The Rambling Ger

  What a day Saturday was. The team finally got to see all of their magnificent hard work pay off on the final day of the 2020/21 season when they were presented with the SPFL trophy.  It started off with a brilliant 4-0 demolishing of Aberdeen that showed that even though the season was done and that this game was just a formality this squad was not about to let their standards drop. Another great showing for Kemar Roofe as he added 2 goals to his tally for the season and another clean sheet for our back 4 and Allan MacGregor was very pleasing to see, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit the best part of the game for me was Jermain Defoe scoring our final goal of the season. I've spoken before about how I want Jermain to stay ( Red, White and Blue Order ) and I was over the moon to see him score again. The video that the club put online today of him presenting his mother with his match shirt and winners medal is exactly why. He just exudes class and for me, it has been an ab...

  Rangers have just beaten Livingston 3-0 in an extremely comfortable game at the Spaghettiad. A game we dominated from start to finish, albeit one or two shaky moments. A game where we were forced to play a centreback we brought in in January to get used to the club, with no real intentions of needing to play and one of our attacking midfielders at left-back. A game where we played our backup goalkeeper. Yet we made the game look like a routine training game despite the pitch. That game took our season total to 99 points and means that after 37 games, with 1 more game to go to reach 100 points and an invincible league campaign.  This morning Steven Gerrard was named the Scottish Football Writer's Manager of the year after guiding Rangers to the earliest league title in 119 years, when the season was much shorter, and after 4 manager of the month awards and an outstanding European campaign that raised Scottish football's co-efficient to 11th and means automatic qualification f...

Sunday the 8th of December 2019. That is when Steven Gerrards Rangers last lost an Old Firm game. Fast forward 6 Old Firms and 17 months later and Rangers have just skelped the other half of the Old Firm 4-1 in the final one of the season.  That's despite missing Helander, Balogun, Katic, Patterson, Bassey, Jack, Zungu, and Arfield to either injury or suspension. That's despite having won the league 2 months ago. That's despite this being framed as Scott Brown's "Last Dance" (more on that later). You could be forgiven going into this game if you were concerned we wouldn't perform to the high standards we've set over the course of the season. Plenty of Rangers teams in the past have won the league with games to spare and then just checked out on the rest of the campaign, often giving the other half of the old firm a glimmer of hope to take into the next season.  Not this team though, and not in this fixture. Yes, the last few games haven't been grea...