AUDACIOUS.. OUTRAGEOUS.. EXCRUCIATING

That's how I'd sum up a Rangers title win next term.. and it'd be a humiliation for all their rivals

- HUGH KEEVINS

IF Russell Martin assembles a team of players brought in from the likes of Luton, Bournemouth, Peterborough, and Wolverhampton and wins the Premiership this season it will amount to three things rolled into one.

Audacious. Outrageous. And excruciating for the rest.

It will mean Celtic have made nothing of every financial advantage they hold over their greatest rivals.

And the clubs outside of the Old Firm will have conclusively proved they've disappeared up their own database.

Rangers didn't challenge Celtic last season because they couldn't stop shedding points against supposedly inferior opposition.

Now the league has gone analytics mad and discarded club identity for a sizeable punt on global recruitment.

Dundee United, for example, have signed players from seven different countries this summer.

Moldovans, Australians and Ukrainians, among others, have arrived to join up with the assorted North Macedonians and Croatians already at Tannadice.

All very welcome, of course. Absolutely nothing wrong with inclusion and diversity.