Captain insists title a long way from over
SCOTT BROWN says that the title race is a long way from over as Celtic gear up to return to the scene of their only away defeat in the Premiership this season tonight.
The Celtic captain and his team-mates travel to the Tony Macaroni Arena to take on Livingston this evening, where they lost 2-0 back in October.
The champions have opened up a 12-point gap on closest rivals Rangers since the winter break, but Brown has sounded a note of caution ahead of the tricky trip to West Lothian.
“There’s still a long way to go,” Brown said of Neil Lennon’s side’s title bid. “We just look at it one game at a time.
“We have a huge game against Livingston first and after that we will look at the weekend.
“Livi will be hard. We’ve found it hard going there before. They will be physical, direct, they are in your face and don’t give you a second on the ball. It’s up to us to play around that and try to create chances and score goals. I think the last game we were a bit unlucky with Ryan [Christie] getting sent off.
“It was always going to be difficult after that, but we could have played a lot better, even with 10 men.”
Brown doesn’t accept that a ninth consecutive title is already in the bag despite the stuttering form of the Ibrox club in 2020 thus far.
“Nope [the league is not over],” he said. “Not at all. There’s a long way to go and football is a crazy world.
“We just need to make sure we keep ticking them off game by game and playing as well as we can.
“We’ve been miles ahead and miles behind and it’s changed. It happens in football. But we just focus on ourselves. We don’t talk about anyone else, we just look forward to whoever we are playing.”