Rampant Hearts power eight points clear of Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premiership to bolster their title credentials and deepen the malaise around Brendan Rodgers side.

The 2025/26 Scottish Premiership season has started in electric fashion, with both Celtic and Rangers a long way off the pace behind unlikely leaders Hearts.

Kyziridis welcomed his son into the world just four days before gunning down Celtic to birth a genuine title challenge

Martin O’Neill questioned Celtic’s physicality and talked up Hearts’ title chances hours before agreeing to return to Parkhead to take charge, along with Shaun Maloney.

Hearts and Celtic clash in a blockbuster Scottish Premiership encounter on Sunday at Tynecastle Park, with the league leaders hosting the reigning champions in what could be a defining moment in the

Image: Hearts beat Celtic 3-1 to extend their lead at the top of the Premiership table to eight points Hearts showed they might just be title contenders as they stunned Celtic to move eight points clear at the top of the Premiership. The Jambos were ...

Joe: Rodgers' position must now be in serious jeopardy. Forget the transfer window, Celtic are consistently losing to clubs with a fraction of the resources they have. The standard of play is truly awful and lack of goals is embarrassing. That sits with the manager.

Celtic arrive knowing exactly what is at stake, win and the gap closes to two points, lose and Hearts open up an eight-point lead that gives them room for the slips and stumbles that winter inevitably brings.

Hearts are on a mission to become the first team outside of Celtic and Rangers to win the Scottish Premiership title since 1985. And as they welcome Celtic to Tynecastle on Sunday, they find