Now an entire season is about to come down to the outcome of three Old Firm derbies it could be that Brendan Rodgers might finally be returning to his comfort zone.
Two of them will determine the destiny of this year’s title race. The other – although not yet set in stone – is highly likely to decide which of them gets their hands on the final piece of silverware of the season at Hampden on Saturday, May 25.
Three games, the outcome of which will make or break everything Rodgers has been striving to achieve since returning to Glasgow’s east end amid a great deal of shoulder shrugging and a whole lot of indifference.
That’s not exactly what he had in mind, following the hysterical fanfare which accompanied his first coming back in the summer of 2016.