Barry Ferguson reveals the special reason that the Beale Revolution! is back ON

Barry Ferguson believes that Thursday’s Europa League win over Real Betis has turned the season around for Micky Beale with his squad building a special bond with the angry bears.

After losing to Kilmarnock and Celtic the fans certainly let their heroes know what they thought of this season’s Revolution with all signings except Jack Butland being slaughtered at matches and online.

Beale has quietly sidelined the dross that he bought over the summer with Ben Davies, John Lundstram, Tom Lawrence, Kemar Roofe and Rabbi Matondo starting the match against Betis.

Jose Cifuentes and Abdallah Sima were the only summer signings to start the match but it seems that a dubious scrambled goal and beating a team in green and white has restored Beale’s reputation as the Brains Behind Gerrard.

True Blue Ferguson watched the game from his home but that didn’t prevent him from reminding Daily Record readers that every second of his life is spent thinking about the Tribute Act of the club he left as a player for the joys of Blackburn and Birmingham:

Before the biggest matches, like an Old Firm game or a European tie under the lights when the fans are in early and that atmosphere was beginning to crackle, I would make a point of warming up as close to the fans as I could.

I would run towards them, stare into their eyes and I could feel the energy and excitement. There’s an electricity that they create and I plugged myself straight into it. I couldn’t get enough of it.

But that’s been missing over the first few weeks of the campaign because the supporters have been standing back and waiting to see what this new side is capable of producing.

They got off to the worst possible start on the first day of the season at Kilmarnock and, since that defeat, it’s felt as if they’ve been testing the patience of the supporters.

That’s probably added to the feeling of tension inside the dressing room and it could be that some of the new boys have struggled to deal with it because they can’t get their heads around what’s expected of them. In the first half against Betis they certainly played as if they were nervous.

They allowed the Spaniards to take control, pop the ball around and they couldn’t get a foothold in the game.

Then, with ten minutes to go before the break, they suddenly seemed to realise what playing at Ibrox is all about. They upped the tempo, they got closer to their opponents, they frustrated them and forced them into making longer passes and getting caught on the ball. And that’s when the whole atmosphere cranked up inside the stadium.

The minute that the gap to Celtic extends beyond four points the whole atmosphere will crank up again, similar to after the defeat from Brendan Rodgers’ side at the start of this month.