6 Brendan Rodgers Rangers putdowns as Celtic boss riles Philippe Clement with a bit of 'fun'

He has their number on the park but Brendan Rodgers isn't adverse to putting Rangers in their place off it as well.

The Celtic boss is preparing for perhaps his most significant derby clash in charge of the Hopos. Philippe Clement takes his team across Glasgow next Saturday for the final Premiership meeting between the pair this season and the stakes couldn't be higher. A win for Celtic will virtually ensure they'll be crowned champions, giving them a six-point cushion and superior goal difference with just two matches still to play.

Rangers simply need to win to keep their hopes alive. Rodgers insists his team will "have some fun" against their rivals, which seems to have got Clement all riled up. Record Sport columnist Chris Sutton reckons Rodgers has got under his rival’s skin and while we'll find out at the weekend if that is actually the case, it won't be the first time he's rubbed the blue half of the city up the wrong way. Record Sport takes a look at the best of Rodgers' Rangers baiting over the years.

With Rodgers on his way to completing an invincible first season in charge of Celtic, Rangers were putting a plan in place to try to end their rivals' dominance. Graeme Murty's caretaker stint was to end in the summer and the Ibrox club identified Portuguese boss Pedro Caixinha as the man to bring silverware back to Govan.

It wasn’t an appointment that was expected north of the border, with Caixinha little known outside of Portugal and managing in Qatar before taking the Rangers reins. And he wasn't someone Rodgers was familiar with, the Hoops boss initial response to being asked about Caixinha's arrival a blunt: “I have never heard of him.”

Almost in the same breath, Rodgers accused Rangers of pumping out