Let’s talk about liberation, fellow Celtic fans. Let’s talk about the feeling you get when you no longer have to keep your mouth shut, when you no longer have to bite back what you really think, when you can finally let it all spill out in full flow and full flight.

For the first time in two years, Ibrox fans woke up to find their club on top of the table. After spending most of the season looking up at Hearts, that must feel pretty good. That must feel liberating. But it’s not just liberating for the Ibrox fans who follow their team every week and make no bones about what they are.

It is liberating too for members of the Scottish media who have been waiting for this moment every day of those two years. They had a very good night last night.

I don’t like that they had a very good night last night. When a team went above Hearts this season, that should have been us. There have been enough opportunities along the way for it to be us. We’ve squandered those chances and now we are where we are.

We cannot cry over that. We...