A compendium of corking stats

Andrew Smiths Cup final stats bonanza

It isn’t difficult to comprehend why these times feel as sweet as honey with added sugar for the Celtic faithful. Not when you crunch the numbers behind Saturday’s Scottish Cup triumph, which bagged another double for the club.

• Celtic are now the only Scottish club to have won 118 honours outright.

• No fewer than 40 trophies have been claimed by Celtic in the 2000s. The biggest such haul for any club in world football.

• Until this season, no team from within these borders  had won 12 titles in only 13 years or six Scottish Cups in only eight years. Celtic’s redrawing of the parameters over what had previously seemed possible in this sporting environment continues apace.

• Medal collections in Celtic’s annals rarely take on the complexion of their two current greats James Forrest and captain Callum McGregor. They now boast no fewer than 46 between them, with Forrest on 24 and McGregor the proud possessor of 22. 

• Celtic are the doubles kings of football. Unparalleled in the game is their new 21 total (eight of these converted to a global-record number of trebles). No fewer than 10 were snared in the past 23 years.

•  Celtic have been pitted against rivals taking the Rangers name 103 times in this century. In the club winning 54 of these meetings - with 15 drawn -  no longer can followers of the Ibrox club even lay claim to supremacy within the derby dust-ups. Wikipedia sets out the win totals for the fixture across major competitions as now 169 each.