{"id":519792,"date":"2025-10-22T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519792\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:13:14","slug":"willie-miller-says-he-could-make-derek-mcinnes-really-angry-with-hearts-and-celtic-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519792\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Miller says he could make Derek McInnes ‘really angry’ with Hearts and Celtic claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a huge, huge week for Celtic and Brendan Rodgers. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hearts are leading the charge at the top of the Premiership table<\/a>, as Derek McInnes\u2019<\/a> side have a five-point lead over Celtic<\/a> ahead of their meeting at Tynecastle on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Before Celtic can even think about that top-of-the-table clash, it\u2019s the small matter of dealing with the Europa League on Thursday evening, and the visit of Sturm Graz. <\/p>\n

Put the first win on the board in Europe, and then the champions of Scotland<\/a> can concentrate on Hearts, as Willie Miller<\/a> is making sure not to title the game in a certain way. <\/p>\n

\"DerekPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesWillie Miller on making Derek McInnes \u2018really angry\u2019 ahead of Hearts vs Celtic<\/p>\n

Hearts have only dropped points in one game this season, whilst Celtic were beaten at Dundee<\/a> over the weekend, and look nowhere near their best. <\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland<\/a>, Miller stated that he could call the game a \u2018title decider\u2019, but thinks it would make McInnes \u2018really angry.\u2019<\/p>\n

Miller noted that he knows the Hearts boss really well, and he will continue to play down this game and a title charge, even if his team win. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat one at Tynecastle will just be a huge one,\u201d said Miller. \u201cAll eyes will be on that game. I\u2019m not going to call it \u2018a title decider.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cWe could call it and make Derek McInnes really angry, couldn\u2019t we? But we aren\u2019t going to call it that. From a Hearts\u2019 point of view, they won\u2019t be able to hide it if they beat Celtic. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe eyebrows go down (from McInnes about the title race) or somebody puts that to him, so I know Derek very well, and he has done a magnificent job. That\u2019s a huge game, even this early in the season. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue then is, how do Hearts deal with it? How do they deal with the pressure of people talking about them as serious title challengers? <\/p>\n

\u201cRangers are as well, you aren\u2019t looking at them to get close. I know people will say that they will eventually sort it out, and they probably will. But how long is it going to take?\u201d<\/p>\n

Celtic fans won\u2019t see it this way because they just want Rodgers to put title number 56 on the table. <\/p>\n

But when you look at it without Celtic colours on, then Miller thinks this is a \u2018really exciting\u2019 time for Scottish football.<\/p>\n

Celtic have won 13 out of the last 14 titles<\/a>, and for the first time in a long time, it feels like something different is happening. <\/p>\n

\u201cScottish football is really exciting,\u201d added Miller. \u201cI think the emergence of Hearts has been brilliant for the game. They will be tested. Celtic will be tested for that game at Tynecastle. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then, if Hearts come out as winners, it\u2019s a whole new ball game for them to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a huge, huge week for Celtic and Brendan Rodgers. Hearts are leading the charge at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[71562,94,79,16,15,169185],"class_list":{"0":"post-519792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-derek-mcinnes","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-willie-miller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115418235879160855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}