James Maddison's stoppage-time winner ensured Rangers suffered a miserable return to Pittodrie as Aberdeen claimed a dramatic 2-1 Ladbrokes Premiership win.

Rangers today clinched the Irn-Bru Third Division title to complete stage one of their journey back to the top of Scottish Football.

Former owner Sir David Murray has hit out at the possibility of Rangers being stripped of league titles as part of an investigation into alleged undisclosed payments to players.

Thirteen 13 players have reported for the first day of pre-season training at Rangers’ Murray Park training ground, the club’s media team have confirmed.

For high farce last week, Glasgow was your only possible destination, where, amid scenes of wild jubilation, Rangers slashed Celtic’s lead at the top of the SPL to a mere 18 points.

Celtic defender Cha Du-ri has lost his appeal against his sending off against Rangers at Ibrox on Sunday, the Scottish Football Association have confirmed.

Neil Lennon was left fuming at having to watch the second half of Celtic’s 3-2 Clydesdale Bank Premier League defeat by Rangers at Ibrox from the media room after being sent to the stand by referee Calum Murray.

Neil Lennon and the Scottish Football Association (SFA) are on course for yet another collision after the Celtic manager described his half-time sending off at Ibrox as “a joke” and claimed he was “deprived of doing my job properly” during yesterday’s 3-2 defeat to Rangers.

Rangers 3 Celtic 2

Rangers have been dealt a blow with the news that Kyle Lafferty could be out for a further six weeks as they prepare to travel to Inverness in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League on Sunday.

Rangers 4 Hibernian 0

St Johnstone 1 Rangers 2

Arbroath 0 Rangers 4

Rangers 3 Motherwell 0

JOE LEDLEY’S second-half goalgave Celtic victory over Rangersat Parkhead and took them two points clear of their Old Firm rivals at the top of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.

Celtic 1 Rangers 0

St Mirren 2 Rangers 1

Hibernian 0 Rangers 2

Rangers made three changes from last week’s win over Dunfermline for their Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Hibernian.

Darren Fletcher is the latest fitness doubt ahead of Scotland’s Euro 2012 qualifying double-header against Liechtenstein and Spain after being hit by illness.

Nikica Jelavic has been passed fit to start Rangers‘ Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Dunfermline.

Rangers are boosted by the return of Nikica Jelavic ahead of Sunday’s Old Firm derby

Nikica Jelavic has been ruled out of Rangers‘ Clydesdale Bank Premier League game at Dundee United with a knee injury picked up while away with the Croatian national team.

Rangers 2 Aberdeen 0

Rangers 1 Maribor 1 (Maribor win 3-2 on agg)

Inverness 0 Rangers 2

Rangers manager Ally McCoist handed Lee Wallace his debut in the first leg of their Champions League third qualifying round tie against Malmo at Ibrox.

Rangers 1 Hearts 1

New Rangers signing Lee Wallace had to settle for a place on the bench against former club Hearts in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League opener.

Rangers will be without suspended skipper David Weir for their Clydesdale Bank Premier League opener against Hearts.

Rangers have confirmed they have agreed a fee of £1.5m with Hearts for defender Lee Wallace.

Northern Ireland international Andrew Little has signed a new one-year contract with Rangers.

Celtic 4 Hearts 0

Celtic 3 Hearts 0

Anthony Stokes makes his Celtic debut in the SPL clash with Hearts at Parkhead today.

Scotland 2 Liechtenstein 1

Steven Fletcher is expected to withdraw from the Scotland squad for their Euro 2012 Euro qualifying game against Liechtenstein at Hampden on Tuesday.

Hibernian 1 Hearts 2

Hearts 2 Celtic 1

Wales 3 Scotland 0

Japan 2 Scotland 0

Celtic’s Shaun Maloney has withdrawn from the Scotland squad for the match with Japan and has been replaced by Dundee United’s Scott Robertson, the SFA have confirmed.

Celtic left-back Danny Fox is one of four players to withdraw from the Scotland squad for the friendly against Japan on Saturday.

CELTIC manager Tony Mowbray experienced a sense of déjà vu yesterday as his side struggled to their late win over Hearts at Parkhead which took them above Old Firm rivals Rangers at the top of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.