Celtic v Hearts, Scottish Premiership 29/03/2025. Referee Kevin Clancy during match at Celtic Park on 29 March 2025. Photo Malcolm Mackenzie PSI
MIBBERY – 3/10 – Come on, Clancy Drew, what was the persecution of The Rock all about? Grumpy MIBs have no place at title-chasing Paradise and the nitpicking consistency of penalising CCV’s every involvement go so irritating that the expectancy levels brought about a sardonic cheer when he actually did NOT blow against him. Even the big mhan had stopped awaiting another foul for… ‘Reasons.’ Alas, the MIBs’ collective demeanour remained – and will so do for months to come – forlorn and frustrated as the Hoops disposed of the Eastern Brethen comfortably.
Daizen Maeda after scoring during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Hearts at Celtic Park on March 29, 2025 (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
OVERALL – 7.5/10 – Well, that was great for half an hour. And that’s all it took to cut down those Moroons without eviscerating them completely. At 3, it looked like ten was possible, but the Bhoys took the control-without-conflict approach and saw out the game like the professional title-chasers they are, paying no heed for those of us baying for Jambo jam to flow and humiliate the away corner’s babbling demonic rabble.
Celtic got uncomfortable after another worrying sluggish opening – the only blight on the afternoon – had them energised and pressing us high. But we then found the ruthless champions’ streak when spaces opened and our creatives lit up. The goals were of the finest opulence, the third and final like receiving a vigorous, stimulating back massage then flipping over to find there’s a happy ending thrown in, compliments of the house: Maik snapped from deep into Arne, poked aside to Reo, slid to Kuhn, three strides and fizzed across for Daizen to zoom in and apply the finish. Half a dozen touches end-to-end.
Glorious.
And so the countdown continues.
Se7en. And the question is not ‘what’s in the box?’* but when do we get to open it? (See what I did there, fans of savagely dark classic and unique crime thrillers?).
*It’ll be the head of the Zombies. Metaphorically speaking…
Go Away Now
Sandman
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