The four stages of Ryan Kent’s summer of discontent

The rebellion

Sometimes you have to rebel, you have to fight the good fight to get what you want. The Beastie Boys fought for their right to party. Kent fought for his right to play.

The phrase player rebellion isn’t really a nice one, and yet that’s what it was reported that Kent did. I can sympathise with him here, and whether it was that or Rangers getting desperate and magically finding the money we won’t know. But something worked.

Rebellions hardly ever finish the right way. Bobby Duncan’s ended with him being jeered all the way to Serie A, and he probably won’t even get any games there either.

Kent feels different. We all know that he deserves first team football, isn’t good enough to stay at the club, publicly conducted himself fine and now can carry on with his life. That’s all good.

It’s always interesting to see what happens at the end of a successful rebellion. If films have any grounding in fact, not much. But Kent got his move, and now we move to the fairytale ending.