THEY might as well rush out a DVD of Saturday’s action at Ibrox and call it I Love 1992. We had lusty proclamations of allegiance to Walter Smith’s ‘army’, a 5-0 thumping of a hapless Dundee United, and Super Ally in shorts. The feelgood factor was back after six months of misery with that inscrutable Frenchman.
How very, very shortsighted. So Rangers will probably finish in the top two now. Given that Barry Ferguson’s wage packet is more than most other SPL team’s first 11 put together, that should be the natural order of things (the triumphalism of Rangers fans in seeing their team put five past such financially mismatched opposition borders on the imbecilic).
Had he stayed at Ibrox, Paul le Guen may have fallen farther into the hole he found himself in. But then again, he might have turned Rangers into an elegant, atypically Scottish team winning international kudos – and Rangers’ UEFA Cup form offered a glimmer of just such a possibility.
As it is, Rangers fans will just have to content themselves with brutish domination of wee Scottish teams and ritual humiliation against the European big boys. It really will be the 1990s all over again.