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A Beautiful Sunday, A Beautiful Week, And The Good Ship Celtic Sails On!

Easter Road, Sunday 30 November 2025. Hibs v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

Forget the Rodgers/ Board/ Fan negativity; Celtic have ended their perfect week with a very good win over Hibernian at Easter Road. There are so many positives to take from this, so, where do I start?

Let’s start with the manager; Martin O’Neill has breezed back into Celtic Park in a manner befitting a legend of yesteryear. Now, his legend is growing, and our prayers are being answered. St. Martin of Kilrea has brought a stability back to our ailing club, and united what was threatening to become a rudderless vessel.

Martin O’Neill with Reo Hatate. Easter Road, Sunday 30 November 2025. Hibs v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

Brendan Rodgers departed in acrimonious circumstances with Dermot Desmond’s acerbic tongue lashing him digitally as he headed for…God knows where. Meanwhile, Celtic’s season was in danger of floundering after a series of uninspiring outings, defeats, and draws. Our goals-for column made dull reading, matching the performances on the pitch.

The fans were rightly at odds with the board, a body of men who refused to fund Celtic’s bid to bring multi-millions into the club by qualifying for the Champions League. Kairat Almaty took our spot…

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Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay at Easter Road. Sunday 30 November 2025. Hibs v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

The bean-counters failed us, again, after season after season of abject failures in the exact same manner. They refuse to buy the players needed BEFORE the qualifiers to take that final step; God alone knows why, but hey, they’re Celtic men, right? As they were when they participated in the ‘Five-Way Agreement’ scam!

These failures refused to take the normal route in terms of satiating the support or acknowledging our angst and anger. Yes, that same fan-base whose hard-earned cash props up their luxury lifestyles. The board, in my opinion, sneakily sabotaged the AGM, and pulled up stumps in order to disappear back down their malt whisky decanters before vital and relevant questions were asked of them.

Celtic players applaud the away support at Easter Road. Sunday 30 November 2025. Hibs v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

They refused to be held to account and publicly shamed themselves in the most cowardly fashion. The fans STILL do not have answers, but we do have a resurrected board who snuck back into the Parkhead drinks cabinet in the middle of the night. Sounds familiar?

Along came Martin. Out of the blue, the gaffer was spirited back to his spiritual home, and the ghosts of 2003 appear to have followed him into Paradise.

The team is not miraculously perfect all of a sudden, neither is the style of play, but we’re back to winning ways, and our football is fluid and exciting to watch much of the time. It’s been quite a while since we could say that!

After capitulating to Hearts and losing our manager in mid-season, O’Neill has overseen a remarkable resurrection. We beat Falkirk, 4-0. We beat theRangers 3-1 in the Premier Sports Cup semi-final, and how we celebrated. Losing to Midtjylland after such a draining victory was not a disaster-we would recover.

Daizen Maeda at Easter Road. Sunday 30 November 2025. Hibs v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

A 4-0 romp against Kilmarnock and a good away win at St Mirren courtesy of Calmac’s last-gasp wonder strike brought us hope that we could maybe, maybe, snatch something in De Kuip against old friends/foes, Feyenoord. We owed them!

A magnificent 3-1 triumph in that cauldron brought tears to a green glass eye. What a performance, and we all fawned over the dugout to project worthy praise.

Yesterday we faced a banana skin if ever there was one. Hibs at Easter Road is not a place for the faint hearted when you’re looking to potentially catch their table-topping (for now!) Edinburgh rivals.

However, it was Hibs who hit the skids, and Celtic vaulted this tough hurdle with a stirring first half display. Is O’Neill really getting a tune out of the much-maligned Yang? Indeed he is, and Arne Engels, and the Scales/Trusty partnership, Reo is back in form, and so on, and so forth. And…we had other good fortune befall us this weekend.

Yang and Saracchi at Easter Road. Sunday 30 November 2025. Hibs v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

Hearts dropped yet another two points at Motherwell, and the Steelmen hammered another nail into the prospective Gorgie Championship coffin. The Jam Tarts (that’s Hearts, not…) are only two points ahead of Celtic now, but we have a game in hand.

Should we beat Dundee on Wednesday, and win on Sunday against Hearts then we go top of the tree and we still have that game in hand. I do believe Stevie Wonder can see what’s coming. Maybe no ’86 and all that, but just as important.

Celtic has a Cup final against St Mirren to contest soon. Celtic are back, and… Santa is coming!

Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney at Easter Road. Sunday 30 November 2025. Hibs v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

With Martin O’Neill on board the good ship Celtic to steer the club to sunnier climes until Nancy (we believe) takes the wheel, the future is bright; it’s Green and White!

Hail Hail!

Eddie Murray

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