Ange Postecoglou is out of Celtic free passes but slapstick Rangers face an uncomfortable truth - Keith Jackson

The last free pass was tossed away somewhere in the Arctic Circle on Thursday night.

But just when it seemed Ange Postecoglou was about to feel some heat, Rangers came to the Australian’s rescue with some quite unexpected carelessness of their own.

And so, a day which started with two dropped points on one side of the M8 ended with two more dropped at the other and Postecoglou still holding on to a lead he must have thought he had blown.

Motherwell’s two second-half goals at Ibrox will have done a great deal to lift the mood of a man who was in danger of becoming somewhat prickly after his side stumbled back on to home soil and allowed two crucial league points to slip through their grasp in Leith.

A 0-0 draw at Easter Road blew his chances of opening up a six-point lead at the top of the Premiership table and even though, ultimately, no damage was done Postecoglou will have made his way back across the country with much to chew on.

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With a flurry of shrugs and increasingly exasperated facial expressions the big Aussie stuck doggedly to his guns and insisted that Celtic’s performance deserved a great deal more than a single point but, in the real world, he was fooling next to no-one.

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