Marvin Andrews has hailed how Rangers have come through such a difficult time.
Marvin Andrews – Glasgow Rangers
Former Rangers defender Marvin Andrews has told the Glasgow Evening Times that he thinks the club are ‘absolutely amazing’ for responding to tough times in recent years.
The Gers were infamously liquidated in 2012, meaning they had to start all the way back down in the fourth tier of Scottish football, and had to start their journey back to the top having lost a number of key players.
Successive promotions helped them back to the second tier by 2014, and after play-off failure in 2015, Mark Warburton took Rangers back to top flight earlier this year.
Fans will be hoping to see Rangers challenge Old Firm rivals Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premiership as soon as possible, but the 5-1 defeat to the Bhoys in September, as well as some up-and-down results so far this term, show that there’s still some way to go before Rangers are restored to their former glories.
One man who remembers the good times at Ibrox is Marvin Andrews, as the defender won the 2005 SPL title, and also helped the Gers win the Scottish League Cup in the same season.
General view outside Ibrox
The former Trinidad and Tobago international, made 53 league appearances for Rangers between 2004 and 2006 having been signed from Livingston, and he has now commented on the club’s recovery.
Andrews told the Glasgow Evening Times suggested that greatness is truly measured by what people and teams go through and recover from, stating that ‘you just have to applaud’ what Rangers have done in recent years.
The former defender added that Rangers’ response to difficulties is what makes them ‘absolutely amazing’, and noted that the fans will simply never let Rangers die.
Marvin Andrews
“A great person is not known by where they are, but what they have come through to get where they are,” Andrews said. “That is how greatness is measured. What Rangers has come through to be where they are today is magnificent and it shows the greatness of the club. You just have to applaud it.”
“It shows the greatness of the fans, the club as a whole. As long as these fans are alive, Rangers will never die. For me, that is what greatness is. Yes, you can win a lot of trophies. But greatness is judged when you are going through a difficult time and it is how you respond to that. That is what makes Rangers absolutely amazing,” he added.
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