
WHEN Ange Postecoglou’s fledgling Celtic side were trailing Rangers at the top of the table early last season, he would laugh when suggestions were put to him that his team were already out of the title race. As it turned out, it was he who laughed last, and loudest.
So, if Celtic manage to beat Rangers at lunchtime and open up a five-point gap to them at the top of the table, he isn’t likely to be declaring his men as champions in waiting. In fact, he won’t be reading much into it at all.