There is always talk after games like this about matches of two halves and all that sort of thing. I honestly don’t know where Celtic were in the first half. We didn’t show up at all. However, once we got a grip on the second half, we never looked back.

The Ibrox club will console themselves with the fact that we needed a penalty to get anything out of the game. They are free to think that if they like. Even some of their own podcasters admitted this morning that Celtic were clearly the better team after the break and that they all saw that the goal was coming. I watched a couple of them, and to their credit they gave us full and deserved praise.

Some people will say I’m overreacting, or going too early, when I say this. Nevertheless, I think yesterday knocks them out of the title race.

We have a game in hand on Hearts and can move within five points if we win it. The Ibrox club would still be a point further back. More importantly, they simply do not look like a side with the mentality for this. Their supporters don’t want to...