On this day in 1978 Celtic played host to Rangers at Celtic Park and secured a crucial win in a season that would end in the most dramatic of fashion for Billy McNeill’s side. Writing in his Diary on The Celtic Star, the late, great David Potter summarised this Old Firm clash as follows: A
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| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |
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| 1 | Hearts | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 22 |
| 2 | Celtic | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Dundee United | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 13 |
| 4 | Falkirk | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -3 | 12 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Motherwell | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Kilmarnock | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 10 |
| 8 | Rangers | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 9 |
| 9 | St Mirren | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 9 |
| 10 | Dundee | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -6 | 9 |
| 11 | Aberdeen | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 7 |
| 12 | Livingston | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 20 | -9 | 6 |
