‘Clement blew me away, he gets it’ ‘Rangers are back’ ‘Ange is a lucky man’ Barry Ferguson’s Daily Record Classics

On Monday afternoon the Daily Record lost a columnist, things won’t ever be the same at the failing Glasgow publisher.

For years Barry Ferguson has used his column in the Record to remind readers that there is no bigger Rainjurz man around, yesterday Patrick Steward made a dream come true for the former Alloa manager.

Without doubt it is the staunchest management team since Stuart McCall slipped away after losing out to Motherwell in a Premiership Play Off.

Ferguson has been at the Record for more than a decade, fans of Alloa and Clyde were far from happy with his obsession while on the pay roll of other professional clubs.

Some of Barry Ferguson’s managerial highlights over the last few seasons: pic.twitter.com/zDsYsyn5ZG

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No one gave more for the famous blue jersey that Ferguson who quit Ibrox twice, for Blackburn and Birmingham.

It seems that his every waking moment was spent thinking about ways to stop Celtic, three trophies for the Tribute Act in 12 years is difficult to accept when you have been brought up on success created by a scam of disguised remuneration to attract players that the club couldn’t afford.

Ferguson has twice been caught out by HMRC, as has Neil McCann but whatever his circumstances his thoughts were always geared towards the club founded by Charles Green in 2012.

In February 2017 he provided the Daily Record with this classic:

So there I was at Morrisons the other day, looking for a box of Shreddies Max.

I can’t find them and I’m starting to get agitated, walking up and down the cereal aisle, face like thunder. This woman walks up and asks if I need a hand.

She kindly helps me out and points me in the right direction. So I thank her very much and put them in my shopping trolley.

The next thing I see these three teenage boys laughing at me. One of them shouts something I can’t repeat in the pages of a family newspaper and I respond by saying something along the lines of ‘Wee man, I’ll wrap this trolley around your heid and knock you into those f***** Frosties over there!’

Five minutes later I’m at the yogurt fridge. Raging. And I’m looking around to see where they’ve gone.

The same woman comes up and asks me if I’m looking for the three boys. She could tell I was angry and she smiled at me and told me just to leave it. That they were already away.

Anyway, the only reason I mention it is because – as Rob Kiernan found out at Ibrox last Saturday – this is simply the way of life in this part of the world, when you’ve played for Rangers or Celtic.

You either deal with it or you let it destroy you. Eventually, you’ll sink or you’ll swim.

With that mentality put in a blazer and brogues what could possibly go wrong with two matches against Fenerbahce and a trip to Celtic coming in the next three weeks.

Last year the Record dumped Tam Cowan from his weekly column, the loss of Ferguson will be a welcome cost saving as print circulation hovers just over 40,000 per day.

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