It reveals everything about the current fragility of Celtic supporters that they made the early-morning journey to Ibrox on Sunday with fear in their hearts. Rangers with the managerial crisis. Rangers with the 6-0 away defeat in Europe. Rangers without a league win.

A 0-0 draw in the Old Firm was widely viewed as just about enough, if hardly appetising. That too damned with faint praise: Celtic had no shot on target in the first half of a league match for the first time in approaching eight years and have now drawn their three most important games of this nascent season 0-0. Excitement? Everybody is just getting through this grimly.

For the several hundred Celtic supporters who travelled to Kazakhstan last midweek, a message of mutiny soundtracked their worst European elimination since

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