Writing in the Courier, after last weekend’s BBC footage of the 2002 Scottish Cup final (which we won’t mention again), Rab Douglas said: “Thank goodness Twitter wasn’t around back then. According to some folk I should be taking the blame for Barry Ferguson’s free-kick and Peter Lovenkrands’ winner! What I will admit is that if you were trying to pick a best Celtic team from that year combined with the current one, I’m probably the only one from ’02 that would be subbed.”
The former Celtic goalkeeper elaborated: “There’s no shame in making way for Fraser Forster, who has been bought and sold for £10 million. You can have a debate over a few other positions – like Scott Brown and Neil Lennon – but I wouldn’t be making any outfield changes. I certainly wouldn’t be dropping Stan Petrov for anybody, as some on social media are suggesting. They’ve got short memories.”
Douglas closed the piece by stating “What I can say is nobody would get in that Rangers side from the present day. If Morelos couldn’t score in the recent Betfred Cup final, you wouldn’t trust him in a game like the one we played.” However, we tend to think this final comment is ‘null and void’ considering Douglas is comparing teams from two different clubs there.
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