NOBODY in Scottish football , not even their most wildly optimistic supporter, is giving Rangers a prayer of enjoying a successful 2024/25 campaign at the present moment in time. Their summer recruitment drive has been, one or two exceptions aside, fairly underwhelming and their early-season form both at home and abroad has not been entirely convincing either. On top of that, the fact they are having to play their home matches at Hampden and not at Ibrox due to delays to the redevelopment work on the Copland Stand is far from ideal.
But Marvin Andrews has seen the Glasgow club’s prospects of lifting silverware written off by all and sundry – including by their own players – before and knows from personal experience that things do not always work out entirely as expected. Andrews, who has just written his autobiography, Believer in Blue: Football, My Life, My Faith, in conjunction with official Rangers historian David Mason, is convinced they can prove the doubters wrong once again come May and has urged everyone connected with the Govan outfit to “keep believing”. Read more: Rangers icon questions 'strange' decision to quit Ibrox for Hampden Scottish spine needed at Rangers according to Ibrox icon Bobby Russell VAR has been ‘excellent’ for Scottish football, says Douglas Ross That was the larger-than-life Trinidadian centre half’s mantra towards the end of the 2004/05 season, his first at Ibrox, when it appeared to onlookers that they had gifted Celtic, who ha.