The desert’s all very well and the World Cup is fine in its own way. But enough’s enough. The enforced break because of a bout of Qatar has now started to produce audible and visible signs of withdrawal symptoms.
We’re in danger of disappearing up our own narrative very soon unless we get some actual Premiership football to watch in this country. We’ve turned into the kind of place where the annual general meeting of a club’s shareholders becomes a daily topic of conversation.
And the only thing that’s missing is the introduction of VAR to see if Rangers chairman Douglas Park crossed the line between accuracy and acrimony when he said some contractual negotiations ended with agreement being “unattainable”. If Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent have been as bad as the majority of Rangers fans seem to think they have been for some considerable period of time, then why would you want to pay them even more to have them hanging about the place?
