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2 weeks ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Pathetic Bilbao, otherwise known as the Matalan Catalans, will go out of Europe by losing to Rangers in the Basque country next Thursday night. And, by virtue of their obvious ineptitude, forfeit the chance to contest the Europa League final inside their own stadium next month.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Dallas is now in charge of training English top flight refs after fighting and beating prostate cancer four years agoGrabbing a second chance at life prompted Hugh Dallas to jump in feet first when he was offered a chance to work in England’s Premier League, the organisation he had nursed an ambition to be part of ever since becoming a top-flight referee four decades ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Nothing sums up the dog’s dinner of a season Rangers have endured on the domestic front better than Queen’s Park’s five-goal defeat at home to Airdrie on Wednesday night. The team who put Rangers out of the Scottish Cup, sabotaging their last chance of winning a trophy, have subsequently binned their manager Callum Davidson. They might yet find time to get themselves relegated to the third tier of Scottish football while losing the financial backing of Lord Willie Haughey in the process.
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4 weeks ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
The Dons have not lifted the famous old trophy since 1990 and Hugh Keevins is less than impressedI’m partial to a wee night out so I’d be the last one to deny the Aberdeen fans the opportunity to wallow in nostalgia in the city’s Music Hall in May. That is when, it has been announced, they’ll honour the legends of 1990 who beat Celtic on penalties in the Scottish Cup Final. But shouldn’t Aberdeen, as a club, have necks even more red than their jerseys when they think about what’s happening?
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4 weeks ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Steve Clarke has difficulty with, among other things, telling the difference between an appraisal and an assassination. When John McGinn called Scotland’s Nations League going-over at the hands of Greece last Sunday evening “embarrassing”, the 30-year-old was apologising out loud rather than quietly knifing anyone in the back. It was the kind of honesty I would have expected from someone whose mother taught my kids maths – and good manners – at school in Clydebank back in the day.
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1 month ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Rangers, a team who win next to nothing, spook Celtic, the side who win most of everything available in this country. The evidence to support that claim is becoming as plentiful as it is undeniable. And we’re about to mark the first anniversary of when it all started. Philippe Clement made himself look and sound daft on April 7 last year when he choreographed a lap of honour around Ibrox with his team then publicly stated that a draw against Brendan Rodgers’ side was a “moral victory”.
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1 month ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Hugh Keevins reckons the 'image refurbishment' at Ibrox only works if they act on Cerny's water bottle anticsStrongly worded. Strategically timed. Strikingly obvious, so far as I can see, with regard to intent. Rangers' statement was commendably direct on the subject of UEFA’s action against the club because home fans displayed what the governing body described as a “racist and/or discriminatory banner” during the Europa League tie against Fenerbahce.
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1 month ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
The true essence of what makes the Old Firm game a separate life form will be released into the atmosphere above Celtic Park this afternoon. Because, for the first time in 14 years, the managerial match-up of Brendan Rodgers and Barry Ferguson will bring together the positive elements of spontaneous combustion which ignite the fixture.
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1 month ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Jose Mourinho established his managerial reputation in a meaningful way when Porto beat Celtic to win the Special One his first European trophy in Seville in 2003. The Spent One, as I think Jose should now be called, vandalised his own reputation and legacy when an interim manager, Rangers’ Barry Ferguson, gave him a schooling in Istanbul on Thursday night on the occasion of his first ever European match as a boss.
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1 month ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Hugh Keevins
Barry Ferguson has asked to be judged one game at a time during his Ibrox reign. The next match for Rangers’ caretaker manager is the first leg of the Europa League tie against Fenerbahce in Istanbul on Thursday night. That’s Ferguson coming up against the legend that is Jose Mourinho. The same Mourinho who has won five European trophies as a manager and 10 league titles with clubs in four different countries. The Special One against the Only One, you might think.
