Whilst Celtic might’ve won the day at Parkhead, Rangers did the fans proud in the second half. Save for some very poor individual errors, we’d have taken them yesterday.
And that’s the thing. Celtic fear Rangers. Rangers went toe to toe with them with 10 men and for much of the match looked the better side. This isn’t how Old Firms have been in recent years.
We’re a team on the up, they’re a team on the wane. And if anything at all good comes from yesterday’s defeat, it’ll be Neil Lennon getting the job full-time.
Celtic really do look a shadow of the side which has dominated the last few years. Save for the likes of Odsonne Edouard, Tom Rogic and James Forrest, they’re ordinary. We came so close to showing them up on their own patch.
Scott Brown’s dodgy behaviour pretty much summed up their attitude to the game. They know we can match them. They brought the entire game down to a slugging match. It’s all change from the last two seasons.
Their victory merely papers over the cracks of a team on the way out. And should Lennon find himself at the helm next year, it hands Rangers a major advantage.
He’s an ordinary manager and Celtic are beginning to look like a very ordinary team. Rangers must go into next season with confidence. And they’ll go in with even more of it should Neil Lennon find himself in the Celtic job full-time.
