McInnes ready for Hearts to flip script on Celtic
Derek McInnes is confident Hearts can tear up the script one more time this season to claim the Scottish Premiership title at Celtic Park on Saturday.
Hearts know it will be champion for the first time since 1959-1960 if it avoids defeat against Celtic, which will overtake its Edinburgh rival and retain its title if it is victorious.
If it gets over the line, Hearts will become the first non-Old Firm side to be crowned champion of Scotland since Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen in 1984-1985, ending a run of 40 successive titles won by either Celtic or Rangers in the process.
If it does so by collecting all three points, it will become the first team in Scottish football history to win six games against the Old Firm clubs in a single league season.
McInnes believes his team is ready to cause a surprise, saying: "It's a perfect ending to a season for the league, for Scottish football, for drama and excitement. It's pure box office.
"I felt for a while it would go the full way, and we've been preparing for that. We knew we'd have to get good wins, and obviously, Celtic have shown improvements.
"Fair play to them and to our boys for making this the situation. It's important now that we have that one big performance in us to try and get over the line."
Asked what he expected the atmosphere to be like back in Edinburgh, with only 800 Hearts fans making the trip to Glasgow, he added: "It'll be bedlam, it'll be an unbelievable atmosphere.
"There might be people out there who think everything's back on script – if Celtic win their home game, they win the league.
"But we've ripped the script up so often this season, and we've got one more in us, I think, and it's up to us to try and make that happen."
