IT is heartening that Celtic and Rangers will not be red-carpeted straight into the Premiership once their apparently inevitable move to English league football goes through.

A meeting of Premiership and First Division clubs interested in setting up the new Phoenix, or Premiership Two, League are understood to have agreed that the Glasgow giants will have to start in the second tier.

It is only right that they will have to work their way into the Premier League and they might find that winning promotion to the Premiership is not the cake walk some people north of the border might think it is.