Celtic domination is a 21st century obliteration as Rangers lose grip of a manufactured trophy claim – Keith Jackson

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Philippe Clement will stick to his guns. He has no choice.The Belgian will point back to what happened at Hampden on Sunday afternoon and remain adamant that the wafer thin margin of Celtic’s latest cup final triumph is proof that the gap between these two old rivals is minimal at the most.

But the truth of the matter is that the more Rangers believe this to be the case, the less inclined they will be to do something significant about it and the bigger the chasm is likely to grow.The statistics will show that there’s not all that much in it.

After all, when they placed the League Cup in the cabinet on Sunday night, Celtic took their major trophy tally to 119. Which is only one more than Rangers are currently standing on.

However, those running numbers do not come close to charting the true scale of Celtic’s dominance since the turn of the century.In much the same way as it required a penalty shoot-out to separate the two of them at the weekend, it all feels all a little bit like a sleight of hand.