Miller for Scotland? Why not?

I mean, you can hardly overlook the credentials of a variety of players from the club who have won the Premiership title without losing a game and had annexed the League Cup without losing a goal throughout the duration of the tournament earlier in the season.

We might have the kind of game which makes us the bonkers capital of the football world but there has to be some room still left for logic and reason, right?

Now before the usual suspects run to Twitter to bombard me with vitriol and venom, let me state that I have already received my voting form from the Scottish Football Writers Association and I have given my support to Scott Sinclair for the Player of the Year award.

Stuart Armstrong was my second choice.

So there.

But Miller's performance as Rangers' captain at Aberdeen on Sunday was nothing short of magnificent.

He is the heartbeat of the team and has been unwaveringly terrific throughout the course of a season which has occasionally bordered on the shambolic where Rangers as a team have been concerned.

Miller is the consummate professional and an inspiration to those about him at Ibrox. His two goals at Pittodrie vouched for a predatory instinct which remains undiminished by age.

And if age has not wearied him then Miller should get a recall to Gordon Strachan's Scotland squad in place of any Player of the Year awards.

Let's be honest, who would you rather have if push got to shove against England in the World Cup qualifier at Hampden on June 10, a guy who got lucky in the team's last game against Slovenia after being booed ON to the park or Miller?

Chris Martin offers nothing more than a sense of adventure when he goes on to the field. He might get lucky again or else he might just get substituted on the grounds that he could play all day, or all night, and not score a goal.

Leigh Griffiths' stats as a Scotland player also put a question mark against his name. Played ten, scored none.

Miller might have gone into retirement or voluntary exile or whatever else you might want to call it where the national team is concerned, but Gordon's not in a position where he can be picky now, is he?

The manager has an open door policy to squad selection which Celtic's captain Scott Brown has recently exploited, and justifiably so.

Miller may also still be in the ridiculous situation of not knowing whether Rangers want him for next season or not, but Scotland's needs are immediate and pressing.

It may be that Kenny is having one, last Indian Summer, lived out against a background of uncertainty and inconsistency at the club he plays for.

But all we need is for him to turn up for his work on one day at Hampden in June and be the non-stop influence for good that he is at Rangers.

The guy is a phenomenon.

How many thirty-seven year olds do their damage when the game is almost over and they have been running themselves to a standstill for the previous eighty minutes?

I'll leave it with you, Gordon, but what might once have seemed like an illogical idea now seems to me to be at least worthy of earnest debate between you and Mark McGhee.

I'll assume you were watching Sunday's game on television before the English football came on so you'll have seen Miller rise to the occasion in the way you used to do when you were on your way to becoming Player of the Year down south at the age of forty.

Age is just a number, right?

I'll also assume Brendan Rodgers was another armchair viewer and that the Celtic manager noticed what appears to be the presence of a discernible pattern here so far as Rangers are concerned.

When Rangers were last in opposition to Celtic the week was spent absorbing headlines about how many goals Rodgers' side would score and the potential for a record margin of victory relative to that particular fixture.

Rangers were also dismissed as being "weak" and cast in the role of hapless victims going to the slaughter house.

Celtic 1 Rangers 1.

In the run-up to Sunday's match the talk was of a fifteen point gap being created between Aberdeen and Rangers and Derek McInnes' side winning an eleventh, consecutive home game to equal a club record set up in the halcyon days of Sir Alex Ferguson at Pittodrie.

Aberdeen 0 Rangers 3.

There is no denying that Pedro Caixinha's side went into Sunday's game on the back of two indifferent performances that led to two unpalatable draws against bottom six teams, Motherwell and Kilmarnock.

Logic 0 Unpredictability 1

I don't pay much heed to people who were born and brought up outside of Glasgow when it comes to being told anything about the rivalry which exists between Celtic and Rangers.

You need to have lived all of your days in Glasgow to understand the enmity which exists between the supporters of both clubs. It permeates all walks of life, all socio-economic brackets and lives in the corridors of political power at the same time.

Even Celtic's Chief Executive, Peter Lawwell, wondered aloud at the weekend if the club's application for planning permission to construct a hotel and a museum on land purchased adjacent to Celtic Park might fall down on the basis that it would be construed to favour his club and do nothing for their rivals at Ibrox.

So Rodgers' noble and well meaning ambition to unite the fans of Celtic and Rangers as part of the legacy he will one day leave behind in Glasgow is just that.

It is noble and well meaning, but also a pipedream.

The manager would be as well understanding this; the Scottish Cup semi-final he faces on April 23 will determine the happiness of every individual who attends the match against Rangers and the hundreds of thousands who will watch on television.

If Celtic win and go on to complete the treble the manager will be another step closer to deification in the eyes of his adoring fans.

If Rangers win and stop the treble being won while perhaps ending Celtic's unbeaten run for the season Brendan will hear about every day throughout the lifetime of the new contract he has signed to manage Celtic until 2021.

I say 'Perhaps' in relation to Celtic's unbeaten run because they have yet to play Ross County in Dingwall before encountering the cup tie.

A sleepy Easter Sunday afternoon in Dingwall, the place where some of Ross County's foreign players have said boredom is the worst part of living there. What could possibly go wrong?

In all probability, nothing at all for Rodgers and his players.

But Kenny Miller's efforts last Sunday should have alerted all of them that you never know the minute in this game.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

• Hugh Keevins