John Hartson watched the home players go wild at Ibrox on December 29 and considered that Celtic might be involved in a title race.
Three months later he is expecting his old club to cruise to another championship, confident that his prediction of a 15 point winning margin won’t look foolish.
Not as foolish as the Ibrox celebrations at the end of 2018 anyway.
Since Scott Arfield taunted Scott Brown on the final whistle nothing has gone right for Steven Gerrard’s men, leaving their manager bemused at the complete lack of a killer instinct from within his squad.
A January defeat to Kilmarnock set the tome, as Celtic racked up the wins draws with St Johnstone, Hibs and Kilmarnock allowed the hoops to stretch away with the high-fiving at the end of December made to look very hollow.
“Rangers got carried away by that result,” the Welshman told The Sun. “If you look at the results since that win at Ibrox, I don’t know if they took their eye off the ball.
“I don’t know if they put so much into that game and got the result, then went away on the winter break and felt they had Celtic’s number. You have to ask, where’s it gone?
“It was a wonderful performance. Celtic were second best and Rangers won fair and square but is that enough? Just turn up and beat Celtic in one Old Firm game? Does that make you happy?
“If it does, then you have a problem because Rangers should have kicked on from there. They haven’t, while Celtic have. That’s why they are ten points clear.
“If Rangers had played like they did that day against Celtic, they could have been the team ten points clear but they have dropped points all over the place.
“Steven Gerrard must wonder what happened. Something’s gone wrong. They were almost challenging after that win, but they have fallen back and gone out of the Scottish Cup too.
“I said Celtic would win the league by 15 points and it looks like they are on track to do that.”
Gerrard takes his side to Celtic on Sunday without a win in their last four matches, a run that has also saw them knocked out of the Scottish Cup.