Celtic defender Alistair Johnston has made it clear that his side are too focused on their own Treble pursuit to be concerned with the chaos across the city at Rangers.
Following Philippe Clement’s departure after their 2-0 defeat to St Mirren, Rangers have been thrown into chaos with Barry Ferguson stepping in as interim manager.
He’ll have the staunchest of staunch coaches alongside him, with Neil McCann, Billy Dodds and Allan McGregor joining the Ibrox Hall of Famer. Issame Charai remains in his role.
But Johnston insists Celtic won’t be distracted by what’s happening at Ibrox.
The Canadian full-back stressed the importance of tunnel vision, saying: [RecordSport]
“For us, it’s just more of what we’ve been doing. We’re very good at keeping things in-house, not listening to outside noise, not caring really what’s going on around the world, around the league. We’ve really just got to focus on ourselves. And at the end of the day, if we take care of business and we play our football, we will win the things that we want to win.
“So that’s kind of our focus – just taking it day by day, match by match. You put that Hibs one behind you and now, look, it’s another match right away, Aberdeen at home, another good test. Let’s go out there. How can we impose ourselves on them? Find a way to get a big result at home, get ourselves back on track, and then go from there.
“So again, we’re not really focused on the table. We’re not really focused on exactly how many matches are left. We know that we’re into that final stretch. We want to be in a really good place so that when the sun finally comes out, that we’re really kicking into another gear and sprinting through that finish line.”
Celtic remain 13 points clear at the top, with 11 games left, and with the season reaching its business end, Johnston and his teammates are fully locked in on securing another historic domestic clean sweep.
They’re looking to get back to winning ways against Aberdeen on Tuesday night, who have won their last three.
The Hoops fell to defeat at Easter Road on Saturday but put in a promising second-half display.
Daizen Maeda thought he got the Hoops level, until VAR controversially intervened and chalked the goal off.
Hopefully, there’s no VAR drama as Celtic face Aberdeen.
