If youz were to ask Kenny Dalglish what Kenny Dalglish thinks of the SFA shortlist for the new Scotland manager, I think Kenny Dalglish would say Kenny Dalglish is confused. Never never land for lost Bhoy Hen NO shortage of surprises surrounding Sellic over the past week but perhaps the biggest one was the "offishal" news that Henrik Larsson, the Magnificent Seven, the King of Kings. would NOT be coming back to the club. Shockerooney!

And there was everybody thinking the deal was done and dusted especially after Henrik was spotted all over Glasgow last week even though he was actually in South Africa at the time.

Just goes to show, you should never underestimate the powerful effect of wishful thinking - or the hallucinatory affect of too much bevvy.

Other surprises included Bobo nearly being away to Bolton, Koki Mizuno arriving in Glasgow - nice anorak - and Coelho heading back to Brazil.

Hold on, that wusnae really a surprise, was it? There was also no shortage of really good transfer rumeros, the most interesting one being Daniel van Buyten of Bayern Munich who is no doubt a good, good freund of Alan McInally.

If Sellic are really serious about the big, Belgian six foot five/six/seven/eight - depending on which paper you read - defender they'll have to move quickly for him. Ten clubs in England, five in Italy, three in Spain, six in Turkey, four in France and two in Antarctica are all interested in him. Or do you think that could just be the agent talking him up?

Nah, that wouldn't be a surprise. Fixture farce is so bog standard

Let's be honest, the way things look, the outcome of Rangers' entire season could be in jeopardy and the reason for this perilous state of affairs can be summed up in just one word - fixture backlog.

It really is starting to get pure mental. How mental? Well, we heard the next Old Firm match has been rescheduled for the second week of the Glasgow Fair. The backlog has got fans asking: "How much of the £700m for the proposed New Ibrox is for drainage?"

Alan Hutton resisted all efforts to force - sorry, persuade - him to go to Spurs for an exceedingly large amount of money which could have been converted into a formidable transfer war chest'. However, motivated by the lack of a transfer windfall, Martin Bain has been working to secure an alternative source of transfer funds and may have found it in Walkers Crisps.

No, it's not a sponsorship deal, Gers have offered Walkers the use of their pitch for planting potatoes (above).

It is interesting the Teds are again being linked, albeit tentatively, with Sellic target James McFadden.

How seriously can we take this interest? We reckon if self-confessed Sellic fan Faddy, appears at Celtic Park in a big, stripey jumper proclaiming Sellic is the only team I've ever wanted to play for' he'll be a Ted the following day.

We keep hearing a short list of four wis drawn up and the names Tommy Burns, Graeme Souness, Mark McGhee, George Burley and Billy Davies - before he chucked it - being linked to it but the thing is, that wis five.

Then official approaches were made to the clubs of Tommy Burns, Mark McGhee and George Burley so that's got folk saying, haud on well, does that mean the five men on the four man shortlist is actually only three'? Well, actually, naw, it disnae.

See, according to the rules of tapping, as explained in the Wee Red Book, you cannae make any unofficial approach to any employee of a club until you've made an official approach to make your unofficial approach official.

But Souness and Davies are unemployed so they don't need official permission to talk to them, they can just grab them next time they're coming out the job centre. Clear as mud.

Is Kenny Dalglish unhappy that Kenny Dalgish isnae on the shortlist? If you were to ask me, I would say, speaking for me, myself, personally I would have to say aye'.

Managing your country is the greatest honour for a manager, especially one who comes from a country and even more especially if it leads to you landing a better paid club job elsewhere.

The SFA have a big task on their hands. Gordon Smith has to get this right, he has to make sure that he and his chinas pick the right man, the man to lead us not to victory but to glorious failure and that's why it needs to be a Scotsman for the job.

Only a Scotsman can know how important it is that no matter how close we come to achieving our goal we MUST always - in the end - come away with hee-haw. And to be fair, Burns, McGhee, Burley... I think there is a pretty good chance a Scot will get the job.

The Scottish Cup, due to its characteristic unpredictability had me really excited at the weekend. I just couldnae predict whit match wis going to be called off next.

I felt sorry for the Partick Thistle and Dunfermline fans over the late call off at Firhill.

I mean, seriously, what's the point in having undersoil heating if you don't check there are enough shillings in the metre to keep it going? They poor Pars fans came all the way from Fife whilst the Thistle fans had come all the way from the Ubiquitous Chip aff Byres Road. Seriously, though, something has to be done about late postponements. The Elgin v Albion Rovers match was called off at 1pm on Saturday.

In making that decision was any consideration given to the three Albion Rovers fans who had already set out for the game? Aberdeen FC were said to be delighted after Jimmy Calderwood signed a three year extension to his contract at Pittodrie.

But we bet you not as much as the cities tanning salons. Talk about pride? We don't often feature tennis but this week we thought we'd make an exception. After all the hype, the predictions and forecasts over what he was going to do, Scotland's Andy Murray crashes out in the first leg of the Australian Open. Now, we ask you, how Scottish is that?