{"id":509342,"date":"2026-04-02T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:05:14","slug":"is-scottish-premiership-title-race-set-for-fresh-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509342\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Scottish Premiership title race set for fresh twist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What sort of response would you get from a Rangers fan if you told them their team would have the chance to go top of the pile in April when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/videos\/clydj335242o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Martin was being smuggled out of Falkirk<\/a> six months earlier?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After that 1-1 draw, Martin was sacked with the Ibrox side in eighth place, 11 points adrift of top spot after one win in seven league matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another draw against United in their following game under interim boss Steven Smith extended that gap to 13 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ibrox was toxic that October afternoon. Twenty-four weeks on, victory in a repeat of that fixture will send Rohl&#8217;s side to the summit for at least 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been far from perfect under the German head coach, but after 16 Premiership matches &#8211; 10 wins, six draws and one defeat &#8211; a potential momentum-shifting moment is there to be grasped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Failure to capitalise, however, and momentum could shift the other way and the Glasgow club&#8217;s fans will only reiterate their doubts about the team&#8217;s mentality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plus, they will be facing a United side buoyed by their fantastic 2-0 success over Celtic before the international break, but the visitors have not won a league game at Ibrox since April 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What sort of response would you get from a Rangers fan if you told them their team would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-509342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}