I sense a no confidentiality clause in Rangers flop's pay-off as Mr Excuses declines words of advice for Russell Martin

Daily Record

a day ago

I assume there was no confidentiality clause in Philippe Clement's pay-off deal with Rangers.
The Belgian left no stone unturned when it came to self-protection in his radio interview last weekend.
The board showed him no patience. Directors listened too much to fans.
Players cost him the title .. on it went. You wondered if Philippe might end by saying: 'It wisnae me.'
The only bit he got right was when he was asked to offer words of advice to successor Russell Martin.
The man who could empty Ibrox with his baffling tactics declined the request quicker than you could say Queen's Park and went back to counting his redundancy money.
Meanwhile, The countdown is on for Steve Clarke.
His SFA employers say he deserves the chance to see if he can take Scotland to next year's World Cup.
The extent to which the manager has earned that generosity will start to be measured when Clarke's team plays the first group-stage qualifier in Denmark in September.
Jose Mourinho was the self-proclaimed Special One. Jurgen Klopp was the Normal One.
We've got the Surly One.
Before his side took four goals off the Liechtenstein team occupying 205th place in the World rankings, Clarke said: 'Everybody likes to be loved, but I don't. My character is quite suited to being the guy who gets all the stick.'
That's handy, then. But I looked at Wales' classic, seven-goal thriller with Belgium immediately after our match finished on Monday evening.
You couldn't help but envy the way a country even smaller than Scotland went about their business under Craig Bellamy.
They lost but gave it their all and scored three times. It's the kind of approach we'd like to see – but probably won't – in Copenhagen. Last Tuesday was the 27th anniversary of Scotland's opening match of the World Cup against Brazil in Paris.
A night of heroic failure, admittedly, but we went out on our feet as opposed to our knees.
No manager has taken Scotland to the finals of that tournament since and it will require deep reserves of determination and courage if we are to revise the course of history.
Clarke gets praised for reaching back-to-back Euros but, when we got there, we didn't set up to make sure we stayed there.
Remember the game we had to win against Hungary to stay in the Euros in Germany last summer?
It was all or nothing – and we delivered the second one.
No-one mentioned going gung-ho. Nobody said throw caution to the winds. But, given the nucleus of top-class talents at our disposal, couldn't we try harder to shape our own destiny?
I've always been told management isn't a personality contest. But it doesn't have to be about us and them, either.
The guy who gets all the stick could try to meet us halfway.