THE BLUE MELTDOWN CONTINUES

The meltdown from the Blue half of Glasgow continued all week after Celtic’s dramatic League Cup final win over the rangers. Not only did we win the Cup but we also claimed their most successful club in the World title. They made it up and now they have to listen to Celtic fans boasting about 119 trophies. CCV holding up the 119 at the darts alongside his Celtic team mates will have only added salt to the wound.

Sunday, December 15, 2024, Glasgow was Green and White and Hampden Park was cleared of fans in blue long before Callum McGregor lifted the League Cup to bring it back to Celtic Park to sit beside the Scottish Cup and SPFL Trophy in the trophy room.

Across the city at Ibrox the blue room is bare, a song we taunted Rangers fans with when Martin O’Neill lifted the treble and took all the silverware to the East End of Glasgow for the first time since the late great Jock Stein. The new rangers will also have to get the painters in to paint over the wall that claims they are the most successful club in the World. A trophyless trophy room with a new paint job for Christmas.

When I booked my day return flight from Dublin for the final, I knew it would be tight to get back that evening to the airport on time to catch the flight home if the game went to extra time. After Kuhn scored Celtic’s third, it was happy days for all of 60 seconds until Danilo levelled the game again now my return flight was in doubt.

I was not prepared to leave Hampden for the airport with the game hanging on a knife edge and the decision was an easy one. Celtic had been off form and frustrating to watch at times as the game went from end to end before the penalty shoot out.

Maeda was the hero on the day scoring the winning penalty after scoring Celtic’s second goal which will be a contender for goal of the season. How cool was he when he slotted the ball home to send Celtic into massive celebrations not only in Hampden but in bars and clubs throughout the World.

At the same time as Maeda was celebrating with the other hero of the penalty saver Schmeichal I was making my way out of the stadium and into a taxi for the dash to the airport gate and thankfully I made the flight home.

At about the same time as I was jumping into the cab, the rangers manager Clément’s phone was receiving hundreds of text messages about the penalty claim, (liar, liar pants on fire) and then the big blue meltdown began and it has continued all week.

Social media has been the gift that keeps giving to Celtic fans from viewing the Celtic fans chasing the Union bears through Glasgow to their podcasters just making arses of themselves with the highlight being the bloke that said all Celtic’s goals were flukey.

Now we look forward to an away trip to Dundee to face United as my finger nails begin to grow again after last weekends nail biting day out in Glasgow as the blue meltdown continues across the city.

Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & host of the Celtic Soul Podcast