Not for the first time the independent thinking of Michael Stewart has shown up his fellow BBC pundits.
With no show at Pacific Quay possible without at least one EBT recipient involved the prospect of Derek McInnes declining his dream job was never discussed during a five week frenzy.
With Barry Ferguson, Derek Ferguson, Billy Dodds, Alex Rae, Kris Boyd and Steven Thompson offering their expertise Stewart has very much been a loan wolf trying to remind the others that we are in 2017 and the good old days came to a halt in 2012.
Rangers are a huge club who have just been turned down by a manager with connections to them. A manager that many predicted would definitely take the job.
Surely serious questions need to be asked now. Like “why?”
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) December 7, 2017
Stories get leaked, people in the game talk to each other and narratives build. We should all just take a step back at times and engage our brains as well.
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) December 7, 2017
Pretty sure I told everyone it wasn’t a case of Rangers come calling & Derek goes running.
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) December 7, 2017
As recently as Monday Boyd was howling away about how Del would know what is on offer at Ibrox through third parties and that moving to Ibrox was inevitable.
Apparently a bigger wage bill and better personal terms are on offer based on the £10m that Pedro Caixinha squandered during the summer.
When Stewart pointed out the mountain of debts and warnings in the club accounts he was dismissed as a maverick trying to derail the Ibrox bandwagon.
There wasn’t much humble pie around last night, as they scratch their heads through a weekend of punditory wondering why perhaps the state broadcaster may look to draw on a more balanced panel of experts from outwith James Traynor’s contact book
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