As the off-field war goes on over Scott Brown and the fallout from the Old Firm, Rangers appear ready to draw a line.
Celtic, however, are still losing it over charges brought against their captain. But it’s their distraction, not ours.
And in the lead up to the next Old Firm at Ibrox, the Rangers team must move on from all of this nonsense. They need to focus on beating Brown on the pitch.
The thing about Scott Brown is that he’s held up as some kind of Scottish football icon. A hero for the national team and one of the best domestic captains the game has seen.
The truth is, he’s only a slight evolution on the traditional hammer throwing Scotland midfielder. A proudly gruntish player, who has admittedly shown flashes of being a good one.
Scott Brown played Rangers players
That he’s even mentioned in the same breath as Barry Ferguson is cringeworthy, that he’s heralded more than the likes of Paul Lambert at Celtic Park is even more so. He’s the leader of a Celtic team that has had no challenge.
And yet, he played us like a fiddle. We succumbed to all of this off-the-ball rubbish.
The fact is his bark is worse than his bite. That’s why he reduces the game to these niggles, to these wind-ups and to these “incidents”. Of which there are plenty which has gone unnoticed.
He’s compensating for something, and it’s not hard to see what. By indulging in all this crap, the side gives Brown and the Celtic support what they are desperate for. Validation for their behaviour.
When Celtic came to Ibrox in December, Brown was humiliated. He was silenced and this was his retribution.
When Celtic come to Ibrox in the next month or so, Rangers can get theirs. And the only way to do it is by winning on the pitch.
