Jeff Stelling sneers at Celtic AND Rangers with bizarre Scottish Cup rant but Ally McCoist has perfect putdown ready

Jeff Stelling reckons English onlookers couldn't care less about an all-Old Firm Scottish Cup final - because it seems like the Glasgow giants face each other 'every week'.

But his talkSPORT partner in crime Ally McCoist had the perfect comeback ready and waiting as he sprung straight to Scottish football's defence. It's Rangers vs Celtic in the Hampden showpiece next month and remarkably it's the first time both teams have made the final since 2002. May 25 is a date for every Scottish football fan's diary but the game's global reach is set to go far beyond that as the big two meet in a blockbuster finale to the season.

Since they last met in the final at Hampden 22 years ago, which Rangers came from behind to win a 3-2 thriller through Peter Lovenkrands, they've met in the semi-finals five times - and have faced off in the last four in five of the last eight years. So when attentions turned to the game on Stelling and McCoist's Monday morning breakfast show, the former Sky Sports anchor wasn't buying into the hype.

Interrupting a Scottish football love-in between McCoist and Shebahn Ahern, Stelling said: "Have they played each other a lot in the semi-finals? So that's why they're not getting to the final, because they're knocking each other out before then.

"For God's sake, every English football fan will be thinking 'Rangers against Celtic? There's a surprise!' Why don't they just play each other every week? Forget the rest!"

But a ready and waiting McCoist quickly clapped back: "Jeff, I have to inform you that we up here don't give a monkey's what every English football fan thinks!

"Yesterday's game was a good one, Rangers vs Hearts. The one on Saturday, what a game by the way. Celtic-Aberdeen, a brilliant game to watch, finished 3-3, Celtic won on penalties. What a game of football."

And Ahern had the final word as the seemingly Celtic-daft pundit chimed in: "Come on the Bhoys! We'll end it on that..."