The 2025/26 Scottish Premiership season has started in electric fashion, with both Celtic and Rangers a long way off the pace behind unlikely leaders Hearts.

Celtic's inaugural match as a club, when they faced Rangers in a friendly in 1888, is said to have been followed by a dinner in which the squads toasted good health to their counterparts.The players and officials taking part in that day's festivities might not have anticipated the intense rivalry that would develop during the years to come,

Instead, Rangers flickered defiantly. They resisted, countered and found life in the chaos of a cup tie bristling with contentious edges. Still, Celtic will know they flirted with disaster. Auston Trusty caught Jack Butland in the head as the Rangers keeper claimed a loose ball,