A Celtic title win would be the sweetest but not our greatest

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·21 March 2026

A Celtic title win would be the sweetest but not our greatest

A Celtic title win would be the sweetest, but it would be far from our greatest…

Martin O’Neill applauds the Celtic support. theRangers v Celtic. 1st March 2026. Photograph by Vagelis Georgariou

It’s fair to say that if we manage to win this year’s title, and there’s still a great chance that we will, then it will be one of the sweetest moments in the club’s history.

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Considering everything that’s happened in these last few months, from our incompetent dealings in the transfer market, to losing Brendan Rodgers, then turning to Martin O’Neill, then being lumbered with the inept Wilfried Nancy, before Martin rescued us in our hour of need yet again. So to still be in touching distance of top spot is absolutely tremendous, ridiculously so.

Tomas Cvancara of Celtic celebrates after scoring his team’s second goal during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Motherwell at Celtic Park on March 14, 2026 . (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

We’ve also suffered the blow of losing several key first team players for a lengthy period, players who are mainstays of the side. This campaign is on a par with the infamous COVID campaign, although remarkably the current crop of players are in a much worse position than Neil Lennon’s side of that period, so to still be in contention is quite frankly astonishing.

That’s in a big way down to our Glasgow rivals having just a poor a campaign as ourselves, something that Heart of Midlothian have taking full advantage of, although it seems that the wheels might be starting to fall off the Gorgie bandwagon, although a late winner at Tynecastle today gave them a hard fought 1-0 victory over Dundee.

Tomorrow Celtic has a chance to bring the gap back to two points and also to add to our own goals for column, because that may well be significant. We had been there before.

Hyunjun Yang of Celtic celebrates scoring his team’s third goal during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Motherwell at Celtic Park on March 14, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

A terrific comeback to rescue a point at Ibrox, plus a battling win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie, and a spirited home win over an inform Motherwell have rejuvenated our title hopes, not to mention the dramatic penalty shootout win at Ibrox has raised the confidence and spirit of the entire squad and support, giving us some much needed hope in the run in for a dream league and Scottish Cup double.

Three of our games after the split are also at home, so the possibility of securing five in a row is a lot more likelier than it was a month ago. We have to win all our games of course, but our destiny is firmly in our own hands, and confidence is high that the players under the guidance of Martin O’Neill can do just that.

Tomas Cvancara celebrates scoring the penalty that takes Celtic into the semi-finals. Scottish Cup quarter final on Sunday 8 March 2026. Photograph by Vagelis Georgariou

Will it be the greatest title win ever? No I wouldn’t go that far as we’ve been shockingly poor for a the entirety of this campaign, but it will be one of the sweetest, that’s for sure.

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