Hugh Keevins was left with paella over his cardigan last night as Pathetic Bilbao killed off his dream of seeing James Tavernier lift the Europa League next month.
The veteran reporter has been tipping all manner of glory for the Ibrox Tribute Act since he sat alongside Derek Johnstone discussing how many points ahead of Brendan Rodgers Mark Warburton would finish at the end of the 2016/17 season.
Celtic finished that season 39 points ahead of their city ‘rivals’, Rodgers took the club to an invincible treble while Warburton resigned in fear at Ibrox in February 2017 before being sacked later that year by Nottingham Forest.
After putting his faith in Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Micky Beale and Phil Clement to end Celtic’s domination Keevins is on board the Barry Bus being steered by Keith Jackson, the man that broke the WORLD EXCLUSIVE over the takeover from the San Francisco 49GERS.
On Sunday Keevins was in his pomp, bizarrely dubbing a club from the north of Spain as the Matalan Catalans before spelling out his dream of how Ferguson’s Europa League triumph would wipe away the pain of another Celtic treble.
Pathetic Bilbao, otherwise known as the Matalan Catalans, will go out of Europe by losing to Rangers in the Basque country next Thursday night.
And, by virtue of their obvious ineptitude, forfeit the chance to contest the Europa League final inside their own stadium next month.
Celtic, who could be crowned Premiership champions for the fourth time in a row if Rangers should lose to Aberdeen at Pittodrie, run the risk of possibly winning the Treble for a world record-breaking ninth time and being the runners-up in the story of the season competition.
In a season in which Rangers have suffered the worst result in their history, losing to Queens Park in the Scottish Cup, and assembled the longest run of home defeats since the club began 153 years ago, the chances are Barry Ferguson will bring a European trophy to Ibrox.
I was laughed at for saying Rangers, in the midst of a domestic season that diminished their reputation, would make the Europa League final at the end of a season which began when they couldn’t make a shipment of building materials turn up on time to renovate a stand.
But some things are bigger than all of us, and fate is one of them.
Rangers progress in Europe looks to be pre-ordained because it has nothing to do with the reality of the situation, which is that Ferguson was put in interim charge because Philippe Clement was running the team, and the club, into the ground.
And Ferguson is continuing that work alongside two media darlings in Billy Dodds and Neil McCann by his side.
Four wins in 10 matches is poor by any standard, Ferguson hasn’t won a single match at Ibrox and is currently on a run of four matches without a victory. Two goals have been lost in all six domestic matches.
It looks like the fakeover from the San Francisco 49GERS is all that Keevins has left to hang onto for this season- with Celtic eight days away from winning #title55 it looks like a long summer of misery for all at the Daily Record.
Wee bazza stated after his lastl league home defeat that he knew what he had to do and it wouldn’t be pretty .
He is in full on Wattichencho mode now .
In his eyes a return to anti football is the answer to all Sevcos woe’s.
A throw back to the glory days of yore .
Let’s not mention the wholesale cheating going on in these days of yore (mibs and tax evasion contracts ) let’s just reminisce about the wins .
If we thought they were a kick and rush team before then if Bawry gets the gig we ain’t seen nothing yet
Pish Stained Senile Auld Soup Taking Jakey Bastard! Sad thing is he thinks he’s a SMART CUNT LOL! Ridiculed REGULARLY but the DELAY buttons his Savour, guys just a DIK!!
Fate? FFS! Somebody put this demented auld duffer out of his misery now.
153 years ? Remind him of what he told Andy gray in a live radio broadcast.
Shug Keevin, the ‘Fud’s FUD.
The Poster boy fur pish stained copy and garbled misrememberances.
The usual slabbering Sevco asslicking served up as Opinion, mair like a Deja Vue of a horoscope
for deluded knuckle dragging bigots.
This ignorant old tube is unreal.Too rude and disrespectful to do any basic research.Bilbao is in the Basque country not f***king Catalunya!!FUD.
That ignoramous Keevins needs to be reminded, the current squad of Pathetic Bilbao, or The Catalan Matalans as he disparagingly referred to them as, are currently valued at €367 million. Whereas his Govan Galacticos are valued at a mere €79.45 million. Both values are from Transfermarkt. Although, I’d profer, the majority of the huns value is in loan players who will scuttle away at the end of the season!
Where did herr lip get 153 yrs from, another fuckin balloon trying to keep the diseased mob happy. HH
I predict a doom laden Celtic headline in his forthcoming Sunday column ,,
‘ Will the Celtic dominance continue when the 49ers come ? ‘
‘ Rodgers is looking bored and must be looking for a new adventure ‘
Something along those lines
You could set your watch to this dreadful old prick
Keevins should simply be ignored?
All he’s got – and all he’s ever had – are controversial comments to get a reaction.
Everybody clearly sees his disreputable and dishonest ‘journalism’.
The daily Record’s finest ..and I mean finest , telephonist , EVER …Hotline !
a king prawn Langer !! his predictions had no basis and was just heart over head telling the huns what they wanted to hear , they were lining up on scb to voice their confidence of going through and i honestly asked myself are those people the full bob , i must say though i laughed me arse off it was one of the highlights of the season for me . it was a pity no clue keevins took a dive on the night it would have been the cherry on the cake !! chortle
There ain’t no worse liar than a coffin dodging lair liar – And that’s Keevins to a tee…
153 years ??
They are 12 years 264 days old as of midnight there ya untruthful old undertaker dodging old tramp !
Sad old fuckwit who should be pitied
Has that hateful wee soup taker ever got a prediction right?
How can anyone who claims to be a sports journalist and pundit get so much wrong so much of the time and still be considered good enough to comment?
If that were any other job he would’ve been oot the door yonks ago.
He offers absolutely nothing, except barbed narrative aimed at us.
That’s obviously all that is required at the national broadcaster to get a regular paycheck.
Week in week out he sits there spewing out shite, you cudny mark his neck.