If Giovanni van Bronckhorst has any sense, he will spend this morning going through the fine print in Antonio Colak’s contract.
Just to make sure there are all the necessary clauses that prevent his clinical Croat dabbling in unnecessarily risky extracurriculars. After all, the Ibrox manager wouldn’t want something as hazardous as, say, a stray squash ball to knock his summer signing off his hot streak.
Colak has certainly batted aside those critics who questioned if he was cut out for life as Rangers ’ No.9. Seven goals in the first month of the season constitute freak numbers, only bettered by Marco Negri’s haul of 10 in 1997. He carried that red-hot run of goals on all the way to Christmas, by which point he’d netted 33 times before his brush with Sergio Porrini’s 100mph forehand almost cost him an eye. It proved far more critical for Walter Smith’s bid for 10 in a row and the bleary squad saw their big chance of Ibrox immortality slip through their fingers as Negri’s goals dried up.
