Recent depictions of a Scottish Premiership title race between Celtic and Rangers should have fallen foul of the Trades Descriptions Act.
A year ago, Rangers were easing to victory in a campaign in which their oldest foes imploded. Steven Gerrard had two earlier stabs at denying Celtic the flag but watched his Rangers team pull up lame from January. Immediately before Gerrard’s arrival in Glasgow, and including a period when Rangers were fumbling around in the lower divisions, the concept of any team properly challenging Celtic’s dominance was a fanciful one.
