Rangers legend Ally McCoist hails Celtic as best team in Scotland 'by a considerable margin'

Ex-Rangers manager Ally McCoist has hailed bitter rivals Celtic. He has offered his encouragement to the club, that they were "awarded" the Scottish title. Celtic have been confirmed as Scottish champions for the ninth season in a row. The decision was taken at a board meeting on Monday after the 12 clubs agreed at the end of last week that completing the campaign was unfeasible. Celtic were 13 points ahead of nearest challengers Rangers. McCoist said on talkSPORT: "As well as offering congratulations to Celtic - you have to have a degree of sympathy as well. I've gone on record as saying, and I stand by it, if you're a Celtic player or a Celtic supporter, anyone involved with Celtic, you would have wanted to see the season finished. As did everybody else, because that's the only fair way to do it. "It's through no fault of their own, absolutely through no fault of their own, that the season has finished early and they have been awarded the title in this manner. Listen, you have got to say Celtic have been the best team in the league this season by a considerable margin. That's the facts of the matter. "They're 13 points clear, Rangers have got a game in hand. Could Rangers have caught them? Absolutely. Was it likely? No, not at all, and probably highly unlikely that Rangers caught them. The fact of the matter is they still could have caught them. The unfortunate thing for all the teams is the league campaign hasn't been given the opportunity to finish." Source: rte

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