ITK bear proposes AI replacement for Phil Clement

One sensible bear has proposed that an Artificial Intelligence approach to management can bring success back to Ibrox.

Recent events have shaken the Ibrox support to their core with the very real prospect of failing to lift the Pre Season Cup for the first time since 2015.

Mark Warburton, Pedro Caixinha, Steven Gerrard, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Micky Beale have all delivered outstanding summers but doubts are being expressed about whether Phil Clement can continue that run of.

As recently as April it seemed that A Proper Football Manager was poised to deliver success but three matches against Celtic put paid to that notion as Brendan Rodgers came out on top.

There are clearly areas of football that could benefit from AI but there is an instinct to football that requires split second judgement to change the course of events.

AI isn’t going to turn James Tavernier into a serial winner, Ben Davies into Baresi or create a goal scoring machine out of Cyriel Dessers or Scott Wright.

Ten days before the competitive action starts at Tynecastle loyal bears are throwing in the towel and raising the white flag on their title hopes.

Hampden on August 10 for the visit of Motherwell could turn very nasty as 46,000 loyal Season Ticket holders discover that they have been duped again.

Artificial Intelligence and an artificial club with artificial records might not be as daft as the average bear looks.