MY FAVOURITE SHIRT: Rangers home 88-89... scoring for club I supported as child

  /  autty

My highlight as a kid every birthday and Christmas would be tearing open the wrapping paper to discover the kit of Rangers, my idols.

As a boy, I watched them win cup finals in front of 130,000 at Hampden.

To finally pull on their royal blue shirt as a player at nearly 33 was special, particularly when I scored my first goal — a header of course — against St Mirren.

I wasn’t there long but we won the league in 1988-89, the first of nine in a row, so I am part of the club’s history.

A funny memory was being called in by my manager at West Brom, Ron Atkinson, to say the team I’d always wanted to play for had made a bid.

I joked I was too old for Real Madrid — when he confirmed it was Rangers, I jumped in my car to sign.

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