Rangers have confirmed the identities of five players who breached Covid-19 protocol
Derek Ferguson has called the five Ibrox rule-breakers arrogant and singled out Bongani Zungu for particularly severe criticism.
Zungu was among five Rangers men named by manager Steven Gerrard this week as having breached Covid-19 regulations by attending a party at the weekend.
The other four were Calvin Bassey, Brian Kinnear, Dapo Mebude and Nathan Patterson.
Its the second time Rangers have had to deal with a Covid breach this season. Jordan Jones and George Edmundson were handed seven-game suspensions in November having attended a party, and both players have since gone to England on loan.
The five players involved are currently isolating, and Gerrard told Rangers TV that he felt “personally let down” by their behaviour.
Ferguson, who spent eight years at Ibrox during his playing days, believes the five have
Speaking on the Open Goal podcast, Ferguson compared the situation with Celtic’s controversial trip to Dubai.
He said: “What are they thinking about? We will just go and do what we want.
“This is what I hate. That people point the finger and go like that ‘football players they think they are above everyone else, they think they are this or that’.
“And I hate that. That is what this kind of stinks of.
“That they’ve just thought ‘To hell with it, we are just going to do what we want, we are going to go to a party’. And if the police hadn’t turned up, what is happening with those boys?
“Are they going back into training, are they going to spread it round the dressing room?
“Look what happened with Celtic, going to Dubai, the consequences. The consequences would have been Rangers going out with a weakened team, four games from winning the championship.
“All the Rangers fans around the country have been wanting this so badly and those boys have put it at risk.
“I am a big believer that you get a second chance in life and in certain things. But those boys won’t get it.
“They don’t deserve it because we know the rules.
“There were mistakes made last year and we have learned, everything that goes on in football clubs.
“They are down on you like a tonne of bricks, you can’t do this as you are in the bubble and those guys have just arrogantly have just thought ‘yeah’.
“People say they are young boys, yeah some of them are, but what is Zungu? He is a 28-year-old experienced boy. He has spat the dummy out.
“He has had a couple of opportunities, St Mirren never took it, Hamilton never took it, and he has gone ‘to hell with it’. And the consequences he could have brought into that Rangers camp.
“Shocking, they deserve all they get to be honest with you.”
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