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Adidas wove tartan into Celtic's hoops, and the Scottish cloth witnessed the maddest season Scottish football had seen in forty years. The collapse started early: Champions League elimination by Kairat Almaty, Brendan Rodgers at open war with the board over transfers and resigning in October, Martin O'Neill summoned at 73 to steady the ship, the lightning and disastrous thirty one day reign of Wilfried Nancy that embarrassed half of Glasgow, and O'Neill's definitive return in January. Out east, Derek McInnes's Hearts were producing the best campaign by a non Old Firm club in decades and reached the final day dreaming of a first title since 1960. At Celtic Park, on 16 May 2026, Celtic beat them 3-1 to seal a fifth consecutive championship and the 56th Scottish title in their history, breaking the tie with Rangers once and for all and making the green half of Glasgow the country's outright record holders. The Scottish Cup completed the double, and O'Neill, the man of the 103 point shirt of 2001/02, wrote twenty five years later an epilogue nobody had predicted. Chaos rarely ends in celebration. This one did.

Here at Hoopster the tartan in these hoops tells the maddest season Glasgow has seen in decades: three managers, a club at war with itself and, even so, the title on the final day. Some houses never lose the habit of winning, not even in crisis.