It lasted barely a week, once again it is the hope that is killing Hugh Keevins as another Ibrox manager heads for the scrapheap, unable to revive the O** F*** fantasies that have sustained his career for over 50 years.
Liquidation in 2012 was too difficult a concept to grasp but with a 125 year head start on Charles Green’s Tribute Act the good old days of trophy sharing were never going to return, right now we are witnessing the greatest ever period of domestic domination that Scottish football has ever known. Even stronger than Jock Stein’s side that won Celtic’s first nine in a row.
Despite the false hope placed in Mark Warburton, Pedro Caixinha, Steven Gerrard, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Micky Beale things just aren’t going to be like they used to be.
Barely 40,000 copies of the Record or Sunday Mail are sold on a daily basis, their weekly totals were the daily volumes less than 20 years ago.
On the pitch Brendan Rodgers has transformed the Scottish game, in March Keevins informed Record readers that he’s be gone by the time the 24/25 season got underway.
Even the SPFL Premiership table in the Mail today is showing that the Irishman has his side 11 points ahead of Phil Clement’s mob after 12 matches, it is only a matter of timing before the Belgian is added to Rodgers’ Hall of Fame as he shouts out next please!
Whether it is Alex Rae, Barry Ferguson or Neil Warnock they face a thankless task with just their pay off to look forward to.
After losing at Pittodrie Clement scraped his way past Motherwell, Olympiaskos and Hearts without defeat.
That run brought a flicker of life to Keevins, last Sunday he informed his ageing Army of Readers at the Record:
What if Rangers beat Celtic in the Premier Sports Cup Final at Hampden next month?
And is it not the case there’s more chance of Celtic dropping league points against Hearts at Tynecastle and Aberdeen at Pittodrie than of Rangers slipping up against Dundee United and Kilmarnock at Ibrox on the same days? If that happened the title race could involve three – not just two – teams before we get to Hampden for the first showpiece of the season on December 15.
It is the hope that kills them, Keevins added:
Rangers manager Philippe Clement seems to have been declared dead and buried without any factual evidence that a fatality has taken place. And it’s Rangers fans, and nobody else, who have come to the conclusion the manager is a dead loss based on their matchday reaction.
If he can find his way onto a smart phone or laptop Keevins will find that the publication that pays for his views are running a LIVE BLOG! For Clement on the brink.
That is the guy that declared a moral victory in April after drawing 3-3 at home to Celtic, a match followed by a heart thumping lap of honour.
Since then Clement has lost three times to Celtic, most recently by 3-0 with his exciting young team lucky to escape without a more extensive beating.
Since losing away to Aberdeen last month to fall nine points behind Jimmy Thelimn’s side it has been time up for the Belgian Waffler.
There are two Glasgow Derbies coming up in the next six weeks, once they are completed Keevins will have a new messiah to place his hope in for a revival of the O** F***.
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2 Comments
by Robert John McPhillips
Where is KeevIns today a don’t see his usual garbage in his nearly defunct paper bawbag
Editor: He is delivering a love letter to John McGinn, so contrived that Celtic’s main motivation to beat Brugge on Wednesday is to avoid being knocked out of the Champions League on Match 8 by Villa. Caution contains OTT fawning to ‘Coisty’ the guy with the dodgy right hand.
by Derek Rawls
Hopefully he will be at IPOX today as I heard there is a Meeting being held, Don’t know the reason for it