Rangers fans should know by now the perils of jumping to early conclusions.
Had first impressions counted for anything, there’s every chance Ally McCoist and Andy Goram may have been bombed out before they exploded into the Ibrox icons they became. McCoist is able to laugh now about the time he had the entire Copland Road telling him where to go.
He’d managed to hit everything but the back of the net on an afternoon of awful finishing against Dundee not long after arriving at the club in 1983. But back then it looked seriously doubtful he’d ever win over the critics howling from the terraces. There were plenty ready to write off Goram too after his 1991 switch from Hibs when The Goalie compounded a costly Tynecastle blunder with another major mistake in a European Cup clash with Sparta Prague a month-and-a-half later.
