Rangers captured its second straight Scottish Premier League title
after Kyle Lafferty scored the only goal in a 1-0 win at Hibernian
on Sunday.
Lafferty netted after 17 minutes at Easter Road to earn
Walter Smith's men a victory that puts them out of reach of
second-place Celtic, despite its 2-0 win at Dundee United earlier
Sunday.
"It seems to have been one of the hardest (titles) but maybe
I've felt like that after every one of them," said Smith, who has
won nine championships with Rangers in two spells with the club.
Because of substantial debts, Rangers has not signed a player
since American midfielder Maurice Edu arrived in August 2008 and
Smith, who has been working without a contract since January, has
not said whether he will be at the club next season.
Rangers now has 83 points to Celtic's 72, with only three
games remaining. It is Rangers' 53rd league title triumph - Celtic
have 42 while the next best are Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibernian with
four. Aberdeen was the last club other than Rangers or Celtic to
win the league and that was under Alex Ferguson in 1984-85.
Diomansy Kamara gave Celtic a 30th-minute lead before Robbie
Keane scored an injury-time penalty after Dundee United had been
reduced to 10 men for Jennison Myrie-Williams' second yellow card.
