Graeme Souness questions whether Celtic have the 'b*******' for title fight after Rangers role reversal

Graeme Souness has questioned whether or not Celtic have the ‘bollocks’ to go all the way in this season’s title fight.

The former Rangers boss believes the temperament of the champions might be suspect after they blew the chance to climb back to the top of the table with a defeat at Tynecastle on Sunday - less than 24 hours after their Ibrox rivals had lost at home to Motherwell. And he suspects Brendan Rodgers and his players might be wilting under the strain of trying to play catch-up after spending most of the season leading from the front.

Souness said: “It’s all about how you deal with it - and Rangers have dealt with it. Now it’s Celtic’s turn to deal with it. Let’s see how they deal with it. They’ll be getting the focus. You guys will be writing some things that are not terribly complimentary, people on radio will be saying things. Pundits on television will be saying things.

“How will they deal with it? I don’t want to be doing Mr Rodgers’ team talk for him, but it is how they deal with it. You have to be a big player to play for the Old Firm. You have to have big b*******.”

Souness added: “It was a big weekend, an unusual weekend with both losing. But what I would say is that Celtic saw the Rangers result on the Saturday and they would have been right up for Sunday’s game. And they have not done it, they have lost.

“OK, they got a player sent off, but they have lost. That was a double whammy for them. They saw their biggest rivals had lost and they couldn’t capitalise on it.

“If there was a game where they had to be bang at it it would have been at Tynecastle on Sunday and they haven’t done it for whatever reason.

“But there is still a lot of football, both will drop points. There are nine games left and