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Aberdeen won the thing in 1985, every season since it's been either Celtic or Rangers. So I'm behind Hearts for this match. The 41 year duopoly has to end.
 
Is anyone watching this? Here is what I believe I just saw happen:

  • With the score at 1-1, Celtic score in the 88th minute to go top
  • In the 97th minute, the Hearts keeper is up for a corner, Celtic break and score in the open goal to make it 3-1
  • Celtic fans invade the pitch, players on both sides are waiting for them to be cleared so they can kick off after the goal
  • After a couple of mins, ref appears to go 'well fuck it, there's so many fans on the pitch that I might as well just call it full time'
If that is what happened, what sort of message does that send to fans? That they can basically end any match in injury time if they want to by invading the pitch? Absolutely disgusting. Ref should abandon the game and have it played again next week, that would teach them a lesson.
 
I think Martin O'Neil is a bit of a prick, and not a great technical coach, but he has some indefinable quality. Taking a shit Celtic team, and making them 15 points better than any other team in the league, to win the championship on the last day of the season is crazy stuff.

I feel a little sorry for Hearts.
 
Is anyone watching this? Here is what I believe I just saw happen:

  • With the score at 1-1, Celtic score in the 88th minute to go top
  • In the 97th minute, the Hearts keeper is up for a corner, Celtic break and score in the open goal to make it 3-1
  • Celtic fans invade the pitch, players on both sides are waiting for them to be cleared so they can kick off after the goal
  • After a couple of mins, ref appears to go 'well fuck it, there's so many fans on the pitch that I might as well just call it full time'
If that is what happened, what sort of message does that send to fans? That they can basically end any match in injury time if they want to by invading the pitch? Absolutely disgusting. Ref should abandon the game and have it played again next week, that would teach them a lesson.
Didn't a similar thing happen last week in Prague? That one was suspended, although it was the losing team's fans at fault.
 
O’Neill is an average coach, nothing special like Celtic Football Club in general. I think Hearts deserve credit for how Tony Bloom has set them up in such a short time this season - bodes well for next season and something to build on. Same with Motherwell, building a decent team to challenge the two party dominance.

Makes next season interesting and let the green and white orks in Glasgow have their asterisk title. You can have Rod, he’s an embarrassment, same with Chris Sutton and his embarrassingly biased commentating. Him and Alan Smith should be left out of TV and radio, makes me want to kill myself.
 
'Hearts Hearts are falling apart again'
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I think Martin O'Neil is a bit of a prick, and not a great technical coach, but he has some indefinable quality. Taking a shit Celtic team, and making them 15 points better than any other team in the league, to win the championship on the last day of the season is crazy stuff.

I feel a little sorry for Hearts.

It's not that amazing, they did win the last four titles and the squad is pretty much the same.

The refs and SFA did all they could to help them out as well, clearly only an OF club is allowed to win the SPL.

What a joke of a league.
 
Didn't a similar thing happen last week in Prague? That one was suspended, although it was the losing team's fans at fault.
So it sounds like they've got it wrong on both occasions - if the losing team's fans come on the pitch, end the match so they have no chance to come back. If the winning team's fans do it, have the whole match replayed from 0-0. Honestly, it sickened me watching that (and I don't normally follow Scottish football, so it's not sour grapes or anything like that - it's just the thought that fans can totally control when the match is finished - disgusting).
 
'Hearts Hearts are falling apart again'
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Mm….I well think the fact a crap Celtic team can win the Scottish league says more about the rest of the teams than them! Hearts were done by two scandalous decisions one last Saturday one on Wednesday there’s no getting away from the fact……..sadly Aberdeen, Hibs especially for obvious reasons, Motherwell, Dundee Utd will take great delight in Hearts falling short which is part of supporting a team but the bigger picture Scottish football will stay stagnant it won’t change if there’s not a change in winning teams! Teams I’ve mentioned if it were them the decisions would have been made against them too……no wonder nobody takes Scottish football seriously
 
I think Martin O'Neil is a bit of a prick, and not a great technical coach, but he has some indefinable quality. Taking a shit Celtic team, and making them 15 points better than any other team in the league, to win the championship on the last day of the season is crazy stuff.

I feel a little sorry for Hearts.
I don’t think O’Neill is a great manager. But I think he’s a great manager at that club. He just seems to connect to Celtic and their fan base in a way many can’t. I don’t know why, he’s not even Scottish but he just gets them going like nobody else.
 
Didn't a similar thing happen last week in Prague? That one was suspended, although it was the losing team's fans at fault.
No.

In Prague it was the winning teams fans that came on the pitch. In fact they were celebrating that they were about to win the title. They were winning 3-2 with 4 mins to go.

Game got awarded 3-0 to the team that were losing, and their Championship celebrations had to be saved for another day.

Very similar to what happened today, except maybe 30 seconds left, and 2 goal advantage.
I can’t see the SFA doing anything about it, but if they were consistent with their Czechia counterparts Hearts would be awarded a 3-0 win, but that is 2 games in 3 days that have prematurely ended due to Celtic fans invading the pitch.
 
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