Neil Lennon knows only too well new Rangers boss Michael Beale could overturn the champions’ nine-point and 17-goal advantage lead over Celtic.
Eleven years ago Lennon’s Hoops were flagging behind Ally McCoist’s champions by FIFTEEN points and 13 goals and the Irishman feared he might receive his P45. Yet by the end of December, Celtic had edged their way in front of their old rivals and stayed there for the rest of the season. That proves it can be done but Lennon can’t see his successor, Ange Postecoglou, overseeing a similar meltdown.
He said: “Michael will feel the gap isn’t insurmountable and there are other examples apart from that one – down south, Kevin Keegan and Alex Ferguson both blew bigger leads than Celtic have to be pipped at the finish line. You can draw on your own experience as well as other people’s when it comes to gaps like that being overturned and try to use that to your own experience. The problem he has is Celtic don’t look as though they’re going to lose too many matches and never mind Celtic – Rangers have been dropping points to Hibs, Livingston, St Johnstone and St Mirren and that has to stop. Rangers have left themselves with no room for error because, domestically, Celtic have been imperious. They lost at St Mirren but have won every other game and some of the football they’ve been playing has been fantastic.
