CELTIC are the champions for the FIFTY-FITH time – but they will have to wait until it is mathematically signed, sealed and delivered before the silverware is bedecked in green and white ribbons.Their nearest challengers from Ibrox required a win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie this afternoon, but could only manage a 2-2 draw courtesy of a dramatic last-kick equaliser from Ianis Hagi.
The champions now sit on 81 points – a total Rangers can only match if they win all remaining five games after the split.Brendan Rodgers’ men would be required to lose all five by landslide margins to be denied their fourth consecutive title and their thirteenth crown in 14 years in a truly stupendous sequence of success.
Celtic have a superior goal difference of plus-75 compared to the Govan club’s plus-33 – an advantage of FORTY-TWO goals. Boyd declared, “The title race is still on!” as Hamza Igamane’s stoppage-time equaliser salvaged a point for Rangers — a result that merely staved off Celtic’s inevitable crowning.
It would be the biggest sensation in world football history if the Hoops somehow contrived to fail to win the championship.
The champagne celebrations have been merely stalled after the Dons allowed a 2-0 half-time lead to slip with the visitors, reduced to men after Ross McCausland’s first-half red card, coming back to claim a point with a leveller in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
There was barely time to recentre the ball before referee Steven McLean blew for time-up.
The Dons thought they had claimed a third through a Kevin Nisbet strike in the 88th minute, but VAR official Andrew Dallas ruled it out for a handball.
The stalemate has merely delayed the inevitable.
CELTIC are the champions for the FIFTY-FITH time – but they will have to wait until it is mathematically signed, sealed and delivered before the silverware is bedecked in green and white ribbons.
Their nearest challengers from Ibrox required a win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie this afternoon, but could only manage a 2-2 draw courtesy of a dramatic last-kick equaliser from Ianis Hagi.
The champions now sit on 81 points – a total Rangers can only match if they win all remaining five games after the split.
