No fee required, Gordon, advice is free

Broad shoulders, big heart, self-belief, determination and the respect of his peers. Ach, I suppose Steven Pressley will do.

It’s times like these when you sit back smugly and are glad that you were so clever as to point to the man who became your latest signing as an example to your central defenders. To be fair, Gary Caldwell is obviously a discerning reader and he was sorting out his game quite nicely until knee-knockerooney afflicted him.

And clearly Wee Gordon knows how to take a telling too as it surely can be no coincidence that the wise words published on this site pre-empted the signing that Rangers were too skint or too stupid to make.

True, Caldwell has greater potential, and Stephen McManus is a very similar player to Elvis but you really can’t have too many players who know how to say: “ach, gie’s the ba’”.

That actually makes Celtic’s injury crisis appear as something of a blessing in disguise. Sure, it’s bad form to slag a player who has just suffered a serious injury but then again, Bobo Balde started the bad form and was paid sweetly for it.

So welcome to the club, Steven, we can think of nothing but good surrounding the move – what’s that? he played for Rangers? ach, we were aw young an’ glaikit once – but so long as you stick to what has made you perhaps the most admired pro in the Scottish game over the past 12 months, you’ll do just fine. Enjoy.

Now Gordy, see yon Russell Anderson……