While taking his seat in the media hall in Celtic Park after his team's dramatic victory on Sunday, the name of Barry Ferguson was still being sung with taste for retirement in favor of the Rangers who were still present in a corner of the ground.
After having presided over a first victory for his club in the East End of Glasgow for five years, it was difficult to think at a more timely time for an interim manager to make a claim for taking a job permanently.
Even before the question was inevitably asked and made, however, you knew there was no snowball opportunity in the hell of the former pattern describing his credentials.
As was the case in his first press conference at the end of last month, as has been the way before and after each game since then, Ferguson set aside the emotional attraction of leading his heroes of childhood and stayed at the time.
The wild horses are not going to drag it along the way of what could happen next.
Barry Ferguson enjoys the 3-2 victory of the Rangers over Celtic in Parkhead
The US health tycoon. And the possible investor of the Andrew Cavenagh Rangers were in Celtic Park
While his private desire to make the arrangement permanent can be taken as read, it is sincerely little that he is won by him declaring so much in public.
This is determined by matters inside and outside the field.
With the rangers on the edge of an acquisition of an American consortium, there are many possibilities for Ferguson to move forward to a vacancy that does not exist.
When 49ers Enterprises completed his purchase of Leeds United in 2023, his first act was to appoint Daniel Farke as manager.
It is completely conceivable then that forag Marathhe, the president of Elnd Road, who is also part of the group, who takes control in Ibrox, already has his own man in mind. In general, it is what happens when there is a change of property.
Ferguson is also very aware that he is being tried by game by game.
Sunday was a great pen on his cap, but, if we know one thing about this rangers team, they are tremendously inconsistent.
Already this season, they have lost at home against Queen's Park, Motherwell and St Mirren, but have defeated Celtic, Fenerbahce and Niza.
It is unfathomable, simply beyond all logic.
Then they play Dundee after international rest. There is really no result that it is surprising that day.
Ferguson had the right to savor the moment over the weekend, but he was also right to see the result in the context of what had come before.
His team only played during the half in Rugby Park and did not appear at all against the Steelmen.
They were outstanding in Türkiye, but they did not reach the heights on the return section before keeping the nerves on penalties.
From one game to another, you don't know what you are getting. In the midst of the euphoria of prevailing against Celtic, the man to the helm would not have forgotten any of that.
However, you can still understand the growing sense of belief that many fans have in it.
The interim boss Barry Ferguson gives instructions of his team in Celtic Park
Manager Celta Brendan Rodgers has lost only three times in 22 Old Firm Derbies
In September, the Rangers gave an excuse for a performance, since they were sweeping 3-0 in Parkhead.
While Philippe Clemente stamped incoherently about the shooting in the target, the Iracios supporters gathered on the ground to clarify their feelings.
The performance and emotion of the weekend were one million miles that day. Ferguson does not deserve little credit on the other hand in that.
The idea that the panacea for the club's many evils was simply to designate a series of former players was subjected to much contempt, however, the commitment and rangers that exuded in Parkhead suggested that it can take it a lot.
However, there was more to admire the performance of visitors than the will to make blocks and tacle and run until their legs could not give more.
Against Fenerbahce by José Mourinho, Ferguson got his tactic place. Those who believed that a form of 5-4-1 indicated an intention to hit on the scotters and hit the break against Celtic were wrong again.
The Rangers pressed Celtic in the field believing that Brendan Rodgers's side would make elementary mistakes. This faith was totally justified.
Ferguson took the Rangers to an impressive Europa League victory over Fenerbahce
With a close projection of the center of the four -men field, Ferguson players worked as derviches to close the space and close the pass lines.
The extra body on the back said the three Celtic strikers fought to make progress. The replacement of Nicolas Kuhn in the half time said a lot.
The only certainty in the second half was that Celtic would improve simply because they could not be worse.
While the absence of Callum McGregor prevented by the lesion was indisputably a factor in an exhibition of speed, fluidity and intelligence of the game, which alone could not completely explain a truly desperate show.
With the rangers starting to feel the effects of his 120 minutes against the Turks, an improved Celtic side recovered one through Daizen Maeda and then equaled with 16 minutes when Reo Hatate hit.
Rodgers, with only two losses in previous 21 derbies, would have imagined his chances of seeing the completed work, but the rangers under Ferguson found something in the most difficult moments to be late and snatch a famous victory through Hamza Igamane.
While the poverty of Celtic's performance in a second consecutive derby was surprising, he had to deliver it to the interim boss. He obtained everything well in the day.
The exhibitions of Nicolas Raskin and Mohamed Diomande, the scorers of the opening objectives, were overflowing with the type of intensity it would have demanded.
Three days after seeing the special, this was another great result to savor, one in the eye for those who questioned the wisdom of throwing the keys until the end of the season.
If you clean your desk tomorrow, you will know that you achieved something that was beyond the powers of Giovanni Van Bruckhorst, Michael Beale and Clemente.
In recent years, as Celtic has continued to dominate Scottish football, the victories of the Rangers in Parkhead have been as rare as the teeth of the chicken.
When changing that narrative, it is inconceivable that Ferguson does not have at least given the possible owners of the club something to chew.
If Sunday's victory no longer places it in dispute to obtain the long -term concert, what is required?
The Rangers were 13 points behind Celtic at the point where Ferguson entered.
With eight games for the end, that is still the size of the gap. A victory in the final derby in Ibrox after the division will not prevent Celtic from finishing a title 13 in 14 years, although a single figure deficit could suggest a change in impulse.
Nico Williams and Athletic Bilbao are the following for the Rangers in the Europa League
The quarterfinals of the Europa League against Athletic Bilbao feels more likely to define the Ferguson mandate and dictate if it remains in situ beyond the current campaign.
He gave himself to a small hyperbole when he said that Fenerbahce was a significant improvement on any side of the rangers who had faced in the tournament to date, but the men of the Basque country are certainly worthy of that award.
His weekend victory in Seville ballast his position in fourth place in the league. With the incredible talent of Nico Williams, Ernesto Valverde's team hopes to compete completely in the final that his San Mames stadium will organize on May 21.
If Ferguson broken down that script to ensure that the clear blue legions descend to the city for the second time in so many months, those questions related to their future in the rangers will surely not be necessary.