The Cynic Weekly – 14.05.2026
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
4.9 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Gall is joined by Stuart and Barry as Celtic’s dramatic title push heads into a final-day showdown with Hearts at Celtic Park.
The panel react to the chaotic late win over Motherwell and the fallout from another huge VAR decision. There’s discussion around the media reaction, conspiracy claims from pundits and whether Celtic’s resilience under pressure is finally carrying them over the line.
Key discussion points:
• The dramatic late win away to Motherwell
• The VAR controversy and reaction across Scottish football
• Media narratives, conspiracy claims, and pundit meltdown
• Why Celtic keep leaving it late this season
• Hearts, pressure, and the psychology of the final day
• Celtic’s resilience through a chaotic campaign
• Why Saturday now feels like a cup final for the title
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly on Thursday the 14th of May 2026. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm your host, Christopher Gallagher, and yeah, we're going to talk about the Celtic game at |
| 0:35.6 | Mother Will yesterday, just the game, nothing else really, not much else to talk about the Celtic game at Motherwell yesterday. Just the game. Nothing else really. |
| 0:38.9 | Not much else to talk about really. |
| 0:41.3 | But we'll pick it all up with |
| 0:43.3 | one of the best panels. |
| 0:45.1 | Stuart Duggan's here. Stuart, hello. How are you, sir? |
| 0:47.5 | I'm tired, Chris. |
| 0:49.4 | We're nearly there. |
| 0:51.3 | I thought it's taking out me. It's taken out me. |
| 0:52.6 | Oh, God. But good, obviously incredibly positive |
| 0:56.2 | week and incredibly exciting weekend to come, but it doesn't have to take it out you. It doesn't |
| 1:03.3 | have. Couldn't agree more. We're also joined by the one the only Barry Galaher. Hello Barry, how are you, |
| 1:09.1 | sir? I'm good, thank you. Obviously, I waited after last night. I actually feel that I'm a... I feel like I drank 100 pints last night when... Love that. I haven't drank in a long time, so... But yeah, just as Stuart was talking there, I was thinking back to last week and what we would have given then to be in this position then. |
| 1:28.3 | So obviously there's a lot of context. |
| 1:30.3 | There's the meltdowns being as crazy as you'd imagine it could have been. |
| 1:35.3 | But yeah, just delighted to have given ourselves this chance and that's all we can ask for at this stage really. |
| 1:41.3 | We sat here last week and we did run through scenarios. Excuse me. We now know what the |
| 1:46.0 | final scenario is going to be. |
| 1:48.3 | The final challenge |
| 1:49.5 | is going to be obviously Celtic |
| 1:51.7 | versus hearts. A win takes |
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