Gers flops' Euro masterclasses will test students

THOSE of us of a certain age remember the early years of Tony Blair's New Labour government where one of the plans to cut the dole queues was to open up education to the masses.

- MICHAEL GANNON

It ended up with a flood of folk going to college and uni that may not have traditionally ended up there.

It also led to some pretty wacky courses - there were HNDs in surfing, diplomas in circus training and other Mickey Mouse degrees like, erm, journalism.

But maybe in years to come there will be entire studies devoted to this cracker - Rangers' Season 2024/25.

Good luck to any students attempting to pass it though. It makes Stephen Hawking's PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge look like a travel and tourism class at the John Wheatley College in Easterhouse.

This campaign has been completely crazy for us in the present, goodness knows how scruffy students will work things out in years to come.