Ally McCoist prepares Steven Gerrard for the effect of Rangers winning the title

The Light Blues are on course to stop Celtic picking up the Scottish Premiership trophy for a record 10th successive time and Gers fans are becoming increasingly excited.

Gerrard’s side are 21 points clear of their Old Firm rivals albeit they have played three games more.

It would be the first top-fight title at Ibrox since 2011, before the club’s well-documented financial collapse from which they emerged in the bottom tier of Scottish football. And former Rangers manager and striker McCoist believes Gerrard, in his third season as Gers boss, might be surprised at the reaction to a long-awaited title victory in Govan.

Speaking on TalkSport, he said: “I’m telling you right now he will be thinking he is in the biggest and best job on the planet because he is probably, maybe six weeks away.

“If he didn’t realise, he is hopefully six weeks away from realising the effect that he is going to have on so many people.

“And it is going to be unbelievable.

“And I hope that Steven reaches that position and I would imagine that even he might be a little bit surprised about the effect he has on so many people if and when he crosses that line.”

qCeltic chief executive Peter Lawwell has ‘profoundly apologised’ to supporters in wake of the club’s controversial training camp to Dubai.

The Celtic supremo said the training camp in the Middle East was held ‘with the best of intentions’, but now admits the trip was a mistake.

He said: “With hindsight, looking at the outcome of the trip clearly it was a mistake – for that I profoundly apologise to our supporters.

“The rationale for the camp was with the very best of intentions. Things haven’t gone the way we wanted them to and the outcome is clearly very regrettable.

“Overall the decision to go was for the right reasons – it was performance. Of course at the end of the day for outcome of that has been really disappointing.”