If you don’t already, a subscription to Rangers TV is well worth the money for any fan, whether it’s the highlights, full matches or behind the scenes footage, there is something for everyone on the current squad and in the archives.
One recent addition to the features is where the players are asked to name their dream five-a-side team, sometimes total fantasy, sometimes made from players they have faced but usually, it has to be former – or current – team-mates.
Scott Arfield was up this week and there are a couple of familiar faces in his team, Steven Davis and Allan McGregor lining up for the Canadian international, whose previous clubs also include Falkirk, Huddersfield Town and Burnley.
Upfront, he went with Danny Ings who really made his name at Turf Moor along with Kieran Trippier who Arfield has as his lone defender, but it’s in attack where there is, perhaps, a surprise addition.
Hailing him as “the best player I’ve ever played with” Arfield picks Russell Latapy, a former Ranger himself of course, an individual who never quite hit the heights at Rangers but at Falkirk and Hibernian was something of a maverick, capable of the brilliant and the sublime.
That he also smoked “40 fags a day” isn’t a secret but shows just how good a player he could have been if he had shared Arfield’s attitude and professionalism.
It’s one of the stranger teams on the feature, and yet, you could see it working. I’ve always wondered though, if current team-mates noses are put out of joint by not being included…