NO PAIN NO GAIN

THE champagne corks could be popping for Celtic just as Barry Ferguson’s Rangers side kick off at St Mirren this afternoon.

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The interim boss will be in no rush to take a peek at the images of celebration having been forced to witness similar scenes of Hoops jubilation a few times himself as a player.

But the former skipper hopes the players who have failed to keep pace with the champions-elect this term will take a look at their joyous rivals.

Perhaps then, they might experience a fraction of the anger and pain that will be gripping the punters in the away end at the SMiSA Stadium.

And maybe, just maybe, it will get through to them that campaigns as abject as this one will simply no longer be tolerated at Ibrox, even less so now that Andrew Cavenagh and 49ers Enterprises are preparing to sweep a fresh broom along Edmiston Drive.

“Well, it would be painful for me,” said Ferguson on the prospect of Celtic marching across the finish line today.

“It would be painful for my staff, it would be painful for the supporters.