This might be a speck of living in the past, to an extent, but Ibrox Noise was amused to hear that former Rangers first-teamer and lifelong fan Andy Halliday backed up our long-reported assertion about ex-Rangers defender Connor Goldson and his inability to take responsibility for any of his errors, or, more pertinently, his insistence on ‘blame culture’.

Speaking on the well-respected Open Goal YouTube channel with Si Ferry, Halliday’s comments were interesting:

“The one that stands out to me was Connor Goldson at Rangers. Connor was just of them who no matter what goal was conceded it was blame culture; the striker might have been a yard from him (Goldson) and scored but it was somebody else in front of him’s (Goldson) fault. It’s those ones, who want to blame everyone else but themselves.”

Of course it’s in the past now, but it definitely did not help Rangers’ cause to have such a self-serving player at the rearguard who wanted the glory for good work but to take no responsibility when he made mistakes, and Halliday took major issue with this to say the least.

Goldson was far from an impressive defender for Rangers, and there’s a sense that he knew this and tried to make himself feel better by never admitting he was at fault. In a sense it’s a mild delusion, that Goldson sees himself as a lot better than he is, and can’t handle the idea he’s made an error, so invents things.

In short, Goldson was (and probably is) a massive gaslighter, in that whatever error he makes, he blames his team mates for.

He’ll do the same at Aris Limassol.

They are completely welcome to him.

Ibrox Noise saw this side of him for many years, and while other fans saw it too, it makes a difference when an ex-team mate sees the same thing and says it as well.

And there you have it.