There’s an old story about a senior Roman politician who was touring the provinces. In one of them, he found that the proconsul was treating his subjects in the most barbaric fashion imaginable. The Roman politician asked if that was genuinely in the best interests of the empire—because of course, if you push people hard
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| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |
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| 1 | Hearts | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 48 | 20 | 28 | 57 |
| 2 | Rangers | 26 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 43 | 19 | 24 | 52 |
| 3 | Celtic | 25 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 45 | 24 | 21 | 51 |
| 4 | Motherwell | 25 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 38 | 18 | 20 | 44 |
| 5 | Hibernian | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 41 | 31 | 10 | 39 |
| 6 | Falkirk | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 30 | 32 | -2 | 39 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 26 | 33 | -7 | 28 |
| 8 | Dundee United | 24 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 30 | 40 | -10 | 25 |
| 9 | St Mirren | 25 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 35 | -14 | 23 |
| 10 | Dundee | 25 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 38 | -19 | 23 |
| 11 | Kilmarnock | 26 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 28 | 51 | -23 | 20 |
| 12 | Livingston | 26 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 54 | -28 | 11 |
