Arfield wants it to be Blues vs the world

SCOTT ARFIELD reckons a dressing- room siege mentality will stand Rangers in good stead this season.

Steven Gerrard’s side kicked- off their Premiership campaign with a 1- 1 draw against Aberdeen yesterday.

The Gers were down to 10 men after just 12 minutes as Alfredo Morelos was shown a red card for an incident with Scott McKenna.

But Dons defender Dominic Ball then avoided punishment from referee Kevin Clancy for a foul on Josh Windass before James Tavernier put Gerrard’s side ahead from the penalty spot.

Bruce Anderson rescued a point for Aberdeen in the final minutes to leave the Light Blues feeling what might have been at Pittodrie.

Arfield said: “Listen, there is a decision there to be made and the referee has made the decision to give the red card.

“If you look at the penalty incident, if it is the other way about, does he send one of our men off because it is a goalscoring opportunity? I think we have got every right to feel like that.

“I think you have to have that [ siege mentality], even if nobody feels like that. In the dressing room, you need to come together and galvanise.

“The club is huge, it is an institution, but it starts from the dressing room and if everybody is in there on the same sheet it makes it incredibly difficult for our opponents to get something from us, like it was today.

“They got a lucky break and fair play to the lad, it is a good strike and it goes in the bottom corner. But the feeling we have got now is one that we don’t want to feel again.”