News about Sandy Jardine

Pitiful. Pathetic. Embarrassing. Just some of the words doing the rounds on social media as Rangers supporters try to come to terms with their team's latest thrashing at Celtic Park. After a crushing defeat of this nature, there is invariably so much focus on the gulf in quality that exists between the two Old Firm sides. That's understandable because, to put it bluntly, there isn't a single Rangers player who would get into Celtic's team right now. Not one.

Friday night, at least for your disintegrating correspondent, was once payday and date night. The first offered a pittance that was so insulting it invited a slap on the face. The latter offered brief, occasional hope followed by inevitable disappointment although, thankfully, only the metaphorical slap in the face. It was a time of assignations on Boots Corner in Glasgow city centre followed, sometimes with indecent haste, by an irrevocable farewell in the shadow of bar or nightclub.