Hugh Keevins: It's all over with thirty-seven games to play

On page 132 of Sir Alex Ferguson's best seller "Leading" there is a section which begins, "Complacency is a disease, especially for individuals and organisations which have enjoyed success."

I have absolutely no doubt that Celtic's new manager, Brendan Rodgers, has read the old boy's case study in leadership on more than one occasion and will empathise with every word of it, particularly the bit about being lulled into a false sense of security.

Celtic's win at Tynecastle on Sunday was a thrilling example of how it's impossible to take anything for granted and why it's best to succeed by the sweat of your own brow rather than work on the assumption that you're a shoo-in no matter what.

If that philosophy was good enough to win Sir Alex 38 trophies at Old Trafford, including 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cups and two Champions Leagues then I'm certain it's good enough for Brendan.

And he'd be the first to agree that was the case.

Which is why he'll laugh at those supporters of his own club who want to dismiss the rest of the opposition to Celtic in the SPFL after just one game, and with 111 points still to be played for.

But it's a great laugh for the rest of us while the manager puts on his sensible head and gets on with the job of clearing up Ronny Deila's mess.

The new season is a hoot and we've only just begun.

It should have started with a play on the words that normally prepare passengers for take-off, "Please ensure your safety belt is tightly fastened and all smiles have been extinguished."

The fact of the matter is that we've embarked on what promises to be the most event-filled season for years but the first thing to remember is that none of us are supposed to enjoy it.

It is already an offence to say that anybody might prevent Celtic from reaching their sixth, successive title and, at the same time, a personal delight to be involved in a Superscoreboard phone-in which has the potential for reaching previously uncharted heights of eccentricity.

Trust me, Brendan would have been the first to disagree with the Celtic supporter who used Saturday night's programme to say that he wanted the championship trophy to be presented to his club there and then.

But it would have given him a wonderful insight into the environment that is now his to deal with.

A matter of days after having to verbally chastise the Celtic fans for getting the players on edge with their response to the tight game against Astana in the Champions League qualifiers, here was Brendan listening to a supporter declaring that a draw for Rangers at home to Hamilton Accies presented sufficient grounds for the premature anulment of the competition and the presentation of the trophy to Celtic.

Once again, it's as well the manager seems like the level headed type who is able to turn a deaf ear to the white noise that comes from the more excitable element within his club's support.

The ones who are able to erase from their memories the defeat against Lincoln Red Imps in Gibraltar while confidently stating that Happoel Be'er Sheva, of Israel, offer no impediment to Celtic reaching the group stages of the Champions League.

Complacency, disease etc, etc.

But don't let me be the one to discourage fans, no matter how excitable, irrational or otherwise detached from reality, from calling into the programme.

I knew it would be like this when Celtic and Rangers were re-united in their loveless marriage of inconvenience after a separation lasting too many years to be good for the game. And they are now the only game in town.

Hearts gave Celtic a real run for their money at Tynecastle, as they will do when Rangers go to play there. Aberdeen will also be a hurdle that periodically presents difficulties at Pittodrie and in Glasgow.

But on the eighth day of August, after the live coverage of the game at Tynecastle, I heard my old Radio Clyde colleague, now Sky Television presenter, David Tanner ask Celtic's manager about the league game against Rangers on the tenth day of September.

Even though Celtic have a League Cup tie, two Champions League qualifiers and several Premiership matches to play before the return of the original Glasgow derby.

And the question was entitled to be asked because that is all a lot of people on either side of the great divide care about. Otherwise they wouldn't be this obsessed with each other, would they?

The air is crackling and dogs are howling at the moon. My dad's bigger than your dad. And we've had just one weekend of championship football.

But it's high octane banter for those who're dedicated to that type of thing. Brendan and Mark Warburton will be too busy getting on with their work to be bothered with any of it.

They've got enough injury worries to contend with already to fall victim to the disease of complacency. They will say nothing about who's won what and get on with the job of taking life on a game by game basis.

As for the rest of you, I'm listening. What's your point?