Nathan Patterson has already lived some intoxicating highs. Making his Rangers debut at 18. Scoring for his boyhood club in Europe. Winning 55. A record-breaking £16million move to Everton. Thriving in the Premier League. And becoming Scotland’s new right-back.
But sitting with MailSport , he articulates his whirlwind career with a maturity and humility that didn’t come from those exhilarating moments. No, the likelihood is that Patterson is the man he is today from his solitary low point.
In March 2021, along with four of his team-mates, he was hit with a six-game SFA suspension for breaking Covid rules and reprimanded by Rangers. As a teenager, it devastated him. Just a month previously, he’d been on Cloud Nine when he got his first Gers goal against Royal Antwerp at Ibrox. But suddenly people on the outside who didn’t know him, were judging his character and questioning whether he should still be at the club.
