{"id":324669,"date":"2026-03-02T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:19:12","slug":"jamie-braidwood-rangers-and-celtics-chaos-and-late-derby-drama-proves-why-neither-are-title-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324669\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Braidwood: Rangers and Celtic\u2019s chaos and late derby drama proves why neither are title favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Celtic's Reo Hatate scores their second goal in the Scottish Premiership draw with Rangers at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow. Photo: Action Images via Reuters\/Lee Smith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/55ed30ca-473b-4820-a195-f8da806ada85.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Celtic&#8217;s Reo Hatate scores their second goal in the Scottish Premiership draw with Rangers at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow. Photo: Action Images via Reuters\/Lee Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was the desperate goalmouth scramble that could perhaps sum up a season. As Reo Hatate shot low to his left and after Jack Butland made the penalty save, the Old Firm was hanging in the balance as an afternoon of fire and chaos flipped on its head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But, at the third attempt, Hatate forced a crucial equaliser over the line to salvage a point for Celtic and deny Rangers all three, while leaving one clear winner. With nine games to go, it is advantage Hearts once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic&#8217;s Reo Hatate scores their second goal in the Scottish Premiership draw with Rangers at Ibrox Stadium in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5082,61,60,26592,112],"class_list":["post-324669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-celtic-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rangers-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}