Celtic and Rangers have European red faces and there's no time for giggling amid Scottish football disaster - Chris Sutton

Rangers fans had a chuckle at Celtic’s expense when Lazio struck in stoppage time the other night.

Sides were splitting with the Celtic fans 24 hours later when Rangers went down to the third best team in Limassol. Never mind all this giggling in Glasgow – this week in Europe has been no laughing matter. It was a disastrous couple of days for Scottish football and certainly nothing to smile about.

I know Europe is tough. Look at the likes of Manchester United and Arsenal this week. They’ve spent fortunes and lost to Galatasaray and Lens. Celtic and Rangers have a fraction of the resources and would get slaughtered for those results. But that is still no excuse. I was off duty on Wednesday night and sat in the stands watching the game and it was a real sickener.

It was beyond frustrating. Last weekend at Fir Park it was ‘typical Celtic’ when they scored a late winner. On Wednesday it was ‘typical Celtic in Europe’. That was the feeling from the fans around me. Yes, they were gutted – but it was entirely expected.

It’s hard to be overly critical because they did play well. They deserved at least a draw but certainly not to lose. But how many times can we hear them going on about ‘learning’ from these experiences.

When are they going to learn? The annoying part for me was this feeling they have to score the perfect goal every time. The one they did get was pretty much perfect.

But how about an ugly goal at this level? Like the one Lazio got to equalise. I get the way Celtic like to play but there has to be some variation.

They don’t have the players suited to playing any other way than on the deck, so you can’t criticise them for not whipping in crosses. But it does make them predictable when there isn’t any