Scottish football Oscars as the leading Celtic role backed up by supporting cast with cinch sequel in the works

It may be Celtic in the leading role, but the supporting cast of Scottish football deserve recognition as well.

The glitz and glam of the Oscars will be on full display in Hollywood tonight, but give us shorts and socks over tuxes and frocks any day of the week. The Premiership is being upstaged by the Scottish Cup this weekend, but so far only Celtic have followed the script by beating Hearts after Inverness CT provided a Friday night twist to dump Kilmarnock.

The cinch is always box office though. It may not be packed with A-listers or be as visually enticing as its bigger budget rivals, but the storylines and dialogue are second to none. There’s a new villain every week depending on your perspective and time in the director’s chair is limited if you oversee too many successive flops or not enough entertainment for demanding audiences who are desperate to see a hit featuring their favourite stars.

Record Sport reveals our own winners in each category form the past year in Scottish football.

As cup shocks go, Darvel’s win over Aberdeen will be hard to beat. It was going to take something special to overshadow Brora dumping Hearts out a couple of years ago, but Jim Goodwin’s team fluffed their lines massively in Ayrshire when they went down 1-0 to the West of Scotland Premier Division outfit.

They may be big spenders at their own level, but that’s no excuse for the dismal Dons who will have to live with this one until eventually, someone else is the victim of a Scottish Cup horror.

He has another gong in the bag after the Viaplay Cup final win over Rangers, and now Ange Postecoglou has a Treble in his sights. Nine points clear at the top of the table, his Celtic stars are on course for a blockbuster season.

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