Martin O’Neill has slammed Graeme Souness over being delusional in his views of the Glasgow Derby.
Despite Celtic’s long run of success in the fixture, highlighted by Sunday’s 3-0 victory Souness was adamant that there was no major difference between the two clubs with the most recent fixture conforming that Brendan Rodgers has better strikers.
Those comments were made on TalkSPORT on Monday morning but O’Neill was a guest of Jim White and Simon Jordan this morning and brought some sanity and reasoning to the discussion.
Souness seems to share a love of dubious stats with Phil Clement but putting that to the side O’Neill brought some balance with Jordan in agreement at the complete trashing of the case put forward by Souness three days earlier.
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O’Neill was asked if success is cyclical, that the momentum currently with Celtic could swing the other and didn’t miss with his reply:
It may well do, in another 15 years time or something like that. But I had exactly this conversation with Graeme exactly a week ago, we were doing something up in Glasgow.
Graeme was a fantastic footballer, put that to one side but he is deluding himself, absolutely, ‘cos there is a gap, a chasm between them.
Yes, in the game itself, over a 90 minute period, they might actually get close and if you are only beaten by one or two nil then you can make all sorts of thoughts about it in terms of that was actually close but actually that game (Sunday) wasn’t close at all. Celtic were far far better.
The idea that that is only because Rangers spent less money, the demise of Rangers for the last number of years- if there is such a thing as a demise and then it continues.
O’Neill was in charge of Celtic from 2000 to 2005, winning three SPL titles and losing the other two on the final day of the season.
In contrast Celtic have now won 12 of the last 13 SPFL titles with eight of them involving the club from Ibrox who took the 2020/21 title when fans were locked out of stadiums.
Brendan Rodgers has won nine out of 10 domestic trophies over two stints as Celtic boss, if the hoops beat Hearts in their next outing they will go eight points ahead of Phil Clement’s side before they take on Dundee United at Tannadice the following day.
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by Jas
Sourpuss talked about Sevco having 4 shots on target, well one of them was offside, it’s a wee trick him and Smith spouted all the time at R*****s.