A comparative analysis of Celtic and Rangers in the here and now requires to come with more caveats than you would find at a caveats’ convention (there surely must be one somewhere in the multiverse). Yet, with the kick-off to a cinch Premiership season sure to see Scotland’s two behemoths engaged in a battle royale for domestic supremacy only a week-and-a-bit away, the exercise is irresistible.
Not least because it is one of our game’s favourite supporter/pundit parlour games. All this understood, and without further ado, let us delve into how the pair appear to be shaping up for a championship that should be thrillingly nip and tuck.
The latest (scant) evidence we have for the nick in which Ange Postecoglou’s title holders and Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s challengers find themselves is provided by their outings over recent days.
Now, as opposition, the English Premier League’s seventh-placed finishers West Ham are several stratospheres above a Legia Warsaw that struggled to a lowly 10th in the Polish top flight.