That's what we need to do from now until the final is over on Saturday afternoon. Suspend all realism and let our hearts rule our heads. I'm not just talking about the support either, I mean the players and manager too.
The realistic viewpoint is this. Celtic are significantly better than us and are going for back to back double trebles having lost just four domestic matches in two years. If they turn up on Saturday, they will win and that is an undeniable fact.
However, we can't allow that to be at the forefront of our minds and I don't believe that Stephen Robinson will allow it to be. We've got to focus on ourselves and let Celtic worry about Celtic. We have a group of players who are a tight-nit unit who know how to play as a team and have proved this season that they are capable of grinding our results against better sides. We have drawn twice with this Celtic side and would have beaten them but for a refereeing blunder back in November and have chalked up big wins over Aberdeen in both Cups, beaten Hearts and beaten a Rangers side in a Cup for the first time in over 50 years and beaten them at Hampden for the first time ever.
So we need to draw courage from all of that. We are up against it here, it's a tall order, but I'd give this Motherwell team more chance of beating this Celtic team than I gave the 2011 Motherwell team beating the 2011 Celtic team. And back then I'd argue that our team was stronger than it is now whereas Celtics was weaker than their current team.
We just need to go out, BELIEVE in ourselves and hope that on the day we will be able to take advantage of any luck that comes our way and that we can exploit any weaknesses they may have.
I love the '91 heroes, but it is well past time for them to stand aside for a new team of Cup winning heroes.
