Old Firm Derby: Celtic and Rangers’ Combined XI

Niko Kranjcar has already tasted the Celtic Park atmosphere and aims to stifle its impact when he and his Rangers team-mates play there on Saturday. I was never of the opinion that Rangers were going to come in and set the place on fire and win the league by some considerable distance.

Rangers last won the league in the 2010/11 season and Celtic have dominated ever since, winning five straight Premiership titles.

The 53-year-old is quoted by BBC Sport as saying: “The building process is still quietly in operation”.

Warburton told Rangers TV: “We know what Niko has got and technically he has outstanding ability and technically there are no doubts”.

Davie Provan predicts a comfortable Celtic win against Rangers in Saturday’s Glasgow derby and feels Rangers are “not up to speed” yet this season.

“There will be games where things don’t go their way”.

Far from being envious of the former Brentford boss, McCoist said: “I look at it with 100 per cent pleasure because the football club and the supporters deserve that and it is what is required”.

The former Croatia global would go on to break through at Dinamo, playing 119 games and scoring 22 goals for the capital city club. I think circumstances would indicate I was probably unlucky in the timing of the managerial job, but you can’t have everything. So I think it would be wrong of me to start complaining.

“We need to be better than them and this is a great test for us as a team to see how far we have come”.

“Warburton has to hope that his boys can give him a very similar performance to the Scottish Cup semi-final of last season”.

The biggest game in Scottish football is back in the Premiership this weekend as Celtic take on Rangers in the first top flight Old Firm derby for four years.