“Judge us in May,” said a wounded Mark Warburton after Celtic’s systematic demolition of his Rangers team on Saturday. It was a perfectly reasonable request to make. The anxiety for Warburton — and he surely feels it — is that his summer signing policy is starting to look more questionable by the week. Warburton went with five of his 11 new recruits against Celtic, and three of them in particular — Philippe Senderos, Niko Kranjcar and Joey Barton — could scarcely muster a pass mark. Barton, reputedly on a handsome weekly salary, looked every inch a plodding and grafting 34-year-old, on the…

Source: The Times September 12, 2016 00:22 UTC