Among the countless qualities which made him such a giant of a human being, Walter Smith had a wonderful way with words.
He’d never use five of them when just one or two would do. And he’d almost always cut straight to the heart of the point, regardless of how layered or nuanced it might have seemed at the time. Smith had a knack for simplifying the kind of complexities which would tie most others up in verbal knots.
“There is no secret to managing Rangers,” was one of his favourites, even though so many before and after have been evidently stumped by this very conundrum.
