Rangers will interpret these five forceful Celtic camp roars as boasts as Philippe Clement peers out the blue tack.

For a large portion of the season, it didn’t seem like there would be a Premiership title race at all,

but it is quickly heating up.

The amount of work completed since Tuesday night’s Ibrox visitors were last in Govan can be used to gauge Philippe Clement’s achievement thus far.

After just seven games of the Scottish Premiership season,

Aberdeen’s 3-1 victory over Rangers in September of last year dealt the fatal blow to Michael Beale’s dismal reign.

The Light Blues now behind Celtic by seven points.

Even with St Mirren leading by three points,

the Ibrox board decided to give up 24 hours after that loss because it was too much.

It would have been difficult for even the most devoted Rangers supporter to argue that their team should win the league this year,

but things have changed in just four months after that setback.

The Dons are expected to be led by veteran English manager Neil Warnock when they go south,

and Rangers would be sitting at the top of the Premiership for the first time in TWO YEARS if they won by three goals or more.

This will be Clement’s 16th league game in charge,

and he has transformed the team with an amazing record of 14 victories,

1 draw, and only one loss—against Celtic.

He has benefited from a lull in the Hoops offense,

as Brendan Rodgers’ team surrendered 12 points in the same time frame.

Many people,

including Parkhead residents and former players who are now pundits,

continue to doubt Rangers’ ability in light of their early-season troubles and two Old Firm derby losses.

Rangers breathing into Celtic’s necks and the Hoops trying to regain the steadiness of past seasons,

however, may be making that opinion change.

During Celtic’s domination,

and especially under Beale,

Rangers were criticized for having too much rhetoric and not enough evidence to support it (see Todd Cantwell’s nuanced

Gers in the Brown stuff?

When Celtic icon Scott Brown leads his Ayr United team to Ibrox on Saturday afternoon for their Scottish Cup fifth round match,

tea time,

fans may be reminded of his assertion that his former team was virtually certain to win the championship.

Brown had discussed the title race and knew without a doubt how it would turn out before accepting the job at Somerset Park.

“I’m confident that Celtic will win the league,

” he stated.

“I believe that Celtic, particularly the front three,

are the superior squad overall.

Compared to Rangers, they appear more capable of scoring goals.

They appear to have more legs all over the field,

and their midfielders and defenders are undoubtedly superior.”

Mac the Knife

After Celtic won the derby at Parkhead,

Callum McGregor took a vicious jab at Rangers.

The skipper is measured when addressing the media,

but when he addressed gamblers in a hospitality suite,

he let down a little bit, and social media caught wind of it.

He claimed that the Light Blues “hadn’t played anyone” during an earlier unbeaten streak under Clement and that they

“don’t deal with intensity” and “very quickly start to unravel” when pressured.

It revealed a genuine understanding of the Celtics’ true feelings toward their opponents and was brutally honest.

Lennon says Celts drive Gers mental

The Ibrox team lacks the attitude,

according to Neil Lennon,

to unseat Celtic’s Premiership dominance.

The Irishman declared:

“If they want to win the league,

they need to break that hold that Celtic have over them.

They still don’t have that mentality.”

“And in order to accomplish that,

they must either bring in players with higher caliber or better mentalities.

” In response, Clement thanked Lennon for giving his team talk.

To Lennon’s credit, though,

he was discussing the possibility of the Gers winning the Old Firm derby,

and that hasn’t been addressed yet.

They will have the opportunity to disprove him in April at Ibrox.

Confident Brendan

In light of his enormous success on that front the first time around,

the fact he was taking over a team of Treble winners, and the fact he was up against an inexperienced manager,

when Rodgers returned to Parkhead for a second stint,

the emphasis was very much on improving in Europe.

On the day of his revelation,

he stood at the summit of Celtic Way and showed that he believed.

He said, “For those who I need to convince,

I will see you here in May,”

to anyone who was skeptic or harboring resentment following the way he left after his first spell.

As the Rangers made their first-ever return to the top division,

Rodgers heard nothing but positive things about his team during his first stint as manager.

However, he dismissed them and headed for Leicester City.

And while he reveled in his second derby victory of the season,

he downplayed any suggestion of a challenge from the opposition,

with much fanfare surrounding a Light Blues team that had been revitalized under Clement.

“During my two stints here,

I’ve worked against five Rangers managers,

and every time Rangers were coming,

” he stated plainly. Every time, at some point.

Thus, it’s usual for me. If I followed the press and media,

we would always be in a state of emergency and terrified of the Rangers. However,

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