Those of us of a certain age remember the early years of Tony Blair’s New Labour government where one of the plans to cut the dole queues was to open up education to the masses.
It ended up with a flood of folk going to college and university that might not have traditionally ended up there.
It also led to some pretty wacky courses. There were HNDs in surfing, diplomas in circus training and even other Mickey Mouse degrees like, erm, journalism.
But maybe in years to come there will be entire studies devoted to this cracker – Rangers FC, Season 2024/25.
Good luck to any students attempting to pass it though. It makes Stephen Hawking’s PHD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge look like a travel and tourism class at the John Wheatley College in Easterhouse.
This campaign has been completely unfathomable for us in the present, goodness knows how scruffy students will work it out in years to come.
There’s just no way to find an equation to fit that explains how a Rangers team can go from being honking at home to superb in Europe on a regular basis.
Exasperated Gers fans can protest one week and then celebrate just days later. They must be exhausted.
But one thing is for sure, the Europa League has been a superb distraction and it might not be over yet.
After keeping Athletic Bilbao at bay for about 138 minutes the other night against all the odds, you wouldn’t bet against another epic rearguard action in Spain to see them off, perhaps on penalties or something.
Yet there is still a feeling all of this Euro fun is just taking attention to the real biggest game of the season – the proposed takeover.
If it wasn’t for this Euro run, the shift in ownership would be very much front and centre for supporters.
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