SORRY CELTIC BARRY FERGUSON’S RANGERS JUST SET A NEW RECORD YOU’LL NEVER MATCH
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
We’ve read plenty of stories in the press over the past few years about the various world records and historic accolades Rangers have magically achieved despite being only 13 years old.
And this weekend, with Barry Ferguson as their proud and staunch leader, Rangers set another new record that few other teams have matched, and Celtic almost certainly never will.
Barry Ferguson: Reaching Levels of Incompetence Celtic will Never Attain
In the entire history of Scottish football, including both versions of Rangers, the longest losing streak Celtic have ever managed at Ibrox is 4 games.
With yesterday’s 2-0 capitulation to Hibs, alongside losses in their 4 previous home games, Barry Ferguson has now taken that record, and, with his staunch brown brogues, crushed it into dust.
Yes. Rangers have now lost 5 games in a row at Ibrox. A feat that, in all of footballing history, Celtic, Falkirk, St. Mirren and even the mighty Hamilton Academicals have never achieved.
Credit to the Ibrox crowd though, they didn’t do walking away.
When that second Hibs goal flew into the net, I swear saw most of them running, or at the very least waddling, towards the nearest available exits.
Be careful Celtic fans, let's not get too carried away.
I offer a word of caution. Don’t overdose on the Bluenose tears just yet. There may well be more to come.
If Athletic Club Bilbao win on Thursday, then Dundee, Kilmarnock, Motherwell and Inverness Caley will also join this glorious list of teams yet to achieve as enduring a losing streak at Ibrox as Rangers.
Thanks to ACSOM and Celtic Down Under’s own Sean Connolly for bringing these truly unprecedented statistics to my attention.
But here’s a sobering thought. One club In Scotland has almost exceeded Rangers levels of ineptitude in recent weeks.
Since the beginning of February, one Scottish club has lost 8 games, conceded 34 goals, scored just 6 and sacked their manager.
However, despite these set-backs, somehow, in that time, Queens Park still found a way to win at Ibrox!
Yes, to quote the great man himself, Barry Ferguson, I guess, like Hibs yesterday, Queens Park must have just been “more hungrier” on that day.
Meanwhile, if Celtic win today and next weekend, we’ll be champions.
As I’ve said before, Rangers will enjoy the odd win over us here and there, but that’s as good as it gets for them. We have the better players, the better manager and the better support.
We will, in all likelihood never be able to scale the dizzying heights of utter mediocrity this magnificently inept Rangers side has achieved over the past few months,
Oh well, I guess we’ll just have to settle for the mere consolation of winning a treble.
To paraphrase that poet and scholar Barry Ferguson once again: “Things can only get betterer”