JIM INSISTS CELTIC ARE DESERVED CHAMPS
JIM GOODWIN believes Celtic have earned the right to be declared Scottish champions while Rangers and Hearts should quit moaning as they only have themselves to blame for failure.
The 38-year-old St Mirren boss has made his peace with the plan to draw a line under the Premiership campaign in the coming days and weeks.
It’s pretty simple to the Waterford man (inset) who made one appearance for Celtic at the start of his career.
Scottish football won’t be able to finish the season, whether government restrictions or the cost of playing behind closed doors, so there’s no other option but to declare.
And he also believes there’s no point in Rangers bleating about Celtic being made champions or Hearts wailing about relegation – because they both deserve to be losers.
Tuesday’s vote against Gers’ demand for an independent investigation in last month’s ballot to end the season has paved the way for the league to be wrapped up.
UEFA want to know the plan before the end of the month and with no end in sight to the pandemic crisis,
Goodwin accepts it’s time to deal with the inevitable.
The Saints gaffer said: “If you were to go on the current form and the way those two teams at the top are playing out then I don’t think anyone could deny Celtic are in a far better place than Rangers were.
“Rangers since the start of the year have dropped like 11 points more than what Celtic have so Celtic are deservedly out in front, they have been the better team this season.
“You can flip that on its head and look at the teams down near the bottom. Hearts have only won four games all season. We’ve got eight games left, Hearts would probably have had to win another four, possibly five games out of those eight.
“Of course it could have happened, none of us have a crystal ball.
“But it’s highly unlikely Rangers were going to catch Celtic and Hearts were going to have to have a hell of a turnaround in their current form to catch the teams above them.
“People might say it’s easy for me to say because we’re sitting ninth and are safe and none of it really involves us but I have to take a common sense approach to it.”