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A Title Clincher At Celtic Park, And Dodgy Dave Unleashes The Squirrels. What A Surprise.

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Sometimes in the life of any football fan you hear a link to your team, of a player or manager, that makes you think “If only.”

But realism then sets in and you know “Nah. This one isn’t going to happen.”

Some are more realistic than others.

We have had them:

Rivaldo – Martin tried to get him as he left Barcelona and apparently he was genuinely interested. I never thought so, I thought was talk to get more money out of next club, which was Olympiakos – Who were spending megabucks then.

Zlatan – now this was never on but he had hinted in the past, and when he went to Man Utd, and then to the States, that he would have enjoyed playing for the same club as his idol Larsson had. Some of us, maybe all, just hoped. But we knew, realistically, that it was never on though.

The manager who sticks out was Gus Hiddink. Now, apparently he was on board and DD pulled it at the last minute for Martin, but hey ho, Martin gave us pride and success back and a European Final and you have to wonder; could Hiddink have done that?

We’ll never know, but nor would we have traded the certainty of Martin’s accomplishments to find out.

Over at the now dead Rangers, their perennial liar chairman at the time David Murray, spun all sorts of nonsense about Ronaldo – now referred to as Fat Ronaldo – as he was leaving Inter Milan. Ever sure of the PR side of the game, Sir liar had faxed a bid to Inter of £20m, knowing it would never be accepted and that Ronaldo – then the best in the world – would never even hear of it until years later and certainly would not have entertained it.

It was all smoke and mirrors – as we now know.

This segues well to my main point – Steven Gerrard.

Now we all know that we have our rivals fans reading this blog, so first of all I will say this.

If this was to happen it would be something of a coup for Sevco, a 6 year old club pulling in a major football name like that, and kudos would be due.

But it still looks a lot like smoke and mirrors, and here is why.

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