1) Deila came to Celtic having already won a league and cup elsewhere. His career is just getting started. McCoist’s is just about finished.
The media doesn’t like to be reminded of this, but Ronny Deila arrived at Celtic Park already a league and cup winner.
Yes, he did it in unfashionable, unsexy Norway, but he did it with an unfancied team who he utterly transformed and made into winners.
You know what else?
He did it at an age when Kenny Miller is still playing football and by the time he was 40 he’d added an SPL title and a League Cup to his personal trophy haul.
By the time this season finishes he’ll have another league championship and a Scottish Cup to pad out the CV.
If the board does decide to part with him he’ll be young enough not to worry about watching the best years of his career spent in the ignominy of scouring the Situations Vacant ads for work.
Ally McCoist took over the Rangers job when he was almost 50, having never managed a professional club in his career.
His two lower league titles (and no cups, by the way) are not the stuff dreams are made of for chairmen of ambitious football teams.
When Sevco was told to start life in the lower leagues I made a confident, some said bold, prediction which I was never in any doubt about; that Ally McCoist would never again manage a top flight team, anywhere in football. Not even Norway.
So far, not even Kilmarnock have moved to prove that prediction wrong.
