DAVID McCRACKEN, captain of Championship Falkirk, is surely now a shoe-in for Player of the Year.

Storm Doris meant he along with thousands of others were left stranded on the M80 as Scotland suffered its first snow fall in the country’s history, which caught out everyone.

McCracken realised after a while that he wasn’t getting to training that morning, and so jumped out the warm car into the cold to make the most of the situation.

The defender is also a personal trainer and able to put together an exercise programme.

“Use your time effectively,” McCracken wrote on his Instagram, alongside a video of him leaping and stretching in the snow. “So stuck in a massive jam on way to training, rather than just sit why not get out and get some glute work done.”

There’s real man for you.
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The news of Celtic building a hotel complex had the diary’s memory box drifting back to 2004 when Rangers were, cough, going to do the same thing only bigger.

These were heady times. US billionaire Sheldon G Adelson, who owned the Las Vegas Sands empire, even received approval from Glasgow City Council for a £200m project at Ibrox.

There was going to be housing, an entertainment complex with a casino, hotel, conference facilities and a leisure centre.

Was there even talk of the casino being able to float or did I make that up? Let’s be honest, everything else was a nonsense so, yeah, the casino could float. Or was it hover?

Anyway, David Murray, Rangers chairman at the time said: "We are delighted that the city council has approved our vision for a world-class entertainment complex.

"The decision puts Glasgow significantly ahead of the rest of the UK in the race to secure the regeneration that a regional casino licence will bring.

"This development will bring so much to the community around Ibrox, not just in terms of better housing and leisure facilities but also through employment opportunities.

"The creation of our vision will put Glasgow and Ibrox firmly on the map as a top-class leisure and tourism destination."

To the surprise of nobody suffering from a serious head injury, none of this happened. Ladbrokes put in another shop but it’s hardly the same thing.

With such an expensive, unworkable and frankly laughable idea to make Paisley Road West the Vegas Strip of Glasgow believed by many inside Ibrox to be viable, it does make you wonder how that club got itself into so much bother when there were clearly a lot of sensible people around.

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Rangers are deid. Everyone knows this. Celtic refuse to call it ‘The Old Firm’ preferring to say the ‘Glasgow Derby.’

But that message has not sunk in to everyone at the club. At least those in the marketing department.

A three-game package in one of the posher parts of the stadium is now on sale, guaranteeing fans tickets, plus food and drink, for the home matches against Hamilton, Rangers and Partick Thistle.

The price for this VIP package; just £835 plus the VAT. It does seem a lot to pay for games against two relegation candidates and a brand new club.  

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Staying with Celtic and their superstar striker Moussa Dembele was linked with another club this week.

This time is was Real Madrid, or as one Bolivian newspaper had it: Real Madrid set to buy Moussa Dembele from Emilio Izaguirre.

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Our chief sports writer Stewart ‘kiss of death’ Fisher has been at it again.

Last week we gave him permission to drive south to speak with Scott Arfield at Burnley. The next day his club were put out of the FA Cup by non-league Lincoln City.

Then he spent some time with Owen Coyle who just about saw out the weekend before being sacked by Blackburn Rovers.

The Fish did provide some sparkling copy from both interviews and tells us that his one-to-one with Claudio Ranieri is a belter.

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The sight of Rory McIlroy partnering Donald Trump on the golf course turned many off the Northern Irishman. The diary is not sure why. They are, after all, soulmates.

Both have silly hair, a bad attitude towards women and have made lots of money for doing very little.

McIlroy had to say yes. Sure, Trump has mocked the disabled, discriminated against race and religion while putting together the most right wing government since old Adolf was in his shiny boots pomp – but at least the President hasn’t done anything really bad like cheating at golf.

 When Cooper was asked by Q magazine in 2012 to name the worst celebrity golf cheater, he replied, “I played with Donald Trump one time. That’s all I’m going to say.”

So the Don even cheats at golf. What a swine. We hear his favourite part of the game is his Putin.