Rangers travel this weekend to Parkhead to maybe, MAYBE produce a goliath result at a venue where Rangers’ recent record is utterly tragic.

Since 2011, Rangers have just 3 wins at Parkhead in easily the driest spell for Rangers success in the East End in history.

The last time we won was Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s huge cup semifinal win in 2022 thanks to a Carl Starfelt OG via Fashion Sakala, and before that a Gerrard double in late 2019 then late 2020.

3 wins since 2011 in the east – in 13 years.

So Philippe Clement has a lot of history to overturn, and no Rangers fans once again to help him with it.

We look on paper and we don’t see how, despite Rangers’ actually-reasonable results domestically this season already, we can rely on him not to make the usual bad selection call and the usual stupid substitutions.

See, Clement has hijacked, like Michael Beale before him, almost every Old Firm he’s managed.

Bad subs and a bad starting team have often undermined any chance of the man getting a win in one of these matches, and if he loses a fourth Old Firm, then undeniably… absolutely nothing will change.

Fans will froth and rage at the loss, there will be high emotions, then as the dust settles as usual it’ll be back to ‘back the manager ffs’ and ‘sack the board ffs’. Plus a hint of ‘get xxx player out of the club ffs’.

We don’t see Rangers fans acknowledging or accepting anything critical about Clement even in the event of a loss. For better or for worse.

A draw though? Would we be happy with a draw? Well there hasn’t been a meaningful one (ie the title was still up for grabs) since a ridiculous 7 years ago at Parkhead in 2017 (Murty’s horrid Rangers team), so the likelihood of this one ending honours even are very, very low.

That said, it would be a modicum of progress for this manager who has plain lost there 3 times.

He’d take it and probably label it a moral victory again…

Being serious, we’d love the win. We’ve got a bit of momentum, and it would give Clement the huge boost and vindication of his management, and we’d have a lot less to moan about. We’d be top of the table.

Here’s hoping he has finally learned all the lessons of his last four Celtic matches.