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Football supporters, especially those who follow big clubs operating under the kind of expectancy levels there are at Celtic, are hardly renowned for their patience.

Yet there has been a school of thought expressed in various quarters this week that fans of the Scottish champions would be more than happy to wait another week to see their team clinch a seventh consecutive title win.

The potential scenario which has created such chatter, of course, is the one which would give Celtic the opportunity to wrap it up with the additional schadenfreude of beating their troubled Old Firm rivals Rangers at Parkhead on Sunday week.

That will only happen in the event Brendan Rodgers’ men are unable to take advantage of their first bite at the Premiership post-split cherry when they face Hibernian at Easter Road tomorrow.

The Celtic manager, however, insists he is in no mood to put the celebrations on hold.

“I am a Celtic fan too but I don’t want to wait,” said Rodgers. “I want to win it on Saturday. If we can do it, great. It will be a tough game for us against Hibs, it’s probably the most difficult place we could go to win it.

“But if it doesn’t happen on Saturday, it is ok. We then go to the next game and if not that one, the next game again. The most important thing is to win the title and we want to win it as soon as we can.”

The Celtic training centre at Lennoxtown has been a buoyant environment for Rodgers and his players over the past few days as they have basked in the feelgood factor around

“Iamacelticfantoo but I don’t want to wait.iwanttowinit on Saturday. If we can do it, great. But if it doesn’t happen on Saturday, it is ok” “We can’t just stick the sombreros on… there are hard games leading into the cup final”

BRENDAN RODGERS