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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Hello and welcome to National World Football Talk,

00:09 your nan's favorite football podcast, Ken.

00:11 On today's episode, we're going to be discussing

00:14 Celtic and Rangers' latest disappointing

00:18 Scottish Premiership results.

00:19 Both teams held two draws at the weekend

00:24 as Celtic maintained their lead at the top of the table,

00:28 but Rangers, who do have a game in hand.

00:31 I'm joined today by my Glasgow World colleague,

00:34 Declan McConville, to talk through the latest round

00:37 of fixtures there at the weekend.

00:39 It'd be an absolute calamity if Rangers were to lose

00:43 these final two games, you know,

00:46 given that it's a competition that obviously

00:48 everyone knows quite clearly,

00:49 Rangers are kind of better suited to,

00:51 it'd be safe to say, at this moment in time.

00:57 In terms of domestically, Declan,

00:58 I know it was a missed opportunity at the weekend,

01:00 but Rangers do have the game in hand.

01:03 Do you feel there is an opportunity there

01:07 for Clermont to kind of really make inroads into this lead?

01:10 You know, there is potential there.

01:12 They've got a cup final to look forward to next month.

01:14 The kind of whole kind of mood around Ibrox

01:17 would change dramatically as a result, you'd imagine?

01:20 - It probably would.

01:22 It's just always difficult.

01:23 I think the Europa League certainly makes it difficult

01:25 because, again, just naturally,

01:28 Rangers have been playing catch-up,

01:29 playing the Thursday night football,

01:30 Celtic the Tuesday, Wednesday.

01:32 And there's very little games between now

01:35 and early January that I think Rangers play

01:37 before Celtic, so.

01:39 And again, I think if you ask any football manager,

01:41 they'd rather the points are on the board

01:44 rather than having the game in hand.

01:46 The way this is also gonna work,

01:48 that Rangers, of course, have a game in hand

01:51 over Celtic just now, the weekend of the cup final,

01:55 which, again, as you see, could probably be

01:56 a feel-good factor at Ibrox

01:59 if they're going to beat Aberdeen and win the cup.

02:02 Celtic will play Hearts that weekend,

02:04 so again, could go two games clear of Rangers.

02:09 Rangers will have them in hand,

02:10 but again, it's about the points.

02:12 If that then goes to 11,

02:14 Rangers, I think, play just before Christmas,

02:16 the midweek Celtic have it all from Rangers play.

02:19 They win that game, it maybe goes back to eight,

02:21 game in hand.

02:24 But then you get that derby game,

02:25 and if it ends up going to 11 with a game in hand,

02:29 it's very difficult to turn over.

02:32 Having got to Christmas, again,

02:35 we could see the flip of that if Celtic

02:37 do drop any more points.

02:38 If they play like they did on Saturday,

02:40 they will drop more points.

02:41 So it's gonna be interesting to see.

02:44 But as I say, I think just by the way the fixtures

02:46 are working, it's probably working a wee bit more

02:48 in Celtic's favor with playing before Rangers

02:52 and whatnot and having a derby game at Celtic Park

02:55 at the end of the year.

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Rangers, Celtic and the path to the Cup final | On this Week's Fitbaw Talk

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