Rangers Laughing

You can rest assured that Rangers fans would be loving what happened to Celtic in the Champions League. It lost the opening leg 1-0 to Dinamo Moscow. More importantly the first leg was played in Scotland. Do Celtic have any hope of winning in Moscow? Most likely next to none.

Rangers are already in the group stage though, but given their record in the competition, Celtic fans may soon be joining in in the laughter.

The Future of the Old Firm Derby

I don't know about you but the Old Firm Derby just doesn't do it for me. This is an instance where a football rivalry is bigger than the league. For all intents and purposes you only have two teams in Scotland - the rest are just making up the numbers.

The Celtic - Rangers rivalry is bad for Scottish football.




The statistics are staggering - Between them the two have won the League 94 out of a possible 113 times. It is a big deal if these two aren't the two on top of the ladder and competing in the final for everything.

The competition format also amplifies this with them playing each other in the League eight times - that is simply too much.

Every time you pay attention to what is happening in Scotland it is that Celtic is in the middle of a huge streak or Rangers is.

You can see how good Rangers and Celtic really are when they compete in Europe - some of their losses are simply embarrassing. I'm not sure what they can do to fix the situation in Scotland. They have been trying to do so for quite a while.