{"id":377386,"date":"2025-12-29T03:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377386\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:53:09","slug":"i-have-it-on-good-authority-celtic-will-lose-to-motherwell-and-my-source-is-impeccably-placed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377386\/","title":{"rendered":"I have it on good authority Celtic will lose to Motherwell and my source is impeccably placed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugh Keevins revealed what Motherwell player Andy Halliday has told him ahead of the champions trip to Fir Park on Tuesday<\/p>\n

10:00, 28 Dec 2025Updated 19:36, 28 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy <\/p>\n

I have it on very good authority that Motherwell will beat Celtic at Fir Park on Tuesday night and further sabotage Wilfried Nancy<\/a>\u2019s hopes of winning the Premiership title.<\/p>\n

While, at the same time, propelling Hearts<\/a> closer to the day when they can officially remove the second word from the phrase \u2018champions elect\u2019.<\/p>\n

My source of information is my friend and radio colleague Andy Halliday<\/a>, who happens to be a Motherwell player and was at Hearts before his move to Lanarkshire.<\/p>\n

Andy also played for Rangers, which will make his evidence inadmissable for those who regard him as a hostile witness under the Old Firm\u2019s unique adaptation of jurisprudence.<\/p>\n

Andy\u2019s opinion is that Motherwell\u2019s style of play will suit them against Celtic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nancy strikes me as an idealist in a realist\u2019s world. His methodology, as he calls it, could not be said to be based on defensive solidity.<\/p>\n

Wilfried is more about spreadsheets than clean sheets.<\/p>\n

The manager\u2019s difficulty going forward is that Hearts can keep the ball out of the net at one end and have goal-scoring defenders at the other end of the park into the bargain.<\/p>\n

Boss Derek McInnes can mock the view that Hearts can only throw away this title, but that\u2019s how it looks from where I\u2019m standing, despite Saturday’s defeat at Easter Road.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got, in opposition to him, a manager at Celtic who was the club\u2019s first thought but can look more like a last resort at times.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also up against a man at Ibrox, Danny Rohl, who was Rangers\u2019 third choice after Steven Gerrard and Kevin Muscat said they had other things to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the Old Firm are toiling, you\u2019ve got to take full advantage.<\/p>\n

That time is now for Hearts. If they don\u2019t win the title it will be because they\u2019ve self-destructed. End of story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Keevins revealed what Motherwell player Andy Halliday has told him ahead of the champions trip to Fir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[203402,64,63,18282,129883,188850,596,188852,203403,8998,85,55068,178332],"class_list":["post-377386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-andy-halliday","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celtic-fc","tag-danny-rohl","tag-derek-mcinnes","tag-football","tag-hearts-fc","tag-motherwell-fc","tag-rangers-fc","tag-sports","tag-steven-gerrard","tag-wilfried-nancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}