Paul Lambert has warned Steven Gerrard that the pressure is all on his shoulders as he tries to stop 10-in-a-row.
It is a pressure that only Wim Jansen has ever encountered with Lambert joining Celtic in November 1997 to assist the cause.
Walter Smith was expected to create history but faced by the challenge from across the city the Ibrox side crumbled despite having Brian Laudrup and Paul Gascoigne on board.
Celtic have won the last 11 domestic trophies with Neil Lennon’s squad firm favourites to maintain that run to create history.
Lambert was at the centre of the action when Celtic stopped the 10 in 1998 and told BBC Scotland’s Sportsound podcast:
There’s a lot more pressure on trying to stop it than trying to win it. If you don’t win it, then okay people will be really, really disappointed, but say ‘okay, it’s nine-in-a-row again’ but if Rangers were to lose it now to ten-in-a-row, then the history of Rangers is GONE.
That’s the pressure we had. We had the protection of John Clark, Billy McNeill, Bertie Auld, Ronnie Simpson, Jim Craig, Tommy Gemmell, Bobby Murdoch, big Yogi Hughes, Stevie Chalmers, Jimmy Johnstone… we had incredible pressure to protect the great Jock Stein era.
Did you want to be known for losing their history? Not really because the 67 Lisbon Lions are the greatest Celtic team ever. The current guys just now I think are in a really good position to go and win it because the momentum is there and the way the club is and the structure is.
The 97/98 title race went to the final weekend with both clubs stumbling in the run in.
Celtic lost at Ibrox and drew with Hibs, Hearts and Dunfermline in their final seven matches but a 2-0 win over St Johnstone on the final day clinched their first title in a decade.