Rangers moral victories don't exist as Philippe Clement babbling shows he's succumbed to the nonsense - Hugh Keevins

I have never subscribed to the notion that you have to believe everything a manager says for public consumption.

Having a mind of your own is essential to tell the difference between black and white when that judgment has to be made. Take Rangers manager Philippe Clement as an example. Whatever words of scorn and condemnation he wishes to use over the postponement of Wednesday night’s game against Dundee, I will accept them without reservation. Every last syllable.

But that unquestioning approach doesn’t extend to Philippe’s flights of fantasy following the Old Firm game last weekend. What have we done to him in the space of six months? Clement came here as a man of sophistication with multiple title wins in Belgium and a spell at Monaco in France adding to his continental lustre. Now he’s babbling on about people having different coloured glasses. Or telling us he has it on good authority that Sky Sports' referee in residence Dermot Gallagher is more of a Celtic supporter than he is a neutral observer.

Young Kenneth Miller on the opposite page believes in the abstract. He’s constructed a case for the introduction of moral victories into our game. There’s no such thing. You win, lose or draw. There’s no other category based on morality.

Have we not got enough trouble already with folk in the VAR room guessing whether or not a goal’s been scored without going down that road? Incidentally, I won’t take umbrage over anything relative to the Old Firm game. I’m too old to jump to conclusions as a form of exercise.

I will simply sit in my rocking chair and ask young Kenneth a question. Would Walter Smith, a man we both greatly admired, ever have uttered the words “moral victory”?

At the end of a game that left Gers with one