Herald chief doubles down on his bonkers Kieran Tierney claim

More than six years on from one of his most infamous claims Jonny McFarlane has doubled down on his claim that Barrie McKay is far more gifted than Kieran Tierney.

What gifted actually means is hard to quantify, perhaps it relates to skills with scissors and clippers but in football terms only an idiot, with or without eyes would put up any sort of case for the Hearts winger against the Arsenal and Scotland winger.

Back in January 2017 McFarlane was the online wizard at the Daily Record, breathing in the fumes from Keith Jackson’s exclusive report on RB Leipzig making a £6m bid for the fleet-footed Ibrox ace.

Strangely there was no follow up on that yarn except at the Record who have been pushing similar stories for Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent and James Tavernier without any success.

Big Jonny has climbed the career ladder to become Head of Digital Sport at Newsquest which includes The Herald, Glasgow Times and The Celtic Way amongst many titles. Using his digital skills and footballing connections McFarlane is trying to plot a digital future for titles that barely scrape together 25,000 in daily print sales.

The love of McFarlane’s life is The Rangers Review where intelligent bears are fed moonbeams about the great plans and goings on at their Tribute Act. Last week the Rangers Review uncovered details of the Malik Tillman windfall which every mainstream publisher ran with word for word.

With just two Ibrox trophy wins to report on during his journalistic career McFarlane has specialised in fake trophies with The Transfer Window Title, International Break Cup and Close Season Championship all bestowed on the brilliant sides to come out of Ibrox over the last 11 years.

There is no debating over the FACT! That McFarlane is the most gifted Head of Digital Sport in Scottish publishing. With just over 10,000 followers on Twitter he sure knows how to reach and communicate.