"Image source, SNS St Mirren character, St Mirren cleverness, St Mirren glory - all there in black and white and in fantastic technicolour, too. A triumph for the ages, a day to rank with any in their history. Deserved and, on the final whistle, delirious. Untrammelled, uninhibited joy. In marching on towards a storied victory against all odds, St Mirren trampled Celtic underfoot. Out-thought them, tactically. Out-fought them, emotionally."
""Faith over fear" said their outstanding manager, Stephen Robinson, in the preamble. It might have sounded like a nice slogan then. Now, it sounds like something you might see on a tablet of stone. This was the believers versus the non-believers, the mentally strong versus the mentally frail, the ones without fear grabbing the occasion by the throat versus a red-hot favourite who caved in when the heat came on."
St Mirren produced untrammelled, uninhibited joy with a storied, against-the-odds victory that ranked among their greatest days. Tactical intelligence and emotional intensity allowed St Mirren to out-think and out-fight Celtic despite a gigantic financial disparity. Manager Stephen Robinson’s 'Faith over fear' mentality galvanized the team and inspired decisive half-time adjustments that neutered Celtic’s danger. Jonah Ayunga and his teammates exploited Celtic’s confusion with two second-half goals in a dozen minutes, leaving little realistic opportunity for a comeback. Celtic emerged as a diminished team with an uncertain manager, a furious support and a haunted board.
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