Jumping to conclusions is an Olympic event in Scottish football.
On one hand we have a notoriously low tolerance threshold. One game is all it takes to change minds, harden attitudes and shorten tempers. Good becomes bad overnight. If, on the other hand, you’re the winner of that one game, memory banks are closed where the recent past is concerned. For example, Celtic fans revelled in beating Rangers in two cup ties and a league match since the start of 2023 despite not playing particularly well.
But when they didn’t play well and lost to Rangers at Ibrox last weekend, what was once a virtue then became a vice. Celtic’s strength in depth has now been called into question by their own supporters. This might be thought a premature criticism of a team who are one game away from a world record-breaking Treble and with the recently crowned Player and Manager of the Year on their side.
