OUT IN A BLAZER GLORY

HE’S the Rangers boss who may have to park the bus when he’s just got used to parking the car.

Graeme Murty has refused to wear a suit on the touchlines these last four weeks but still intends going out in a blazer glory at Celtic Park.

If he collapses, drained, back at Ibrox after the match, victory to his credit, the last place he’ll slump exhausted is the chair in the office used for generations by everyone from Bill Struth to Walter Smith.

Leading the Rangers team since the sudden departure of Mark Warburton and David Weir has sat easily on the shoulders of the former Scotland defender. Describing himself as Rangers boss has not.

Murty said: “It has been stressful, difficult and enough to make me go grey but, oh God, I’ll miss it. Managing a club of this stature should never be easy because if you get too comfortable you can stop moving forward.

“I’ve been impacted in a very subtle way about the size of this job. We know this is a massive club but to see the way the manager is held has been an eye-opening experience, fantastic.

“When you look at a list of the people who have managed this club you can see why it needs a special person at the helm to make sure we move forward.

“That’s why I haven’t sat in the chair in the manager’s office. It’s not mine, to be perfectly honest.

“It’s also part of the reason I haven’t worn a suit yet on the sidelines. I know I’m getting pelters from some people for not wearing one. They say the Rangers manager should always wear a suit.

“I don’t feel as though I’ve done enough to deserve and be worthy of that so I’ve deliberately kept myself as a coach. Even parking around the other side at the club training centre, next to the first-team squad, has been strange.

“The game on Sunday will be a unique moment in my life. I’m looking forward to the experience. I can’t say I’m looking forward to enjoying the game because I won’t. “But when I look back and reflect on it, I will have a little smile and think I’m a fortunate person to be given that opportunity because there aren’t many who can say they’ve stood on the sidelines at an Old Firm game.

“Celtic are going to win the league and fair play to them, they’ve been really good. But for me, standing there with the team, I can’t wait to see what everything is about.

“I’ve been looking at this game since I was a kid. I’ve watched it every time it was on the television and now I can’t wait to go and experience it.

“I’d talk to people in Scotland