Rangers edge Old Firm after red card for Celtic’s Nir Bitton

It’s hard to see Celtic coming back from this or Rangers somehow squandering a 19-point lead, despite having played three games more, in the months ahead. It looks like a definitive win for Steven Gerrard’s side, although they probably did not deserve it on the evidence presented. Celtic were the superior side in the first half certainly, but the match turned when Nir Bitton got far too tight on Alfredo Morelos just after the hour then resorted to rugby rules to stop the Colombian.

Whether it was the straight red card so promptly produced by Bobby Madden, the referee, depended on whether you saw it through a blue or green filter. The latter perspective on it was that Kristoffer Ajer was coming across quickly to