A hat-trick from Moussa Dembele, along with goals from Scott Sinclair and Stuart Armstrong cancelled out Joe Garner’s first-half header for the visitors.
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“I sincerely hope that the good spirits of both sets of supporters continues throughout the rest of the day and the rest of the evening”.
The move backfired when Philippe Senderos picked up a second yellow card for handball shortly afterwards, and midfielder Joey Barton was forced to play as a lone centre-back.
“This time, we have come up through the lower leagues, they are the champions and the best team in the country obviously, they are champions for a reason”.
Celtic kept its ideal start with four wins in four matches. Prediction: If I had to stick my neck out I would say I can see this being another 2-2 just with no penalty shoot-out this time.
“We’re very lucky to have him here, and he’s been clear that he wanted to come to a club – a winning club – that can develop him”. There were 15 points up for grabs and we’ve got eight.
Speaking to the official Rangers website, Warburton said: “This is the first league encounter, last season’s semi-final had 50/50 in terms of fans but Saturday will be heavily weighted one way so it will be a different type of atmosphere and a different weight of expectation”.
“The worst thing we can do is feel sorry for ourselves”.
“The second goal was a loose release, a poor decision”. The last Celtic player to hit the net three times in a derby clash with the Ibrox men was Stevie Chalmers back in January 1966. Barton, who has nine red cards in his career, arrived from England’s Burnley in the off-season and immediately began taunting Brown.
‘The atmosphere and the crowd baying for blood in terms of having a player sent off, I was anxious for Niko, ‘ explained Warburton.
Celtic assistant manager John Collins said this week that his club would never get credit for being champions until Rangers were in the top-flight, and he got stick for what sounded like too much of a welcome.
“So we had David Weir sent to the stand, and they had 11 men on the pitch. We are going into a local derby with 60,000 fans, 52,500 of which will be backing one side”, Warburton said.
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Getting home from the Celtic match to see how “the other lot” got on is a part of life again, though few of a Parkhead disposition dare admit it, because it cuts across the ritual enmity for Ibrox.
