If Russell Martin pulls off audacious Rangers triumph it means Celtic made nada of greatest advantage – Hugh Keevins

If Russell Martin assembles a team of players brought in from the likes of Luton, Bournemouth, Peterborough, and Wolverhampton and wins the Premiership this season it will amount to three things rolled into one.

Audacious. Outrageous. And excruciating for the rest.

It will mean Celtic have made nothing of every financial advantage they hold over their greatest rivals.

And the clubs outside of the Old Firm will have conclusively proved they’ve disappeared up their own database.

Rangers didn’t challenge Celtic last season because they couldn’t stop shedding points against supposedly inferior opposition.

Now the league has gone analytics mad and discarded club identity for a sizeable punt on global recruitment.

Dundee United, for example, have signed players from seven different countries this summer.

Moldovans, Australians and Ukrainians, among others, have arrived to join up with the assorted North Macedonians and Croatians already at Tannadice.

All very welcome, of course. Absolutely nothing wrong with inclusion and diversity. But can Dundee United Nations make up a team worthy of the name?

Martin’s lot at least have the benefit of being drawn together from an English league environment vastly superior to the one they are joining, and Rangers’ head coach will have had personal knowledge of all of them from his time down south.

Russell now knows he lives in a world of non-negotiables after listening to the sound of his team being booed off the park at half-time in last weekend’s friendly against Club Brugge.

I did say here last Sunday that Glasgow was a city which had to live up to its reputation of being a madhouse. I rest my case.

Rangers got a draw in the end but, as we all know, a draw’s a disaster and a