'Painful truth' laid bare at Celtic ahead of daunting run

The next six games will go a long way to answering the question that some supporters around Parkhead have been pondering these past few weeks: is Martin O'Neill slowly turning Celtic into the real deal? With the greatest respect to the three teams concerned, last-gasp victories over Dundee, Livingston and Kilmarnock won't cut it if Celtic are serious about making further inroads on the three fronts they're currently fighting. You can't beat it for drama, certainly, and yet the painful truth which even those viewing things through green and white tinted spectacles can't fail to see clearly, is that Celtic only just scraped by three of the Premiership's bottom four teams.