GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 15: James Tavernier of Rangers is seen at full time during the Premier Sports Cup Final between Celtic and Rangers at Hampden Park on December 15, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Stevie Evans has apparently been telling James Tavernier that he’d have made a perfect Celtic player!
Back in 2013 Evans took the Newcastle United starlet on loan to Rotherham where he apparently pure ripped it up.
Further spells at Wigan where he played nine matches followed by Bristol City where he made 10 appearances suggested a journeyman career before Mark Warburton spent £200,000 on a future Hall of Famer after stints at nine previous clubs.
Evans has did the rounds of managing in the lower divisions in England with a 38 match spell in charge of Leeds from October 2015 to May 2016 the highlight.
Originally from Cambuslang he has never hidden his support for Celtic, recently in charge of Rotherham he tried to get Johnny Kenny on loan to the League One side.
During an interview with The Sun the topic got round to Tavernier with Evans saying:
He’d be good at Celtic, eh? I’ve told him that. Can you imagine him playing in that team?
If you picked the best of the Celtic team and the best of the Rangers team, for me there’s only one player in the Rangers team who gets into the Celtic team…
Johnston’s terrific…but James Tavernier would be SENSATIONAL in that Celtic team. He’s phenomenal, although defensively he can improve.
Either Evans is on the wind-up or he is demonstrating the judgement levels that have prevented him from managing higher than Leeds in his 30 year management career.
Since the former Wigan ace arrived in Scotland Celtic have had Mikel Lustig, Jeremy Frimpong, Josip Juranovic and Alistair Johnston at right-back as well as Tony Ralston who is also streets ahead of the serial loser across the city.
It could be argued that right-back has been Celtic’s strongest position for a decade.
While Tav will celebrate his Testimonial match next season reflecting on winning three trophies Johnston already has six winners medals in his collection and could add another two before the season is over. He joined Celtic in January 2023 and made his 100th appearance in the 5-1 win over Aberdeen.
Johnston has 51 full caps for Canada, 51 more than Tav who isn’t even the best player in his family.
(Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
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Editor to the slug hack doing the interview :
‘ Hurry up , get down there and interview this guy and get as many negative Celtic and positive Rangers quotes as you can ‘
Ach, if you know Stevie Evans this is among the least controversial things he has ever said! I don’t mind the big fella talking up his mate, but given that he has been managing in Engerlund for years he can’t have seen a lot of Celtic or Sevco games in the flesh and must be going entirely on Daily Record rave reviews and the stats…. and Tavpen is the world’s highest scoring defender – although the same stats don’t really capture the, erm, “anomalous” quantity of penalties!
Hey Stevie, puff puff pass, stop hogging that gear. It’s twisting your melon man.
So there you have it a sevco blog has confirmed that the FAKEOVER is done and sevco have new owners with £11 billion of cash to spend.
It’s well saying those season books are up for renewal, you will have a better chance of a rocking horse doing a shite and seeing Lord Lucan riding Shergar around Epsom than the FAKEOVER ever happening.
The BOOZE JOCKEY AKA Gordon Dalziel on SSB tonight all excited about wee Barry’s managerial performance last night,apparently he was a genius coming back from 2 down and turning the game around.
Alkie face then said it must have been the half time team talk that did it,really,let’s see if he is full of praise for wee Barry should Mourinho’s team and our own team give them a right good SCUDDING,and going on that performance last a hope they keep playing that FUD,sorry DUD that fmgot subbed after 29 minutes,we will run riot if he is on pitch,but I doubt he will be playing,he makes Bert Konterman look like Franz Beckenbauer.
Thought they would be fawning and spunking everywhere tonight Joker…
And chose not to listen in and won’t until Sevco drop points again –
It’s pretty awesome schadenfreude to hear their misery when that does happen to Sevco though !
That other donkey Mark Wilson was also lapping up all good things sevco.
Apparently it can continue as well because they could win the next gamescthey have against Celtic and get a result against Mourinho’s team,if only Carlsberg did football eh.
Aye Wilson was a pure wage thief in his time at Celtic Joker – Eternally f**kin injured so he was…
He’s on Clyde Superscoreboard sometimes and as you say is very complimentary of Sevco for some weird reason…
Actually not really weird to be honest – The soup taking bastard knows fine well what side his soup is buttered on….
Just what fuckin reason would he want to praise Sevco for in their (as of today) 12 year and 214 day history !