The Rangers Review were leading the way with the hype. Apparently Cordoba was the best defender in Bulgaria with various European giants keeping tabs on him, all the usual trimmings that you associate with an underwhelming signing.
Everything in the garden seems rosy for Phil Clement’s side with this season’s duds being sold off for big money as the Belgian Beale scouts cut price gems that are about to become the next best thing with the help of Calvin Bassey type hype from the fading Glasgow publisher.
Fortunately O’Riley was still switched on enough to anticipate the lunge, he skipped away from it, as did Nick Walsh and Beaton who both decided to take no further action.
It provided Carter-Vickers with a little respite, seconds later he was flat out on the turf looking up to the sky after Adam Idah had pounced on Jack Butland parrying a shot to find the net and send half of Hampden into delirium.
Clement said: Even people of Celtic were saying – and they are not really neutral – that we were the better team today. In that way, it is mixed feelings.
Since the start of April Rodgers has relied on 11 players plus Adam Idah, on Saturday at Hampden many of those players were running on empty- the all went home with winners medals.
As the Celtic striker raced into position he was hit by the double whammy of Ben Davies bundling him over, for insurance purposes Leon Balogun’s right foot swings into the back of Kyogo’s knee forcing the striker into a ‘shot’ that went wide of the post.
On Twitter it appeared that Tanner had an in depth interview with the retiring Celtic goalkeeper, the truth, as the tweet above shows is that he was piggy-backing onto the questions posed by other broadcasters while nursing his wounds, putting on the bravest of professional faces.
At Hampden yesterday the Belgian was at most two players short of his strongest side, there are NO INJURY excuses for yet another failure against Celtic where Brendan Rodgers is getting by on the back of a 13 or 14 man core squad.
When the Beale Revolution! crashed and burned English jumped on board the bandwagon for A Real Football Manager. Yesterday he had to admit defeat on that one as well but took consolation from Clement’s midfield, as ever it will be jam tomorrow for fans of Next Season FC.