As the fallout from the resolution vote continues, Chris Sutton has used his Record column this morning to hit home a few home truths to those asking for forensic studies carried out.
The voting system was far from perfect but there have been huge deflections away from some of the most basic football facts.
The ex-Celtic striker has wasted no time in pointing these facts out this morning and most of his comments were targeting Steven Gerrard. Here are some of the best bits from Sutton’s piece.
The Englishman thinks the lockdown might have saved Gerrard the sack:
“Steven Gerrard seems unhappy at the process used for bringing an early end to the SPFL season. I don’t know why. It might just have kept him in a job.
With 13 points dropped and a nightmare exit to bottom-of-the-table Hearts in the Scottish Cup, hope and serious ambition among the Rangers fans had turned to despair and the anguish of knowing there was going to be another trophyless season.
Gerrard has to carry the can. He and his players had underperformed to an astounding level.”
The Gers manager gave a video opinion from his house during the week and said over and over that he just wants to see real leadership from the SPFL which Sutton also threw back in his face.
“I’d think there are a few people who feel quite strongly that any manager who comes out and throws his own players under a bus every time they lose a game isn’t one to be calling out others for real leadership.”
For his last point, the former striker predicted a massive gap in the SPFL table if the football had not have come to a grinding halt.
“Given the way points were being shipped by Rangers just before the campaign closed down there is a serious chance the gap at the top could have been more than 20 points by the time the season was ended.”
Whether Celtic would have won their ninth consecutive title by twenty points or not nobody will ever know but there can be no argument that Celtic were Champions in waiting. The Celtic surge from January 2020 could not be stopped domestically.
