The Champions League is no Celtic or Rangers fan priority because they live in insular world with domestic focus – Hugh Keevins

Both have ambitions of impressing in the group stage this term – but the columnist reckons hopes are not high among the support.

Two things need to happen before Celtic and Rangers fans will be convinced their clubs can make a serious impression on the Champions League.

SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster would have to be co-opted on to the board of directors at Ibrox for a start. And the Jock Stein Stand at Celtic Park would need to be re-named in honour of referee John Beaton as an apology on behalf of the supporters for calling his integrity into question on an annual basis. In other words, the existence of miracles would need to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt.

It requires a miracle before Celtic and Rangers can be considered as anything other than making up numbers in the Champions League groups. Assuming Rangers even get there in the first place, that is. Their qualification is on a knife edge pending a resolution to their tie with Servette on Tuesday night.