Clownish Hack Proved Spectacularly Wrong On Celtic’s Captain As Scotland Flop Again.

Tam McManus, eah? What is it with this guy right now?

Does he enjoy making himself look foolish, or what?

This week he was at it again talking trash about Callum McGregor and making the silly prediction that our captain might find it hard to get back into the Scotland team, because the midfield was so brilliant against the Dutch the other night.

They lost that game 4-0 though, so I do wonder what on Earth he was talking about.

Last night, in a weird game at Hampden, Scotland lost 1-0 to the North of Ireland team. It was an awful game, an eyeball bleeder. The whole team flopped badly.

The whole affair had an odd edge to it. In the aftermath the victorious Irish boss praised his fans for coming in such numbers. As my brother-in-law pointed out to me, many of them travelled from as far away as Larkhall. They were there on social media last night, Ibrox fans moaning about the “national anthem” getting booed.

It’s one Hell of an identity crisis this lot have.

But It was McManus I thought of watching that terrible, dreary display. His assertion that McGregor would face a challenge to get into this team is not just obviously barmy but it comes from what I’ve talked about before; The Cringe. It’s this view that players based in England must obviously be better than those who are up here in Scotland … it’s not true.

McGregor is a better footballer than any of the players in that midfield, and that the others play in the EPL makes not one bit of difference to that fact.

McGregor is Scotland’s best player.

McManus has watched him enough to know that. Whatever poison is brimming in his veins at a moment such as this, it’s as if he can’t help but let it out.

I’ll tell you what McManus should have focussed on instead; the mystery as to how Ibrox ever got so much money for Nathan Patterson, who had the worst night of any player on the pitch and sold the goal and was as awful as I’ve seen him … and I’ve seen him enough that I’ve set a relatively low bar where that is concerned. He’s just not worth that kind of cash.

If Aaron Hickey is fit, if Tierney is there and willing to play right back, it might be Patterson that ends up having the uphill fight to get into the team.

McManus really is a blowhard, and those fringe outlets he appears on sum him up. When even The Village Idiot has a regular TV gig and a newspaper column what does that say about his skillset? Nothing good. He tries hard though.

He makes it onto the pages of this blog because he never stops trying to drum up controversy. But it’s idiocy he expresses instead.