Barry Ferguson has helped regain a sense of pride at Rangers as the Ibrox support celebrate a Celtic Park victory almost five years in the making.
Not since the title-winning campaign of 2020 have Rangers gone to Parkhead and emerged victorious, Connor Goldson netting a double in a 2-0 win en route to 55.
It’s since the days of Steven Gerrard in fact that Rangers have lacked bite in this fixture over the piece, with Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Michael Beale and Philippe Clement all missing an edge in the fixture.
Barry Ferguson played in plenty of Old Firm battles as a Gers captain and the interim Rangers manager did his chances of winning the job permanently no harm over the weekend.
But the 3-2 victory over Celtic is set to give the club’s prospective new owners an even bigger headache as Rangers wrestle back one long-held record over the Parkhead club.
Rangers regain long-held Celtic win record
This season saw Celtic overtake Rangers in terms of trophies, with the Parkhead side winning their 119th major title in the Premier Sports Cup Final.
With trophies number 120 and 121 being eyed in the Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup, Rangers will likely start three behind their great rivals next season.
With both clubs likely to be tied on 55 titles, 25/26 threatens to be a campaign which swings the Old Firm pendulum towards Parkhead once and for all.
But in the shape of Barry Ferguson, Rangers fans have been given a smidgen of hope.
Rangers’ first win at Parkhead in four-and-a-half years is not just a symbolic one due to finally beating our rivals in their own backyard.
But Rangers have also regained the all-time head-to-head record against the Parkhead side with the 3-2 win.
Celtic had overtaken Rangers in head-to-heads with that 3-0 Parkhead victory in September, but the 3-3 draw at Hampden and back-to-back victories have put the Gers back on top.
| Old Firm record | Games played | Wins | Draws | Losses |
| Rangers | 445 | 171 | 104 | 170 |
| Celtic | 445 | 170 | 104 | 171 |
Barry Ferguson gives US investors Rangers manager headache
Rangers are on the verge of a US takeover with prospective investor Andrew Cavenagh in attendance at Celtic Park.
Cavenagh also watched the penalty kicks win over Fenerbahce before making the trip to Glasgow’s east end for the clash with the Parkhead side.
Like the rest of the watching Rangers support, we’re sure Cavenagh has been impressed with the reaction Ferguson has managed to get from the Rangers squad.
But it gives Cavenagh and investment partners 49ers Enterprises a sizeable head-ache heading into the Rangers takeover.
Barry Ferguson has reiterated that Rangers teams need more than talent to go to places like Celtic Park, Easter Road, Tynecastle, Tannadice and Pittodrie and come away with all three points.
Experimental managers such as Philippe Clement have talked a good game whilst never really grasping this fact, or that every single dropped point is a catastrophe.
Scotland’s idiosyncratic nature means there is no perfect solution and so long as Barry keeps pulling up trees then given the context of recent seasons he’s got to be in the discussion.
The interim Rangers manager has also received unlikely backing from a former Celtic rival with Neil Lennon suggesting Barry is doing everything right.
