THE first call is the deepest. But I don’t want to talk about it.
Oh who am I kidding? I was only joking.
Let’s face it, it’s not every day you just happen to pick up the Daily Record bat-phone and hear
Rod Stewart going full
Celtic Da on the other end of the line.
Well, you know what they say, some guys have all the luck.
And so it came to pass that this morning football’s favourite Hotline just happened to take arguably its greatest ever call from a Knight of the Realm, Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
Calling from his holiday home in England shortly before boarding a private jet for a gig in Aberdeen, the great man said: “I read the
Record every day. If I can’t get the paper then I catch up on line and this morning I saw a story about some chart which ranks the most successful football teams in the world.
“The guy who wrote it said that
Rangers were far ahead of Celtic. But when I looked up the chart this morning it was the other way around.
“It starts off with the likes of Manchester City and Barcelona and then all the way down it’s got Celtic and Rangers. But, in actual fact, Celtic are above Rangers.
"Now, how they work out this chart I don’t know. It’s all bulls***.
“But I just thought there was a little error there that I would like to correct on behalf of Celtic!”
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OK, some quick housekeeping at this point.
Turns out both Rod and the
Record on-line team were actually correct. At the time of publication - on Monday afternoon - Rangers did top their old rivals in the latest Global Club Soccer Rankings, released ahead of the new domestic campaign.
But those positions flipped overnight - leaving Rod as mystified as us as the countdown to the new season.
What a palaver. This old heart of mine can hardly cope with the excitement.
Rod went on: “I must say, I’m looking forward to the challenge next year. Rangers seem to have about 200 players and I don’t know how they’re going to boil them down to 11.
“But I’m certainly looking forward to the challenge next year from Rangers. It’s good for the Rangers supporters. It’s wonderful to have this level of excitement and competition again.
“Now I need to leave for a concert in Aberdeen in a couple of hours where I’m told it’s p*****g down with rain!”