Celtic may well remember November when trophies are won

During November Celtic has shaved seven points off the Hearts lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership and reached a Cup final after beating city rivals theRangers at Hampden. All credit to the players and the interim management team lead by Martin O’Neill.

It’s fair to say that Celtic were lucky to get all three points in Paisley on Saturday night. We looked disjointed and devoid of ideas, and looked nothing like a title winning side. That being said, I think myself and others are being a tad harsh on the side, especially when you look at the current circumstances.

As I speak, we are missing three mainstays of the side in Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter Vickers and Jota. Not to mention being denied the services of Kelechi Iheanacho, Marcelo Saracchi, Callum Osmand, and James Forrest.

Then there’s the small matter of not having a permanent manager in place after Brendan Rodgers left at the end of last month, so to say things are a bit unstable at this moment in time would be an understatement to say the least.

That makes our recent domestic results all that more impressive under the guidance of Martin O’Neill, Shaun Maloney and Mark Fotheringham.

Taking the reins after the 3-1 defeat to Hearts, the stand-in management team have won three consecutive Scottish Premiership fixtures, significantly cutting the gap between ourselves and the Jambos in the process, not to mention defeating our bitter rivals to reach a cup final.

During that run, the side have scored 12 and conceded only once, which was from the penalty spot. We might be in a bit of disarray, but we’re still getting results, you can’t deny that. There was one disappointing result, in Denmark against FC Midtjylland in the Europa League where the weaknesses in this current Celtic squad were fully exposed.

But MON & Co can only work with the squad that is there and the players that are fit and even to them that’s been challenging with one injury set-back after another. Full credit to them for steadying the ship and winning all domestic matches they’ve handled. And to the players too, even on Saturday at a difficult venue and not having played well in the game, Celtic still found a way to secure the three points and pile the pressure on Hearts ahead of yesterday game at Pittodrie against Aberdeen.

That, Jambos, is why we are Champions. See you on 7 December at Celtic Park…