Christian Burgess doesn’t take it personally.
Only a couple of years ago he had absolutely no idea who Union Saint-Gilloise were either. So the former Portsmouth stopper can hardly play the offended card if there were Rangers fans out there punching the air in delight when the Belgian minnows were paired with their team in this season’s Champions League qualifiers.
Yes, Union may have come close to pulling off one of European football’s greatest-ever fairytales last season when they came back from 48 years in lower league obscurity to come within a play-off run of the Belgian title. But with Gio Van Bronckhorst busy heading to a Europa League final in Seville at the time and Celtic clinching the Scottish Premiership, very few fans in this country even had time or the inclination to look up and take notice.
