Celtic’s Scottish Cup win against Rangers yesterday takes the Parkhead club’s trophy haul to the 1118th in their history.
Adam Idah’s late, late goal sparked scenes of jubilation as the Hampden win asserts Celtic’s dominance in Scotland and consigns Rangers to a summer of pain as the Ibrox club surrendered their grip on a possible treble.
Despite the media narrative surrounding Celtic, Rodgers guided the Parkhead club to a league and cup double to follow up on last season’s record-breaking eighth domestic treble.
And as the parties continued all over the world, Tony Cascarino made a claim about Celtic and world football after watching his old club beat Rangers at Hampden.
Cascarino: World football’s ‘bigger plan’ for Celtic
With the Champions League taking on a new format next season to try to revamp and reinject some much-needed vibrancy in the competition, Cascarino believes that the game has a plan for Celtic because its a huge club playing in a small league.
Cascarino said [talkSPORT], “It’s always, as far as I can remember, been like that [Celtic and Rangers dominating].
“I joined Celtic in 1991/92 season and it was always Rangers that dominated. I think they’d one nine on the spin and over that period.
“And it was what we’re seeing now, what Celtic are doing. I mean, their records aren’t they? When you look at what they won in SPFLs and League Cups and Scottish Cups, they’re pretty much even all the way.
“So I don’t see it as too big of a deal. These are the two major clubs. Has the world of football got a bigger plan for them, these two clubs, on the way?
“I’m sure that’ll happen further down the line. I think football will have to change to some level because these two teams are dwarfed by finance and playing European football than certainly Premier League clubs and other leagues in European football.”
There has been talk of Celtic joining the English Premier League for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately (or not as the case may be for some Celtic fans), I don’t think that will happen any time soon.
Plans for an Atlantic League where teams from the likes of Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Ireland competed for places in a new-look tiered league structure were also mooted back in 2021.
The idea was that promotion to the league would be determined on placings in the domestic league with teams dropping back into their home countries league through relegations places.
Celtic refused to take part in those talks which pretty much left the idea dead in the water.
Does world football have a plan for Celtic in the near future? Your guess is as good as mine but you do have to wonder if there is an appetite among the Celtic fans to move out of the Scottish game for good.