If Celtic are to seriously challenge for the league championship then these are the type of games that must be won. Tony Mowbray's men were up against a Hearts side who hadn't won at home since September, a side who are languishing in the bottom half of the table, and for them to throw away another three points to such patently inferior opposition was nothing short of criminal negligence. 
unlucky to receive a red card
For the first thirty minutes the game more or less ran true to form and when Georgios Samaras scored in the 21st minute, netting from the rebound when Scott McDonald's header hit the bar, it seemed that the Celts would go on to collect all three points without too much bother.
Unfortunately we know from experience that the centre of our defence (perm any two diddies from three) are liable to instil confidence even in the worst of forward lines - Hearts were joint bottom with Kilmarnock in the goals scored column before today's game - and so it proved to be.
Glenn Loovens was the main culprit this afternoon when he inexplicably allowed a through ball into the area where Jamie Mole was ready to pounce. Gary Caldwell was forced to make a desperate tackle on the English striker and although he seemed to have played the ball referee Willie Collum decided otherwise and awarded a penalty to Hearts and a red card to Heid.
Stewart scored from the spot kick whilst Celtic boss Tony Mowbray reshuffled the pack. Marc Crosas was sacrificed as Stephen McManus was brought on to shore up the sieve with Georgios Samaras dropping back into midfield. For the remainder of the first half Hearts sought to take advantage of the sudden disarray within the Celtic ranks but in truth they never caused too many problems.
Ten-man Celtic soon settled into a rhythm in the second half and continued to create the better chances. Aiden McGeady, booed constantly by the anti-Irish neanderthals in the Hearts support, was unfortunate when his strike came back off the post and Georgios Samaras had time and space when Scott McDonald delivered a perfect ball to him inside the box but the big Greek striker contrived to miss the target completely.
Hearts seemed happy to hit on the break, in fact Hearts seemed happy with the prospect of points shared at this point, until the Celtic defence once more showed their inability to learn from previous errors. In the 75th minute Templeton delivered a decent cross to the back post where Bouzid ghosted in unmarked, just like Motherwell's Mark Reynolds last week, to plant the ball firmly in the back of the net. Even after this setback Celtic continued to push forward and make chances but ultimately that slackness in defence has proved so costly once more.
"We have to take it on the chin and move on," said Tony Mowbray. "There was lots of positive play but the nature of the second goal was very disappointing. At the other end we created enough chances but today it didn't go for us."
"We looked pretty dominant but the sending-off obviously impacted on the game." said the boss. "But the second half we played pretty well for long spells. To be fair to the strikers, we've been scoring an average of three goals a game and if we keep creating the chances they will go in."