We have got to the point in a fascinating Premiership season where I would suspect we have Celtic fans watching not just their own team but also turning a weather-eye to events in the North-East.

I will be in the Highlands on Monday night as BT Sport broadcast the Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Aberdeen game and then I’ll be with the Dons again on Friday night at Firhill when they go up against Partick Thistle.

Celtic still have a game in hand, on a date still to be named, away to Dundee but because of that it means that Aberdeen will have another chance to go top of the league and put under little bit of pressure on the Parkhead side.

And while I think that one or two Celtic fans might be enjoying the competition, I think the majority are probably a little bit uneasy with it because they haven’t been used to it for so long. But to me it is healthy, we have a genuine title race and it is something that we should all embrace.

Psychologically I think that Derek McInnes’ side have put all the pressure on Celtic now and although there seems to be a causal feeling that it doesn’t matter because Celtic will go on and win their remaining 14 league games, I don’t know that I am quite so sure.

I also think that Aberdeen will slip between now and the end of the season but I also suspect Celtic will too.

Ironically, this week sees the Pittodrie side face up to Inverness and then Thistle, two teams that they drew with over the festive period, with top spot in reach.

When Aberdeen had that blip in form in October and November I think many of us thought that would be it, but they are a team who appear to have learned an awful lot from that time.

They seem to have eradicated a lot of those errors and they are standing tall now because they have twice faced down Celtic and beaten them.

I do think that does wonders for the confidence and self-belief of a squad. You would have to temper that by saying that they were pretty woeful the day they lost at Celtic Park but last season they did not beat Celtic even once in the league.

To have done it twice now, I think, definitely lends an air of confidence about them and I do think there is a strong sense of a steely inner-resolve about the Pittodrie side now.

Certainly, it is going to make for interesting times as we head into the final three months of the season. There will be ups and down for both teams, I think, but wouldn’t it do wonders for our league if after the break we had a game at Celtic Park between Celtic and Aberdeen that effectively was for the title?

It would be a super advert for the game up here and we are at mid-February just now so it really is not too far off. I think if Aberdeen can keep themselves there or thereabouts then we will have a pretty exciting end to the campaign which is what we all want.

Even if the Dons drop points this week between Monday night and Friday night, I would have to say that the pressure remains all on Celtic. It is how they stand up to that which could be interesting.

Social media can be a great thing but I have to say that I do think it is a double-edged sword too.

This week we have seen some pretty nauseating abuse directed towards Leigh Griffiths which has had the player bow out of Twitter and we have also seen Kilmarnock’s Kallum Higginbotham take a swipe at Rangers’ James Tavernier after the player posted pictures of his thigh on Twitter.

I do think that if clubs had their way that they would probably put a stop to any players being on social media – and there are certain managers whom I think would simply not allow it. I cannot imagine either Jim McLean or Sir Alex Ferguson permitting any of their players to be venting on Twitter under their regimes.

It is a different era, of course, but I do think that clubs probably have to underline the importance of responsibility on the forum.

When you are on Twitter you are broadcasting to the world and what is said stays there forever. There are good aspects to Twitter in that fans can genuinally interact with players but at the same time the stuff Griffiths got was appalling and I have seen younger footballers guilty of spouting without thinking many times.

My own advice is simply to count to ten before replying, no matter how vitriolic the abuse is. Sometimes it is just now worth it. But for anyone to say anything that wouldn’t be prepared to stand up and say in real life is nonsense.