What an end to the league season that was. All down to the last match shootout with Hearts. Nervy, but a brilliant way to take the SPFL title, for the fifth consecutive time.
Some Celtic fans will definitely be thinking of more to come too. Is it time to start the Ten-in-a-row dream again? For much of this season, it looked like the counter would be reset on that one. There was more of a nightmare than a dream for the Celtic faithful.
The return of Martin O’Neill helped steady the ship, twice. He took the club to a League Cup Final, and after returning again in January, he has led the side to much more. That League title win on Saturday is very special indeed, not to mention a brutal treble over Rangers as O’Neill dumped them out of all three domestic trophies.
Cetic take their fifth consecutive league title and start fans dreaming of more
Credit to Hearts for their season. They led for months, but it is the team that's top of the league when the final whistle blows that matters. Once again, Celtic, somewhat remarkably this season, come out as Champions. And that raises the ten-in-a-row question.
Is it too early to dream of that again? Well, there’s no easy answer to that. There is a long way to go to get close to that status. As this season has shown, along with that awful Covid season six years before, a lot can change very quickly.
In the short term, there is more than enough for Celtic to focus on. A Scottish Cup Final against Neil Lennon’s Dunfermline is up next. As Celtic fans well know, nothing is certain at Hampden. Lennon will have his side motivated and prepared well for the final.
After that, whatever the result, the summer will be huge. There is a vacancy in the manager's role. There are significant quality gaps in the playing squad. And there needs to be a lot of early activity on recruitment for all aspects of that.
Celtic has plenty to focus on in the sort term
That league title win secures a Champions League playoff round tie. As was the case this season. But the result next time needs to be far better. No one wants a repeat of that Kairat Almaty disaster.
While ten-in-a-row remains a valid distant hope, the focus has to be on lifting the cup and the summer preparations, and that playoff. The fans backed the team hugely in recent weeks and will do so again at Hampden. They’ll be needed again next season for sure. The best way to keep that dream of ten titles alive is that old mantra of taking it one game at a time, and one season at a time too.
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