Rangers had no fight, no desire, no anger, no pride and I am livid - Barry Ferguson

There are certain things that simply aren’t acceptable for any Rangers player. Losing 4-0 twice in the space of five days is certainly one of them. But it wasn’t even the eight goals conceded against Celtic and Ajax which ought to be hurting them right now.

Because what can never be tolerated at my old club is the manner in which they have surrendered and capitulated in two of the biggest games they could possibly be asked to play. Fight. Desire. Spirit. Professional pride. A bit of anger.

I didn’t see any of it in these two defeats and that must have been the biggest concern of all for Giovanni van Bronckhorst as he sat on the plane back from Amsterdam on Wednesday night. People used to say I was a right moany b****** as a player and I can’t argue with that. I might not have been the best player in the world but I was a multi-tasker - I could bark at people at the same time as I was passing the ball to them - and I’m sure my old team mates were sick of the sight of my angry wee face.

But I’ll tell you this much, if you ask any one of them they’ll tell you I kept them on their toes. I kept them alert. I demanded more from them when we were up against a wall.

And I probably did more shouting at my own TV on Wednesday night than I saw going on out there on the pitch. The more angry I got, the more lethargic and passive they seemed to become.

Let’s make no mistake here. They went out there and sat off a very good Ajax side. They allowed them to play their own game. And they got exactly what they deserved for it. Look, I played plenty of bad games in a Rangers shirt, especially in the Champions League.

But I made sure the guy I was up against knew he was in a game. If I wasn’t playing well then I made sure he wasn’t