On reflection, the remarks of the Rangers goalkeeper entering today's SPL clash with Dunfermline do stand up to scrutiny.

Were the champions to countenance even the slightest of careless slips against the Fifers this afternoon, there would be little point in contemplating any kind of league match thereafter.

The margin of error for Rangers is slim indeed. Yet, as the main draw in a 12.55 kick-off for the inaugural pay-per-view circus this afternoon, Dick Advocaat's side face further disruption to their usual Saturday routine.

Concentration, it appears, will be top of the lunchtime menu come feeding time this afternoon. Insists Klos: 'I'm not thinking about the Celtic games now, I'm just thinking about the game with Dunfermline. The last time we played them we drew there and a draw would not be enough for us tomorrow - so we are focused on the game and on Monday we'll think about the next one.

'Normally, the gap is three points or so between teams but now, with three points for a win, if you are six or nine behind they lose one or two games and you close the gap.'

Queried on the most basic impact of becoming part of the Sky Box Office experiment - albeit by default after Wednesday's debacle - the German quips: 'There's no time for lunch. It's breakfast, then you play at lunchtime. But we did it for the Old Firm games on Sunday.

'Pay-per-view has started in Germany this season. They show every game live and you can choose your team and which game you want to see.

'After they started showing more football, more people went to the game. If you don't want to pay for the game, don't watch it. It's simple.'

Simpler, it appears, than facing an increasingly respected Dunfermline side at home on a Saturday afternoon. Minus Neil McCann and Barry Ferguson, through suspension, Rangers also must do once again without the services of injured stars Ronald de Boer, Lorenzo Amoruso and Jorg Albertz. But Giovanni van Bronckhorst will play for the Under-21s on Monday night.

Advocaat said: 'We have to watch ourselves because, if we drop points again, the Celtic game is not important. It's good they are playing on Sunday because it will make them nervous. We know that from last year, when we had to play a day later - it can be difficult.'

As indeed can a Saturday when the opposition appear as determined as former Ranger Barry Nicholson.

The midfielder left Advocaat's tutelage to join Jimmy Calderwood's side last summer but suffered a 4-1 defeat on his first return to Ibrox.

Admirably, that produced a new will to win in the youngster. Nicholson recalls: 'We did not compete and I was ashamed of my own performance in front of my old club.

'Ibrox was our lowest point but we are now a different team, with much more confidence.'