The date of the next derby between Celtic and Rangers has been confirmed.

Saturday April 8 has been identified as when the fixture will take place.

The match will kick-off at 12.30pm and will be shown live on Sky Sports.

As well as the derby, the match away to St Mirren will now take place on March 5 at 12pm and the game against Ross County at Dingwall has been moved to April 2, also to a 12pm kick-off.

Both of those fixtures will be shown on Sky Sports.

Meanwhile, playing against Ange Postecoglou's Celtic in full flow leaves you thinking 'please don't score again', according to Dundee United striker Steven Fletcher.

Fletcher was part of the Tangerines team that were obliterated 9-0 at home by the champions back in August.

Kyogo Furuhashi and Liel Abada both bagged hat-tricks that afternoon at Tannadice with Carl Starfelt, Josip Juranovic and Jota all on the scoresheet as well.

The result prompted the sacking of then-Terrors manager Jack Ross with the Taysiders rooted the bottom of the SPFL Premiership with one point from five matches.

Since then Liam Fox has taken over the reins at Tannadice and - although they are still very much mired in the relegation fight - form has taken a definite upturn with just one defeat in their past five matches.

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The Hoops go to Tannadice for the first time since the 9-0 win on Sunday evening, leading Fletcher to recall their previous visit.

He told Sky Sports: "It was a tough game... we were in a bad place at that time, coming off the back of AZ Alkmaar game which was a bit disappointing then straight into that game.

"You were almost like 'please don't score again'. It's tough moments but you come out of those games and it's a big learning curve for everyone - it's just how you bounce back from that and I think we have done."

United player-coach Charlie Mulgrew, who spent six seasons at Celtic as a senior player and came through the youth academy, added: "It was horrible, there's no getting away from that. It was a low moment. I felt a bit for Jack Ross because you feel like you never did enough to help him.

"At the end of the day, it's always the manager who suffers but the only thing you can do is pick yourself up and try to move forward."