LENNY’S HEARD IT BEFORE!

RANGERS may be the shortest odds going into an Old Firm game at Parkhead in years - but Neil Lennon insists the noise around Celtic’s arch rivals is music to his ears.

With the Hoops decimated by injuries and players unavailable due to Covid-19, pundits are lining up to tip Rangers to pocket three points from their trip to Celtic Park.

But Lennon (above) insists he has seen - and heard - it all before.

He said: “We just carry on as normal. Our preparations have been good, as best as we possibly could get them under the circumstances.

“I take no notice of what people will predict or what they think the outcome will be, because it doesn’t really matter.

“They don’t know what is going on or how we’ve prepared for the game.

“I’m delighted if they want to write us off, they’ve done that many times before.

“It’s just about winning the game. It gives you a psychological lift if you can win the first one but I don’t think it will have a major bearing on the outcome of the season.

“It’s too early for that. We heard all that chat at the end of December that we were finished blah, blah, blah.

“We came out all guns blazing in the second half of the season. It’s really difficult to predict how a season is going to go.

“What I am pleased with is our consistency. It’s been quite a stop-start season with games being cancelled and international breaks.

“So it’s been difficult to get any sort of momentum going.

“But we’ve negotiated those circumstances very well of late.”