Andy Goram wants a celtic rangers league cup tie - anyone else?

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/footb...irm-to-be-paired-in-league-cup-draw-1-2561893

SPEAKING as one former Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper to another, Andy Goram has a special request for Bobby Brown when he makes the draw for the Scottish Communities League Cup at Hampden this afternoon.


He didn’t quite plead with 79-year-old Brown to draw Celtic and Rangers together, but feels that “it’s time” for the Old Firm to meet again.

“I really want to play Celtic, I really would,” said Goram. “I think it’s time we had one because everyone is missing it. We’re only quarter of the way into the season and everyone in the country is missing it. Even the most bitter Rangers and Celtic fans can’t say they’re not missing the Old Firm games – they’re the best games in the world.”But hang on – are Celtic not top dogs and doing well in Europe, and aren’t Third Division Rangers not as all-conquering as most people thought? Wouldn’t it be a mismatch?

“I’d bet Rangers,” said Goram. “I wouldn’t fear for Rangers, that game would take care of itself.”

The Ibrox club has already shown they can go up against an SPL side and win, as Goram pointed out. He said: “Motherwell had a fantastic start to the season and fully deserved to be top of the league. They were favourites at Ibrox despite having not won there in a million years and I thought that was strange. Rangers were 6/4 and that amazed me. It’s OK saying that after the event but that’s how it is in Scottish football right now. It’s a big adventure. Obviously the sponsors would want an Old Firm final, that would be unbelievable.”

Bobby Brown was best known as Scotland’s first full-time manager and the man who guided Scotland to that unforgettable 3-2 win over world champions England at Wembley in 1967. He was part of the Rangers team that won the inaugural Scottish League Cup in 1946-47 and won six caps for Scotland as well as five Scottish League Championships and four Scottish Cups, plus another League Cup, before managing St Johnstone – he gave Alex Ferguson his professional break – and then Scotland. No doubt Brown will have his ideas on solving the mystery of Rangers’ away form and Goram certainly has his.

He said: “Away from home it’s not so much ability that matters, it’s attitude. You have to earn the right to go and play. First you’ve got to fight and win your battles.

“Then you can play. It’s easy for people on the outside to look at what’s happening and say they’re not doing well away from home. But it’s not easy to go to these grounds. We had to do it maybe once or twice in a season at most and it’s not easy to lift your game at all.

“It was easier for us to play at Elland Road and Marseilles than it is for them to play at Annan and Peterhead, a lot easier.”

i can honestly say I hope that we don't play the rangers this season. does anyone on here want to play them?

 

What does the other andy goram think ? there are two after all.

 

I wouldn't mind playing them just to shut them up. As long as we progress though as that is the main thing. Celtic have a chance to pick up a few easy trebles and I just hope they don't look back and regret what a chance they had.

 

i am not so sure how many trebles will be won before the rangers return to the spl. Everyone thought the treble was nailed on last year but in any cup competition you are only a bad performance (or refereeing decision) away from knockout

it is only my opinion but three years without them sounds good to me

 

There is no Old Firm Andy

Rangers are deid

 

Goram believes winning on the road in Scotland's fourth tier is tougher than getting away points in the champions league !!! What was being said about thick Huns ???

 

Don't have any desire to play them. Think the atmosphere would be just too toxic.

 

3 quick goals and the Huns would be off home , bring it on

 

Fixed

Sounds like they are warming the balls as we speak

 

14:00 PM today I think.

I hope to avoid them for at least a year.

It's nice to just have a year off.

I'm sure every emergency worker in Strathclyde agrees with me

 

Not a ****ing chance. Don't want any of their cloggers near our bhoys.

GTF Sevco.

 

This

The Old Firm died with Rangers.

 

would be like a cat with a dying mouse.

karma is a big fat fookin bitch!

 

Draw is at 13.30 not 14.00

 

Celtic would mangle us just now.

Goram's off his head if he thinks any different.

Our only chance would be to play Celtic at Ibrox, and if QOTS can beat us there, then so can the Tims.

 

Would be hell right now, I wouldn't want to play them this season, too much beel about.

 

wud rather not play them.

dont want to be giving them a nice wee windfall and also its a lose-lose for us, we hammer them it doesnt matter cos theyre just a 3rd division team, we get beat and they *****s will go into overdrive

remember how excited they got when they beat motherwell, think that x a million

 

Rangers v ict , Celtic / st Johnstone

 

"SPEAKING as one former Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper to another, Andy Goram has a special request for Bobby Brown when he makes the draw for the Scottish Communities League Cup at Hampden this afternoon."

sing "my perogative" one last time?