In the interests of fairness, Tom Miller had to admit Tom Rogic's strike was a stunner, and he always seeks to bring some positivity to Rangers proceedings, even in a goalless home draw to Stirling Albion

Ibrox. When Scott Brown's long ball put Moussa Dembele behind the Rangers defence and as Wes Foderingham raced from his line, co-commentator Hugh Burns asked: “What's the goalie daeing, Tom?” just as the Frenchman lobbed the ball home to make it 2-2 on the stroke of half time.

“That interrupted my flow,” says Miller with a rueful smile. “When you look back on it, Hugh was right. But he should have throttled it back a bit to allow the passage of play to take place. It wasn't sterile. This is Rangers TV. With hindsight my answer would be: ‘He doesn't trust his centre-halves.'

“Should Hugh have put it differently? Maybe, but at least he showed passion. Remember who our audience is.

“I have to say that 99 per cent of the Celtic fans I interact with are different class. You get the odd Rangers fan who is suspicious and one did say that I was ‘worth the watching' because I follow the Celtic account!”

The watching man might have a point.

“I was fortunate. My uncle had a member's seat, right behind the gantry in the main stand, this is early-1960s, and he took me to games. He was a fishmonger in Coatbridge. It did very well on a Friday, I'm told.”

Miller calls himself lucky, which he might well be, but he is good at what he does. It began almost as a hobby when he covered cricket for the now defunct Scot FM in the early-1990s. That led to football and, pun intended, out of the blue a chance came up to join Rangers.

“This was 1999 and the club wanted to put an audio-only commentary on the internet. It was Ian Ferguson's testimonial with Sunderland, and I ended up doing the commentary.

“That was my first. I was nervous but I was told that I'd be a pioneer, the first voice of Scottish football on the internet. I had a go. I got away with it. I had the late, great Colin Jackson beside me, and we got 57,000 hits.

“To be asked back so often, and that's 20 years now, I do have to remind myself how lucky I am.”

Miller felt lucky even at Elgin on the highest platform in the world – “we were looking down on the Nevis ski slopes,” he joked – fighting rain at Alloa, and trying to find positivity in a goalless home draw to Stirling Albion.

His love for Rangers is sincere. There is one hell of a book in him.

Miller says 15,000 fans tune in to every match from North America alone, getting up at silly o'clock.

What's the commentator doing? A really good job, that's what.