He was deemed ready enough for a place on the bench as Mark Warburton brought his Rangers team across Glasgow for the first meeting of the sides since the ill-fated shoot-out at Hampden, five months earlier. Brendan Rodgers had made just the one, enforced change for the derby, Moussa Dembele replacing the injured Leigh Griffiths. It would prove to be a very significant hand dealt by fate indeed. Some things are just meant to be, I guess.
The teams appeared in the tunnel to a deafening roar from 58,348 fans on Saturday, September 2016, Celts emerging to face a human tricolour in the north-east corner where the Ultras assemble, one of the most visually-effective displays I have ever seen in all my years of supporting the famous Hoops.
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