No Need To Panic Says Robson

Celtic’s Barry Robson insists it is "not all doom and gloom" at Parkhead despite losing their '10 years without a loss at Tannadice' record.  While the players may be able to shrug off the defeat, the Celtic fans were not pleased with recent results that showed only two wins out of 10 competitive games.  The fact that the visitors had taken the lead from the spot in the 71st minute only to lose two goals in the last 10 minutes was hard to take. While Celtic passed up the chance to move back above Rangers to the top of the SPL, United moved sit on equal points with third-placed Hibs and three behind Rangers. The travelling fans booed their side off the park for the second game in succession - their 3-3 draw against bottom side Falkirk in their last outing eliciting similar discontent - but Robson appealed for calm

He said: "Fans pay a lot of money to come and watch us but I think we have put in some decent performances although maybe not against Falkirk in the last game. But Dundee United was always going to be a hard place to go to. When I was at United we almost beat Barcelona, so that's how hard it is to go there. We deserved to get something from the game, maybe even the three points but it is still positive at the club. The boys are all happy and on another day, we could have won two or three nil. So it's not all doom and gloom. We are ready for the next game and we can't wait to go and win it. You don't win anything at this stage of the season. We came unstuck but we will keep going."

Celebrating United fans appeared to be a bit premature as they sang "we're going to win the league" as the teams left the field. Manager Craig Levein was reluctant to curtail the mounting enthusiasm at Tannadice. He said: "I don't want to dampen anyone's enthusiasm, that's not my job. We have a group of players that are going along quite nicely and the last thing they need is a tug on the reins from me. I will let them canter along and see what happens. I don't know if we can push (for the title) but I'm not gong down the dressing room to tell them that we can't. I feel that we have been improving against the Old Firm. We have managed to beat Rangers a few times and we have been very unfortunate a few times against Celtic. But the players have grown in confidence and they are not frightened of anybody. It doesn't mean that we are going to win every time, far from it, and we need to play better than we did today in the future to take points from either of the Old Firm."