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The Football Show · 12 October 2026
Peter Martin wonders if there could be a rift between the Celtic manager Martin O'Neill and Cameron Carter-Vickers, or if it is yet another injury that has sidelined the centre-half. Alex Rae reckons European games will take their toll on Celtic and Hearts. Tam McManus believes the honeymoon is over for Alfred Johansson at Motherwell.
"I just felt they've left Martin exposed." Peter Martin, Tam McManus and Alex Rae on the weekend in the Scottish Premiership: Motherwell 0-2 Celtic and Benfica next, Rangers 3-1 Kilmarnock, Hearts 5-0 St Mirren and the title race, Aberdeen 0-1 St Johnstone and the pressure on Stephen Robinson, Dundee United 1-0 Hibs and Falkirk 1-2 Dundee. Live, Monday 12 October 2026.
Celtic: back on top, but Benfica on Thursday
Celtic won comfortably at Fir Park (Durán, Nygren) to go back above Rangers, who went top on Saturday. Tam on Kasper Høgh: "I don't think he's scored for Celtic since the hat-trick." And with Benfica in Lisbon on Thursday: "If they play with that back four, they're going to get ripped." Were Cameron Carter-Vickers and Liam Scales rested? And Peter on the board: "They've left him wide open to paper over the cracks of their complete ineptitude."
Can Hearts mount a serious title challenge?
Peter was at Tynecastle for the 5-0 win over St Mirren: "They were good." Calvin Miller and Josh McPake on the flanks, Claudio Braga "going from strength to strength", then Nordsjaelland on Thursday and Celtic at Parkhead next weekend.
Also: Ryan Naderi's double and Derek McInnes's second-half "post-mortem", Neil McCann's Kilmarnock "can't defend", the Jack Milne penalty at Pittodrie, Hibs two points off the bottom under Marink Reedijk, Steven Pressley's Dundee winning at Falkirk.
Scottish Premiership Weekend Results:
Motherwell 0 Celtic 2,
Aberdeen 0 St. Johnstone 1,
Dundee United 1 Hibernian 0,
Falkirk 1 Dundee 2,
Heart of Midlothian 5 St. Mirren 0,
Rangers 3 Kilmarnock 1,
The Football Show Highlights:
0:00 Welcome: Tam McManus and Alex Rae, and Cameron Commercials
0:50 Coming up: Rangers and Celtic swap places at the top
1:36 The Premiership table after eight games
1:57 Motherwell 0-2 Celtic: "a wee bit early days"
3:10 Durán, Nygren and Celtic's pattern of play
3:53 Tounekti and Celtic's wide players
5:01 Jota's return lifts the Celtic support
5:44 Kasper Høgh and a striker's barren spell
7:27 The kill zone: why Celtic's strikers must stay in the box
11:39 Motherwell: "It's a hard watch, Peter"
13:17 Said and Maswanhise left on the bench
15:19 Seb Palmer-Houlden and Motherwell without the ball
18:55 Benfica next: "20 years" with no ambition in Europe
19:43 Carter-Vickers and Scales: rested, or the "random tactics" fallout?
21:38 Peter at Tynecastle, and who backed Hearts last season
22:33 Rangers 3-1 Kilmarnock: Ryan Naderi's double
24:09 Kelsy's deflected goal, Gassama, Minsu Kim and Penrice
26:36 Neil McCann's Kilmarnock "can't defend"
29:00 The top three, then "throw a blanket over" the other eight
29:39 No Europe: a huge advantage for Rangers?
31:12 Kilmarnock bottom: 18 goals conceded in eight games
32:13 Hearts 5-0 St Mirren: "They were good"
34:17 January: will Hearts splash out? McInnes won't
35:06 St Mirren too expansive at Tynecastle
35:54 Alex Rae: Peter Reid, 105 points and 4-0 at Stamford Bridge
36:33 Who will sit in against Celtic and Rangers?
39:16 Hearts' new style, and Celtic Park next
40:31 Calvin Miller, McPake and Celtic's recruitment
41:57 St Mirren: four league defeats in a row
42:43 Aberdeen 0-1 St Johnstone: Stephen Robinson under fire
46:04 Give managers time: Derek McInnes and Martin O'Neill
46:35 "They've left Martin exposed": Peter on the Celtic board
47:10 Robinson's semi-final: "my third one in six months"
48:11 St Johnstone fifth, and Josh Fowler
49:03 Dundee United 1-0 Hibs: Marink Reedijk needs time
50:27 Can a new manager impose his style straight away?
51:16 Dundee United: Jim Goodwin's more adventurous shape
52:33 Falkirk 1-2 Dundee: Steven Pressley's injury list
53:42 Worries for Falkirk, St Mirren and Kilmarnock
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56:44 Man City v Liverpool: "the referee ruined it"
57:34 Your comments: Gazza, Falkirk and Alex Rae merch
59:27 Three games in a day, and what's on the telly
1:01:28 Sign-off: what colour will Tam's hair be?
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