The legendary captain has high hopes for this next generation player who along with Igamane can help his club shine again
As a matter of fact, I turned 47 at the weekend and I’m still waiting to discover what the word even means. I just wish it would hurry up. So you can probably imagine what I was like as a kid at Ibrox, wondering when I would finally be given the chance to force my way into the first team and become a regular Rangers player.
The rest of the young boys would be looking on too but I wasn’t interested in speaking to anyone. I just sat there. On my ball. Watching and studying everything they did. And all the while I’d be thinking to myself, ‘Wow! Just look at the way these guys go about it. That’s what it’s going to take if you want to be out there with them one day’.
‘Listen son,’ they’d say. ‘Take your time. You’re just not quite ready yet physically or mentally. But your time is coming. So what are you going to do? Spit the dummy out or work even harder to be ready for it when it does?’ Yes I was frustrated. I wanted everything yesterday. I looked around that dressing room, saw guys like big Jorg, Gio van Bronckhorst and Claudio Reyna and I realised I had the fight of my life on my hands to stay in the manager’s first XI. But there was no way I was going to back down. If one of these guys wanted my shirt they were going to have to rip it out of my hands. I simply wasn’t prepared to let it go.
But, as a midfield man myself, I obviously look at Rice and can’t but get excited about this kid’s potential. Believe me, I’ve seen more than enough to be convinced that he has everything required to make the kind of impact I managed to do back in the day.
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