Every Celtic-supporting man, woman and child in the land, the caller on the radio said to me, will be “quaking in their boots” after the display given by Michael Beale’s Rangers team in the Old Firm derby.
Statements of a combative nature in the immediate aftermath of that particular fixture are good for business. They stir the blood of those who agree with the sentiments expressed. And they provoke retaliatory calls from those who believe they’ve just listened to audible baloney.
The mass outbreak of fear predicted by the caller is, to be realistic, some way off yet. It would surely be wildly premature to suggest otherwise. Beale’s potential to make serious inroads into reducing the gap – which was allowed to develop between Celtic and Rangers before he got here from London – is, at the same time, worthy of recognition.
