Off script Rangers season frustrates Connor Goldson and reveals there's WINS he's not enjoyed

Rangers season hasn’t gone to the script Connor Goldson had in mind when he finally put pen to paper on his new contract last summer.

After the fairytale campaigns of 55 and the run to Seville, the Ibrox defender was hoping for another gripping thriller. Instead, it’s been a year of problematic plot twists with fresh frustration only ever a turn of the page away. Rangers’ Champions League campaign wasn’t so much an account of good against bad, more a gory story of what happens when the European elite come up against a side as ill-equipped as Gio van Bronckhorst’s injury-hit squad.

Goldson was among the leading characters to be laid low as the Light Blues produced the worst set of group-stage results ever committed to paper. And without the big Englishman at the heart of his defence, it wasn’t long before van Bronckhorst was written out of proceedings too. Michael Beale was brought in to change the narrative of Rangers’ season but so far the new Ibrox gaffer has found that whatever he’s been able to draft up, Ange Postecoglou has already produced a more polished version over at Parkhead.

The story of Gers’ season could well be defined this weekend if they cannot get a result at Celtic Park on Saturday and are left to fill the role of Premiership runners up yet again. But even if it has to wait until next season, Goldson is clinging to the hope there will be another happy ending to come.

“Yes it’s probably been one of my most frustrating seasons at the club,” confessed the centre-back as he looked back on the period since he agreed his new four-year deal last June. Did I imagine this last year when I signed? No! It’s been hard in every way. We had a managerial change during the season which has been a few years on the