The unofficial title is best of the rest. But this season’s third place in the Scottish Premiership is on course to be one of the worst.
Hearts currently languish 25 points behind second placed Rangers with 10 games to go. And should that chasm stretch by another 10 points then it will become the biggest ever gap between the Old Firm and the rest. It’s led to suggestions the Scottish top flight has never been in a poorer condition. Celtic dumping Hearts out the Scottish Cup at Tynecastle on Saturday added to that opinion with former Celtic striker John Hartson claiming afterwards that other sides had to do more to help the Jam Tarts hang on the Glasgow duo’s coat tails.
The Hoops have lost only once and Rangers just twice in 28 games and you need to go back to 2002-03 for that record 34-point gap between second and third.
