Rangers have won the Cup only twice in 15 years and fell away in the league to leave their manager needing victory at Hampden
Rangers have won the Cup only twice in 15 years and fell away in the league to leave their manager needing Hampden winin a Scottish Cup final is about as remarkable as Thursday following Wednesday has not been paying attention. A Rangers victory via the odd goal in five from a Hampden epic in 2002 marks the last time the Old Firm squared off in Scottish football’s showpiece occasion. The noisy neighbours will be belatedly reunited on Saturday.
Of more concern to Rangers than fixture quirks should be the list of triumphant finalists since they lifted this trophy in 2009. Thehas been housed at Ibrox on one more occasion during the intervening years. St Johnstone have won it twice in this period. Celtic’s seven successes in 14 seasons emphasise a period of dominance but the ribbons of Hearts, Hibs, Inverness and Dundee United have draped over the Cup as often as those of Rangers since Falkirk were narrowly seen off, 15 years ago.
Rangers can point to their financial implosion in 2012 as a mitigating factor but their silverware return while still carrying by far the second biggest budget in Scotland has been awful. When Rangers’ operating costs rose above Celtic’s in 2022-23, excuses had run out for all bar the blinkered. No club in world football preaches about the importance of winning, while simultaneously falling short, more thanand purring off it.
The Celtic manager – not one to miss an opportunity to curry favour – was lauding his club’s support for the latest time shortly before the same group were embarrassing themselves in Glasgow city centre during title “celebrations” last weekend. Nobody expressed louder disgust over Celtic stuttering earlier in the season than the same fans. Joe Hart, nothing more than a decent Celtic goalkeeper, has been heralded as some kind of modern-day icon as he edges towards retirement.
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