A beer and a chat with Rangers boss Gio van Bronckhorst convinced me he’ll reverse derby humiliation – Barry Ferguson

It’s the sound that never leaves you, long after the dust has settled on your career.

You’re walking in through your own front door and all you can hear is people scattering into different rooms trying to hide. Your own family doesn’t want to be anywhere near you.

Your stomach is still churning. It’s been eating away at your insides since you came off that pitch. You’ve just been turned over by Celtic. And there’s nothing you can do about it now to take it back. The hurt is almost unbearable.

And yet it’s all you can think about as you replay the 90 minutes inside your head on the bus journey back to Ibrox and then again on the lonely drive back to the house.

Your head’s in a mess and there’s a knot in the pit of your guts. And this is only the start of it. You’re punishing yourself and you know it’s going to last for days.

That’s the price of failing to deliver in an Old Firm derby. The criticism is coming too for the rest of the week and the horrible truth is you know you deserve every last bit of it. There’s no way out of the mess you’ve got yourself into. No option but to suck it all up.

I’ve been there more times than I care to remember and trust me when I tell you, it’s one dark, dark place.

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