If Fergie was to discover that Arsenal or Chelsea had been playing ineligible players to deny Manchester United honours he’d be the first to be shouting about the injustices served up.
During the 2011/12 season McCoist managed a club that stopped paying Her Majesty Income Tax and National Insurance from player and management wages.
Last season Irvine was given nine Premiership matches, if he can get through Saturday’s match following the script from Crawford Allan and Andrew Dallas he’ll be climbing the ladder with more regular matches involving Celtic.
Since returning from Japan with the Celtic first team he has had to content himself with matches against sides like Caledonian Braves, Gala Fairydean, Cowdenbeath and Berwick Rangers.
The supporters will be feeling a lot better about themselves than they did in our last game at home against St Johnstone.
No Ibrox player has ever played for England, John Souttar and Ryan Jack are expected to be named among the Scotland substitutes for tomorrow’s match.
The contemporary home kit will no doubt sell in big volumes but will never win any popularity contest although it may well have been designed to provide the maximum possible contrast with the origins kit.
Potter was reported to be getting paid close to £1m a month by l’Equipe before being sent on gardening leave after being sacked by Chelsea in April.
Giving Beale more time is only delaying the inevitable. By the time he goes, the league may be well over the horizon. The bloke was an unfathomable appointment in the first place.
That is wishful thinking, even with the toxic reaction to the defeat from Celtic, Beale won’t be resigning when he knows his future prospects are coaching under-5 squads in the bowels of some English academy.