Ange Postecoglou: More chance of me watching cartoon than Dundee v Rangers, says Celtic boss

Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou suggested there was more possibility he would be forced to watch an animated cartoon rather than become animated by the events from Dens Park involving Rangers on Sunday afternoon, speaking after his team’s 4-0 flailing of Ross County.

The resounding result moved Celtic six points clear of the Ibrox men before their Tayside trip to play catch-up in the cinch Premiership. However, Postecoglou sought to hold to his line that he could not become caught up in the vicarious fascination with how his title rivals might fare in any given game – whatever the impact for Celtic – even when Rangers' Dundee assignment is their final league encounter before they host Celtic in a fortnight’s time.

Asked if he would watch the Rangers game, the Australian sought to make light of a standard line of questioning with which he has largely resisted engaging. "My Sundays are dictated by my wife and kids, mate,” he said. “If Sing 2’s on the TV, or something, then I’ll have to fight for the remote control. It’s not that… look, I get why people are focusing on that and I get why the question’s getting asked and maybe I should just say ‘yes’. In that way people will stop asking it [but] I don’t worry about things I can't control. What we can control is today.

"If we got three points today, why would we even bother about looking at anything else? If we get three points in the next game, why would we bother? We’ve had to be really focused because if we started thinking like that now, we would have been thinking like that at the start and looking at other results when we were on six points and in seventh position after a few games. And that’s where I think you can get caught up in things you can’t control. We’ve done