On 26 November 2000, just three months after Martin O’Neill’s Celtic had annihilated Rangers at Celtic Park in the 6–2 game, we went to Ibrox fully entitled to believe we were the masters of the Scottish football universe. What happened that day will live in infamy because something went catastrophically wrong. We were on the
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| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |
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| 1 | Celtic | 20 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 55 | 7 | 48 | 53 |
| 2 | Rangers | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 16 | 21 | 40 |
| 3 | Dundee United | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 30 | 22 | 8 | 34 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 30 | 2 | 34 |
| 5 | Motherwell | 21 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 27 | 34 | -7 | 30 |
| 6 | St Mirren | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 27 | 37 | -10 | 27 |
| 7 | Hibernian | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 31 | 35 | -4 | 26 |
| 8 | Dundee | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 33 | 37 | -4 | 25 |
| 9 | Ross County | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 38 | -16 | 25 |
| 10 | Kilmarnock | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 37 | -12 | 24 |
| 11 | Hearts | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 25 | 31 | -6 | 23 |
| 12 | St Johnstone | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 24 | 44 | -20 | 15 |
