Shameless Tom English turns on Micky Beale as his Revolution! crumbles after close season warning to Brendan Rodgers

Tom English’s employers have allowed him to write about soccer again, typically a day after the event as Micky Beale’s Ibrox Revolution ends as quickly as many Celtic fans expected.

Hindsight and revisionism are two areas that the BBC reporter does excel in, others may use a different term as he reveals why it has all ended in tears for the former QPR boss who managed to include four defeats from Celtic into his 43 match reign.

With the warm glow of lifting the Dead Rubber Trophy and an outstanding start to the transfer window English could only see good times ahead at Ibrox.

His disdain and contempt for Celtic was heightened by the return of Brendan Rodgers, like most of the Gullible and Deluded he looked forward to seeing the Irishman chopped down to size by the mighty new regime inside Ibrox.

On June 19th English announced on the BBC website with his usual pomp:

Rodgers will find the domestic landscape more challenging than before. He’s a terrific manager and you’d expect him to add considerably to Celtic’s trophy haul, but it won’t be so easy this time.

Celtic fans knock great fun out of mocking their city rivals but Rangers are way stronger now than they ever were during Rodgers’ first stint.

This afternoon, taking a break from egg-chasing in France that virtually no-one is interested in English applies something that he does have a fine grasp of, hindsight. On the BBC website he rewrites:

Beale was backed handsomely. Between freed-up wages on the biggest earners (Ryan Kent, Alfredo Morelos, Filip Helander and others) and transfer fees received for Glen Kamara, Colak and Sakala they had an opportunity to invest and rebuild, but what they lacked was the nous to land the right targets. They had a fast-talking rookie manager and no director of football. They were trying to make bricks without straw.

There was, and still is, a savvy vacuum at Ibrox. There was only one, and only ever will be one, Walter Smith, but it is his type of presence that’s desperately lacking in the football department now.

In the wake of the Beale show, they need somebody serious to instil a hard edge and a clarity, a manager with personality and wisdom. There’s not many people like that in Rangers’ price range. The pressure on the board to find one is intense.

Just over three months ago all was happy and glorious at Ibrox, after all Rodgers was set to face city rivals way stronger than the 2016 version of the Tribute Act.

Chancers like Mark Warburton and Beale can easily fool folk like English, mainly because he wants to believe in them.

Since his one man band support of Craig Whyte right up until the end of January 2012 English has been taunted by Celtic fans, he detests it, his comments since then underline that at every turn.

His crass comments on the death of Shane Warren and contempt for Brendan Rodgers on his return are just two of many examples.

Hopefully he’ll soon be back on soccer duty biging up the next Ibrox Revolution and warning Celtic fans that the challenge from Ibrox will be way stronger than before. To be fair it wouldn’t be difficult to be stronger than the feeble challenge put in by London geezers Warbo and Bealers.

At least Warburton survived until February, a few months longer than Mister Beale.

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