estimated that over 100 m people tuned in at some point in the final.
His style is one of calculated risk with entertaining breathtaking shots. Great to watch.
It’s like fast entertaining play is crushing the boring tippy tappy negative safety play. Of course there is a parallel.
Then we had the hughly entertaining game at Everton. Davie Moyes’s team playing uncharacteristically entertaining attacking football.
I hope Arsenal can win their league, they are a long way from the boring boring Arsenal chants of the past.
Our season ticket renewals are there to contemplate with over inflation rises as anticipated. Speaking to a friend who is undecided. This is a shock as he has held a ST for as long as I have known him. However he states main front stand has English Premier league prices without the EPL players.
Most of us will renew out of a sense of belonging. This is the card the club are certainly playing.
Ditch the tippy tappy please Celtic, follow the trend and please your fans.
HH, the journey continues.
Martin O’Neill interview (from Lennoxtown) on TalkSport @ some point this morning….
Getting beat in CL qualifying by teams with 1/5th of our budget has been normalised over the last twenty years, we need to be careful a similar attitude doesn’t develop as re Hearts.
This season should Hearts win is 100% on the idiots that appointed Nancy to drive the Honda civic off the cliff.
Bloom taking one season to beat us is a damning indictment of this board should MoN prove unable to save the season.