This afternoon I was on the BBC website trying to get a sense of what the Celtic team was likely to be. The Hearts game was on in the background and I read a very unusual comment, allegedly from a Celtic fan writing saying that he was hoping for a Hearts win.

It dawned on me at once that this guy simply doesn’t believe we are going to win this, and he is hoping Hearts will.

Well, I’ve got news for that guy. You were dead wrong. Perhaps not about us not winning it, because I still wonder if that’s going to happen myself. But you are absolutely, positively, 100 per cent wrong to think that this title was ever going anywhere near Edinburgh. It is not, and it never was. I’ve been saying that from day one.

This title is staying in Glasgow.

All that remains to be seen is which of the two Glasgow clubs it ends up with. People need to get rid of the illusion they’re clinging to, that if we don’t win it then Hearts might. Hearts are not going to win the title.

Hearts are not good enough to win the title. They...