Keevins Reflects on Celtic's Dramatic Matches

On Tuesday night his old ticker started to beat a little faster, watching from his armchair the wing play of Djeidi Gassama and Oliver Antman brought a smile to Hugh Keevins cynical old face. Maybe this was it, the real deal.

Beating Viktoria Plzen was all the evidence that he needed to go off on one, again.

Mark Warburton and Joey Barton broke his heart almost a decade ago, Micky Beale and Todd Cantwell promised the earth then slipped back to obscurity.

After four matches in charge Phil Clement was apparently the Belgian Ange Postecoglou but when it came to the crunch he fell to pieces as Brendan Rodgers claimed another victim during his incredible tenure as Celtic manager.

Across the city managers tend to last around a year before the inevitable happens but despite watching the movie so often Keevins continually falls for the script out of Ibrox that this time things are different with Celtic on the brink of collapsing.

Celtic do have plenty of problems from signings to a manager in the final months of his contract but on that pesky green rectangle of grass they have utterly mastered the 13 year old Tribute Act founded by Charles Green to revive the toxic O** F***’rivalry’.

Gassama and Antman brought a glow to his old cheeks, all week he anticipated Dundee getting hammered, if that could be doubled up with a win for Aberdeen there would be a spring in Keevins step with the countdown underway to August 31 with a happy and glorious ending, the coronation of Russell Martin.

On Super Scoreboard on Friday night and Saturday afternoon anticipation was sky high.

Those thoughts inspired today’s Sunday Mail column, fortunately for the veteran broadcaster Super Scoreboard on Saturday finished up just 15 minutes into the game at Ibrox with Keevins crowing about an anticipated 4-0 for the midweek Euro heroes.

Absolute drivel. Keevins is a man that has made a career out being negative towards Celtic and for some strange logic Rangers are always world beaters, that’s the reason the SMSM hire him. His football knowledge is shockingly bad.
— Mitch (@Mitch111078) August 10, 2025

Lister to SSB yesterday and the absolute love for Rangers and negativity towards Celtic and see the narrative. @gordonduncan7 should challenge him but never does
— Mitch (@Mitch111078) August 10, 2025

Memo to daily record,retirement for shuggy is high on the agenda, Monday morning meeting, sweet jesus, give me strength 🤦🤦🤦 pic.twitter.com/fiMfYkx2hp
— Highlanders (@freddieflint19) August 10, 2025

Today in the Sunday Mail/Daily Record he laid out his dreams for Celtic implosion:

If Celtic fail to beat Aberdeen at Pittodrie today the curtain will go up on chaos.

If. That is why we play football matches, they decide outcomes, at 3pm today Celtic were sitting with six points from two matches, four more than the club bankrolled by the ‘San Francisco 49ers’.

Celtic The Musical is scheduled to begin in a Glasgow theatre next month. Celtic The Pantomime will open immediately if points are dropped this afternoon.

Points weren’t dropped, Celtic The Musical is still scheduled for next month when circulation of the Sunday Mail will be down to around 35,000. In June it was selling an average of 37,901, down 19% year on year. Celtic increased their lead over Russell Martin’s sorry mob over the weekend, two games in and the gap is already four points, last season after 38 matches the gap was 17 points.

It will signal an inauspicious start to a sequence of games that includes two Champions League qualifiers and an Old Firm derby at Ibrox before the end of August.

Whatever happens between now and the end of the month Celtic will be the highest placed Glasgow team in the SPFL Premiership.

No guarantees can be given about the outcome against the Dons, in Europe or against the team across the road on the other side of the city.

If there were guarantees bookmakers wouldn’t offer odds for three outcomes. Celtic beat Aberdeen comfortably today even with John Beaton as referee.

Football matches are decided on the pitch, between 22 players, not in the overactive imagination of a pensioner overdosing on Deludemol.

Turning his mind back to an actual match that did take place, last Sunday’s 1-0 win over St Mirren, Keevins wrote:

And when a goal finally arrived, Celtic then took the ball to the corner flag in time added-on in an attempt to get themselves over the line.

At home. Against St Mirren. On the day the league flag was unfurled.

A lot of the crowd missed the moment. They’d already left the ground disillusioned by what they were watching.

Not as disillusioned as one elderly pundit in a Clydebank studio who had been building up to pontificate on dropped points on flag day followed by a month of misery for Scotland’s most successful football club.

Keevins seems to hold on to the notion that Celtic are about to lose their next match followed by total collapse.

Since returning to Celtic as manager Brendan Rodgers has delivered four trophy wins out of six with just three meaningful league defeats in that time, last season’s title was won by 17 points alongside a 10 match run in the Champions League.

Rodgers has already seen off Micky Beale and Phil Clement in his second tenure, if trends continue Keevins will soon be investing his emotions on Martin’s successor or explaining to the Sunday Mail’s Army of Readers why Barry Ferguson is the perfect interim manager, again.