Rangers season hasn’t gone to the script Connor Goldson had in mind when he finally put pen to paper on his new contract last summer.
After the fairytale campaigns of 55 and the run to Seville, the Ibrox defender was hoping for another gripping thriller. Instead, it’s been a year of problematic plot twists with fresh frustration only ever a turn of the page away. Rangers’ Champions League campaign wasn’t so much an account of good against bad, more a gory story of what happens when the European elite come up against a side as ill-equipped as Gio van Bronckhorst’s injury-hit squad.
Goldson was among the leading characters to be laid low as the Light Blues produced the worst set of group-stage results ever committed to paper. And without the big Englishman at the heart of his defence, it wasn’t long before van Bronckhorst was written out of proceedings too. Michael Beale was brought in to change the narrative of Rangers’ season but so far the new Ibrox gaffer has found that whatever he’s been able to draft up, Ange Postecoglou has already produced a more polished version over at Parkhead.
