As the old adage goes, sometimes it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt- Keith Jackson’s warning to Ibrox stars

As someone with some very personal knowledge of the subject Keith Jackson has been warning Micky Beale and his Ibrox stars that sometimes it is best to reign in the bravado.

Talk is cheap, very cheap, like when a former billionaire completes a deal for a shiny pound coin.

Back in November 2010 Jackson introduced Craig Whyte to the Daily Record’s army of readers, a billionaire from Motherwell, the Dave Murray of the noughties with cash to splash at Ibrox including a front loaded £25m transfer war-chest.

Before breakfast time Internet Bampots had sussed out that the owner of Castle Grant wasn’t utterly loaded, a mortgage on his main home and an incredibly low key online profile suggested that someone had been working hard to clear the multiple discretions on Whyte’s less than glittering career.

Off The Radar wealth Record readers were assured of with the yarn kept going for more than six months.

When Internet Bampots picked up on the Ticketus sale and how Rangers had taken an advance on Season Ticket sales Jackson ran the story in print but within 24 hours the Record had mysteriously decided to delete a real scoop on Sir Craigy Bhoy.

From that troubled time Jackson has passed on his experience to the current Ibrox stars, in today’s Daily Record he explains:

The more they talk, the worse it gets.

Whether it’s Michael Beale, John Lundstram, Fashion Sakala or James Tavernier, Rangers are making a nasty habit of saying all the wrong things at all the wrong times. Even worse, together they’re in danger of driving a wedge between themselves and the very core support that they’re trying to placate and keep onside.

As the old adage goes, sometimes it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Because the more noise they make, the more they’ve tied their own tongues up in knots over these last couple of weeks.

Lundstrum was put up on Thursday to speak to the media then watched from the bench on Saturday as Nicolas Raskin and Todd Cantwell cut some groovy first half shapes against Kilmarnock.

Choosing players for media duties looks increasingly difficult for the Ibrox PR team but either Connor Goldson or Borna Barisic will be dishing out the soundbites tomorrow ahead of playing Hibs at Easter Road.