I nearly had a Queen's Park moment 20 years ago but my Rangers held their nerve in a crisis – Barry Ferguson
Five days on, I’m still struggling to get my head around it. Still can’t quite believe what I watched at Ibrox on Sunday afternoon.
Still trying to come to terms with a defeat which will go down as one of the worst in the history of Rangers Football Club. And still not sure what the ramifications will be for the future in terms of the manager and his players The one thing I do know with absolute certainty is that I’ve played in a 100 games just like it - even if this win for Queen’s Park will be remembered forever as one of the biggest Scottish Cup shocks of all time. The only difference is the ones I played in have long since been forgotten about.
Trust me, I know how it feels when you’re involved in a game like that. As a player, you can sense it from the start. The team is flat, it’s just not happening out there on the pitch and the anger and frustration is filtering down from the stands. But what you don’t do when you’re wearing a Rangers shirt is allow it to get the better of you and let panic set in. You knuckle down, hold your nerve and find a way to dig yourself out of that hole.
Let me give you an example. Do you remember the day Clyde came within 17 minutes of knocking us out of the League Cup? No, I bet you don’t. After almost two decades, it’s probably been lost in the mists of time. But I’ll never forget it because I was out there in the middle of it.
And I knew just how close we were to what would have been a complete and utter disaster.I started that game on the bench as Alex McLeish wanted to rest some legs in the middle of a Champions League campaign. We had beaten Porto the previous midweek and were facing a heavy schedule.
Anyway, it was one of those nights. We went 1-0 up early on before Clyde


