If you hadn’t noticed, if you were watching the BBC‘s coverage of the Scottish Cup final from last season, sorry, this season, whatever, anyway, Celtic have just won a quadruple treble because they certainly never mentioned it in the commentary…
This now means that, despite throwing away the lead twice against a Championship side who only started their season in October and needing penalties to beat Hearts, all is well across at Parkhead and Neil Lennon is once again a world beating manager who has won a treble with, not one, but two asterisks next to it.
They had plenty of possession in the first half but rarely threatened Craig Gordon in the opposite goal, that the Scotland keeper started the competition for the other team is a mere footnote in history with the rules being bent, twisted and re-designed to suit one team when football was shutdown in March of this year.
That Hearts caused chaos almost every time they attacked or had a set piece says it all and the team that lies 16 points behind Rangers in the Scottish Premiership look every bit the team that lies 16 points behind Rangers in the Scottish Premiership.
Liam Boyce, Steven Naismith and Craig Wighton is hardly an attack that should strike fear into a defence full of players valued at tens of millions of pounds and yet it still managed to score three goals with the help of their teammates, none of them particularly well worked – they just came about because they had numbers in the box.
Will Lennon finish the season with Celtic?
Yes
No
There might have been six goals but it was a final bereft of any quality and something that should auger well for Rangers fans is that Scott Brown was bypassed more than the city of Edinburgh on the A720, you would be forgiven for thinking he was Pirlo the way he was strutting about an empty Hampden though.
With four season-defining fixtures on the horizon, the prospect of at least a 19 point lead after the Old Firm derby should be enough to motivate Steven Gerrard’s side if watching the Scottish Cup final wasn’t inspiring enough to make them believe that they have the chance to become history makers in their own right and win a trophy the old fashioned way – by playing every game in the season and winning more points than everyone else, rather than relying on the authorities to square you away.