Hugh Keevins

1 week ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins

I have a friend who sits in the rear section of the Copland Road stand at Ibrox. The view he got from there in the season now ended – once he got his seat back after the temporary residency at Hampden caused by a building plan malfunction – was distorted by disaster on the park. None greater than the Scottish Cup humiliation at the hands of Queen’s Park.

2 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins

I assume there was no confidentiality clause in Philippe Clement’s pay-off deal with Rangers. The Belgian left no stone unturned when it came to self-protection in his radio interview last weekend. The board showed him no patience. Directors listened too much to fans. Players cost him the title .. on it went. You wondered if Philippe might end by saying: “It wisnae me.” The only bit he got right was when he was asked to offer words of advice to successor Russell Martin.

2 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins

When Russell Martin was MK Dons manager, the story goes his team once scored a goal which came after 56 passes in the build-up. That’s what you call possession football. Rangers fans will have time to leave their seats, buy a pie, and sit back down again before the creation of a goal leads to its execution.

2 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins

There's one man who has slipped under the radar in the midst of the furore surrounding Russell Martin’s arrival at Ibrox – that’s Dan Purdy. But he’ll come into full focus soon enough. Rangers’ new technical director, replacing the unwanted Nils Koppen, came to mind when I remembered a quote from Arsene Wenger. The Frenchman, who knew a thing or two about being successful when he won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cup finals with Arsenal, was once asked what made a good manager.

3 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins

Dave King was acting like someone who had sold his house yet reserved the right to tell the buyer how to decorate the propertyDave King's public push for Steven Gerrard to be named Rangers manager was always a backward step based on shaky ground. And a bit of a cheek as well. The former Ibrox chairman was acting like someone who had sold his house yet reserved the right to tell the buyer how to decorate the property after he had left the building.