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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Rangers and Celtic united by farce in Europe and sanctions at home

Rangers players stroll over to the away end for a right rollicking after their defeat to Jablonec.
Rangers players stroll over to the away end for a right rollicking after their defeat to Jablonec. Photograph: Milan Kammermayer/Shutterstock

OLD SQUIRM

While it is not uncommon for Scottish Premiership sides to perform their own version of Brexit in August, something of a nadir seems to have been reached this time around. On Tuesday night, Celtic soiled the sheets against Lask in a spectacular act of self-sabotage, somehow contriving not to qualify for Bigger Cup’s league phase from a tie they led 4-0 on aggregate at one stage. While their humiliation was widely viewed as one for all of fitba, fans of Rangers won’t have shed any salty tears. However, their delight at the status of laughing stock visited upon their bitter rivals was hideously diminished when their own representatives from Ibrox travelled to Czechia, apparently under a banner that read “Haud our bevvies!”

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