Michael Beale's Ibrox exile lasted a year down south before the lure of Rangers hauled him back to Glasgow.
And in that time at Aston Villa and QPR, if he hadn’t been obsessed with keeping in touch with the fortunes of his former club, he’d have struggled to know how they were doing. Scottish football coverage is practically non-existent south of Hadrian’s Wall and Beale believes that’s all the more reason for those who are involved in the game up here to shout about it from rooftops.
Not ignore a third v second clash under the lights at a full-house Tynecastle as was done by Sky on Wednesday night. Not moan at players for celebrating goals, as was done in the direction of Alfredo Morelos in the same game. Beale has watched Celtic bring top class Japanese players to these shores. Hearts have brought in World Cup stars and his own team has added Todd Cantwell and now Belgian U21 international Nico Raskin to a squad already bristling with talent. He believes those positives should be promoted and he doesn’t see many signs of it.
