Steven Gerrard probably feels that he gets a tough time of it in Scotland, from the media and ungrateful fans.
As he heads south to chew over matters with sycophants like Danny Murphy, Jamie Carragher and Jim White he can be certain he’ll be told what an incredible job he is doing ‘up there’.
Two runs in the Europa League can be compared to Pedro Caixinha’s reign for reassurance that progress is being made without looking into the bigger picture.
Hearts and Hamilton beat Gerrard’s side in back to back matches earlier this year. No goals were scored by a team including Ianis Hagi and Ryan Kent.
In his two seasons at Ibrox Gerrard has had a far larger net spend than Celtic. His rivals have lost Moussa Dembele, Stuart Armstrong and Kieran Tierney. Gerrard has brought in transfer fees for Daniel Candeias and Josh Windass.
Last summer be spent £10m on Filip Helander and Kent. Already this window he has surpassed that on Kemar Roofe, Cedric Itten and Hagi. The spending spree hasn’t gone entirely un-noticed.
Over the next week the anger of Ibrox fans will be all over social media. Hearts & Hand podcast was the match sponsor last week against St Mirren, Follow Follow were granted an exclusive interview with Castore heart-throb Tom Beahon.
Gerrard has already overseen several false dawns, scenes of premature celebration. Not even the soft soap treatment from White, Murphy and Carragher will do if the Liverpool legend is in post if Celtic get within reach of the number than Ibrox fans are dreading.