Artur Boruc’s fight with Aiden McGeady was allegedly pre-meditated. A guy has come off the training ground, something has gotten into his head and it’s cooking away in there. Boruc has gone into the shower, wanting more retribution.
I have never been with a group of players, when there was a fight that continued to roll on. Normally, there are a few punches thrown, you end up rolling around on the floor and it’s finished. Alright, so you may not talk to each other for a couple of hours, but then somebody cracks a joke and it’s all over. That, in my experience, is how it’s always been.
The incident can’t be good for the club. This sort of situation doesn’t do anybody any good or get anyone’s adrenalin going in a positive way. All it serves to do is divide people, especially if they saw a pre-meditated attack on somebody.
In all my time in football, I’ve never seen that – somebody going away and thinking about it, before administering an attack.
Nobody should have a divine right to be in a football team, and Boruc should be no different. For me, it’s down to how you perform. If someone’s not performing, no matter how big of a star they are, they should come out of the side.
The back-up goalkeeper must of a standard that Gordon feels means he could come in, whether it’s a Champions League game or an SPL game. You shouldn’t have a number two that you feel couldn’t do that. If a goalkeeper is out of form, you take him out of the side, even if he’s worth 10 million. It can be any position and sometimes it can even be your captain – a skipper doesn’t have a divine right to be in a side either. It’s the old adage really: nobody is bigger than a football club.
Looking ahead to this weekend’s Old Firm clash, Rangers should have confidence.
Daniel Cousin was the man on the day back at the end of August, when Rangers got four at Celtic. He battered Celtic all day.
But although Cousin’s gone, the win will still be fresh in the minds of the Rangers players – that they are capable of winning at Celtic Park.
Rangers will probably play with just one up front at the weekend, but they know how to get results with that formation. They played with it for most of last season and they got wins all over the place, including in Europe. So Walter will be comfortable that they can go and get a result, whether it’s the three points or one point.