Cult Rangers hero refuses to deny unmissable truth about Celtic as he maps out plan to defy the odds

It's a mantra that’s wearing thin for Rangers fans right now. Keep believing? Even the man who coined the phrase 20 years ago, admits that’s getting tougher given the current state of affairs at Ibrox.

But, as everyone knows, Marvin Andrews isn’t a guy who loses faith. And he says, despite the trials and tribulations at his old club, they CAN turn things around this season. Granted, he has called out Philippe Clement’s players and urged them to show a bit of character and responsibility for their failings.

Andrews feels the Rangers dressing-room is crying out for a figurehead, like his old team-mate Barry Ferguson. The former Gers skipper had to sit in the Celtic Park stands on Sunday watching a 3-0 Old Firm humiliation. But the big Trinidadian will never stop believing. After all, he spent his whole career proving people wrong. From humble beginnings on a Caribbean island to winning a title on Helicopter Sunday for Gers in 2005, Andrews likes defying the odds.

But he only achieved what he did by having resilience. And that’s what Andrews says Rangers must show now as they trail their Glasgow rivals on and off the park. As he weighed up the situation at Ibrox after that derby defeat, the former centre-back told MailSport: “That phrase – keep believing – will always come up at Rangers in situations like this.

“Whenever the club are in a bit of difficulty, I hear fans using it. And you HAVE to believe you can turn things around.

“I’m not in the dressing-room so I don’t know the mindset of these players. But they’re obviously in a tough place – everyone can see that Celtic are much stronger than us. So it looks dull and gloomy right now for supporters.

“But bad starts can have good endings. And that’s what every Rangers fan