Barry Ferguson made a despairing plea to get the Ibrox manager’s job on a permanent basis yesterday.
Following a 1-1 draw with Celtic which extended the club record of seven home matches without a win the former Alloa boss was in defiant mode as he faced up to his post-match media duties.
In two weeks time, three more matches it should all be over for Ferguson but he has no intention of handing the brogues and blazer over quietly then concentrating his energies on a weekly column for the Daily Record spiced up by appearances on Go Radio.
Having had a taste for the job Ferguson wants to continue into next season with midweek talks held with incoming Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell.
With no sign of Andrew Cavenagh and the Takeover Lads at Ibrox yesterday the club faces continuing uncertainty with the second round Champions League qualifiers coming fast on July 22/23 and 29/30.
A new Revolution is required headed up by an exciting recruitment drive that will bring in an flux of star names while the serial losers accumulated over the last few seasons are all sold off to fund the rebuild.
It is all far fetched stuff, sticking with that theme Sky Sports reports Ferguson saying:
Everybody’s got an opinion, I don’t care about people’s opinion, I know I can do the job.
I know I’ve got a real good staff behind me. I’ve been asked this question two or three weeks in a row, I think it’s clear, it doesn’t scare me one single bit.
I know there’s a hell of a lot of work to be done, everybody knows that. And that’s a challenge that I would meet head on. And I know I would change it.
Ferguson’s spell as interim manager finishes on May 17 following the matches against Aberdeen, Dundee United and Hibs.
If Ferguson doesn’t get the job his presence in the media and as a club ambassador will make life very difficult for the new boss- and provide the safety net of a ready-made caretaker when the inevitable autumn sacking cycle gets underway.
Wee Barry is hurting ?
He knows he can do the job but is yet to win at Ibrox.
It’s better with him there, you know he actually hurts while the last few didn’t care.
— TheMaestro (@Les_Maestro) May 4, 2025
I pray to the God almighty, that the PFA’s ‘whistling and pointing aimlessly ‘champion 2025 ,Barry’ Yosser Hughes’Ferguson gets the Ibrokes gig. Him and his staunch side kicks are pewer
comedy gold!
HH
“We’re simply the best” 🙂
Why does wee bawwy always look like he’s staring over ur shoulder at something 3 miles away?
Coke mate, its the coke.
I think if the fakeover turns out to be illusory – as looks increasingly likely – then Buckfast Barry might find himself confirmed as permanent in the dugout after all – due to lack of other options. Taking over a ‘big name club’ that is now on the bones of its arse financially only attracts the worst kind of dreamers, fantasists and crackpots – people like Pedro Caixinha. Just keeping a chest-beating, brogue-wearing muppet in there will satisfy the most vocal elements of the klanbase and if he has any sort of strategy at all it will to go “the jock wallace route” and pack the side with brutish Scottish hammer-throwers and train them like commandos so they can kick the opposition off the park. Not clever but relatively cheap and likely to appease elements of their followers and it might even bring them closer to challenging us than people think because their problem this season has been throwing points away against every other team in the league. Solve that issue and the gap is no longer double digits……
Mrs Ferguson’s husband and his dream team of Doddsy , wee Terry and Greegs are the stuff that dreams are made of ! The problem is where do they go when they get to the end of their dreams ? The rapidly dwindling daily Record ..the Scottish BBC and erm , wherever..I suppose !
Its actually beyond embarressing now. The guy in the stand taking notes has more chance warnock is it? And what the fuck is he doing taking notes?
Would be hilarious if he goes through the time there at Liebrox without winning a game !