Your Worst Rangers Eleven?
Posted on Wednesday 28 May 2008 22:55
If you frequent other Rangers fan-based websites or read either of the fantastic Rangers fanzines that are regularly produced you will no doubt know that someone has it on good authority that Kanny [score in a barrel of fannys] Mhiller has/has not signed for Rangers (delete as applicable). You may also know that Shaun [alter boy of the year 1992 - present day] Maloney has/has not signed for Rangers (again, delete as applicable). Just for the record - I wish for neither of these no-mark, sellickfootballclub badge-kissing yahoo's anywhere near our squad. In fact I would rather pay to see Elaine C Smith strip than pay to see these two nobodies in a Rangers strip.
Of course Rangers will always be the subject of transfer rumours with various footballers of varying quality and ability. Unfortunately some of the shite ones did actually sign for us. Having a discussion with my old man a wee while ago, we got onto the subject of the worst Rangers team ever. Him being infinitely older than me allowed him a larger pool of crapness to select from, but nonetheless it became as heated as any "best team" conversation we've ever had. You can all blame him for this post since he's been going on at me to do it for some time now
Being a child of the eighties and someone with the memory of a goldfish my selection focused from 1991 onwards. After sitting down and scribbling some names I came up with a pool of 27 players from which to choose my worst 11 from. One thing stood out as I looked over the names I'd jotted down - we have never really had any shit midfielders but by god have we had some undependable defenders and awful attackers. Here's my pool:
Of course Rangers will always be the subject of transfer rumours with various footballers of varying quality and ability. Unfortunately some of the shite ones did actually sign for us. Having a discussion with my old man a wee while ago, we got onto the subject of the worst Rangers team ever. Him being infinitely older than me allowed him a larger pool of crapness to select from, but nonetheless it became as heated as any "best team" conversation we've ever had. You can all blame him for this post since he's been going on at me to do it for some time now
Being a child of the eighties and someone with the memory of a goldfish my selection focused from 1991 onwards. After sitting down and scribbling some names I came up with a pool of 27 players from which to choose my worst 11 from. One thing stood out as I looked over the names I'd jotted down - we have never really had any shit midfielders but by god have we had some undependable defenders and awful attackers. Here's my pool:
| Goalkeepers | Defenders | Midfielders | Attackers |
| Bonny Ginsberg | Dave McPherson | Oleg Salenko | Erik Bo Anderson |
| Ally Maxwell | Fraser Wishart | Christian Nerlinger | Tore Andre Flo |
| Lionel Letizi | Gary Bollan | Mahktar N'Diaye | John Spencer |
| Paulo Vanoli | Amdy Faye | Nuno Capucho | |
| Darius Adamczuk | Stephen Hughes | Egil Ostenstad | |
| Maurice Ross | Filip Sebo | ||
| Tony Vidmar | Peter Van Vossen | ||
| Dan Eggen | Stephan Guivarc'h | ||
| Kirk Broadfoot | Marcus Gayle | ||
| Francis Jeffers |
It goes without saying that you will be hard pushed to find 2 people with the same opinion as mine above. Likewise you will be hard pushed to find two people who would make the same selection from the pool above. I make no apologies for my choice below and I will state that no scientific research whatsoever went into my choices. I simply took from memory the worst performances I've seen from these players above. Here is what I came up with:
No doubt some of you will disagree somewhat with my selection. No doubt many of you will be going mental at the inclusion or leaving out of various players but that is the intention of the site - to promote discussion about Rangers. Feel free to leave a comment if you feel strongly enough, either here, or in the forum.
For the record I would like to thank all the players above for their efforts whilst being part of Rangers. You all achieved something that the vast majority of us never have or will.
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No doubt some of you will disagree somewhat with my selection. No doubt many of you will be going mental at the inclusion or leaving out of various players but that is the intention of the site - to promote discussion about Rangers. Feel free to leave a comment if you feel strongly enough, either here, or in the forum.
For the record I would like to thank all the players above for their efforts whilst being part of Rangers. You all achieved something that the vast majority of us never have or will.
