After almost 10 months of spilling blood, sweat, tears – and the throwing of all number of tantrums – today, at just around lunchtime, Scottish football’s most incompatible neighbours will be shoehorned back onto the same green space and told to settle their scores once and for all. It is unlikely to be an occasion for the fain-hearted or for anyone else lacking the emotional intelligence to fully grasp the scale of its significance.
He claims to thrive on the madness of it all. But it takes a toll nonetheless. And Clement may not feel completely acclimatised until he’s gotten more used to the quirks of the locals. But there is no question he understands precisely what is expected of him by the blue half of the city which is probably why he’s appeared to be slightly rattled by it all over the last few weeks – having watched so many of his players struggle to get on the same page.
By choosing that particular moment to turn on his own club’s supporters and gesture that they have been too critical of his performance level, Silva exposed himself as being both completely deluded and astoundingly selfish. To put it simply, Silva is displaying dangerous, loose cannon traits of behaviour and he can’t be trusted to put his team first when it matters most of all in front of 60,000 Celtic fans who’ll be out to test the limits of his fraying temperament. They know an easy target when they see one around this fixture and they’ll view the increasingly erratic Silva as a red card waiting to happen.
Ironically, one possible solution – and perhaps the best available – would be to axe Silva completely and deploy Cantwell on the left-hand side of his attack in a positional switch which would also make room for the inclusion of Tom Lawrence. Most important of all, though, with a number of other key men, like John Lundstram for example, already planning for a fresh start somewhere else next season, Clement must work out which of these players he trusts to remain fully focused on the job in hand.
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