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Wilfried Nancy(Image: Kirk O’Rourke\/Rangers FC\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\nOur man’s insider was spot on with his prediction after the Hoops were beaten at Motherwell earlier this week<\/p>\n
13:33, 04 Jan 2026Updated 19:47, 04 Jan 2026<\/p>\n
Wilfried Nancy(Image: Kirk O’Rourke\/Rangers FC\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n
The time was three minutes past ten o\u2019clock on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The text message was from an impeccable source.<\/p>\n
It came from the man who told me that Motherwell would beat Celtic at Fir Park<\/a> because, stylistically, they would simply have too much for their visitors.<\/p>\n That was why I wrote in this column last weekend that I had it on good authority Jens Berthel Askou <\/a>would get the better of Wilfried Nancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fifteen minutes after the final whistle had blown in North Lanarkshire the good authority messaged me to say: \u201cI told you.\u201d<\/p>\n Andy Halliday<\/a>, my sometime radio colleague and Motherwell player, was seeing out the old year by proving good-natured banter was still an allowable, and welcome, pastime.<\/p>\n How welcome it was to have a smile put on my face at that precise moment was something Andy couldn\u2019t possibly have known about.<\/p>\n Earlier in the day I had attended the funeral of a six-year-old child, the son of my wife\u2019s niece.<\/p>\n The boy was someone this newspaper had tried to help by increasing awareness of his fight for survival, highlighting the need to raise \u00a3250,000 towards his essential cancer treatment.<\/p>\n A week before he was due to go to America for the pioneering surgery that would have given him a chance of getting better, the child relapsed and his condition worsened.<\/p>\n The moral of the story is about perspective.<\/p>\n Keeping your priorities in order means you can have a good laugh, or even a good argument, about football while understanding it is not a matter of life or death.<\/p>\n Not even remotely close to it.<\/p>\n Follow Record Sport on Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> for all of the up-to-the minute breaking news, video and audio on the SPFL, the Scotland national team and beyond.<\/p>\n You can get all the news you need on our dedicated Celtic<\/a> page and sign up to our newsletters<\/a> to make sure you never miss a beat throughout the season.<\/p>\n We’re also WhatsApp where we bring all the latest breaking news and transfer gossip directly to you phone. Join our Celtic community here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tune in to Hotline Live<\/a> every Sunday to Thursday and have your say on the biggest issues in Scottish football and listen to Record Sport’s newest podcast, Game On<\/a>, every Friday for your sporting fix, all in bitesize chunks.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_halliday.png\")
Andy Halliday <\/p>\n