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

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