Goldson Rangers BACK PAGE didn’t believe leaked line-up
CONNOR GOLDSON says Rangers refused to believe the leaked Celtic team news that left Neil Lennon livid. Hoops boss Lennon has started s an internal probe into how his line-up, with young
Stephen Welsh in for injured Christopher Jullien and no place for Odsonne Edouard, was plastered all over the internet hours before kick-off. But two
goal hero Goldson, whose double sealed a 2-0 win for Steven Gerrard’s men at Parkhead, insisted he and his team-mates ignored the early heads-up as they didn’t believe it.
The Ibrox defender said: “We never ( believed it). Even in our pre-match meeting, we thought Edouard would play and we thought Jullien would also play.
“A few of us had seen the team but we didn’t really believe it.
“We know that in an Old Firm you can never trust anything that comes out.
“One day someone is injured and the next they’re playing. Listen, every player wants to play in an Old Firm.
“Whether they are injured or not they’ll try and get through it, so we went into the game thinking Jul lien and Edouard would play.
“Truthfully, I got on a coach and I had a message from one of my best mates down south who plays for Doncaster and he said Welsh was playing and Edouard isn’t playing.
“I said, ‘ Yeah good one, we’ ll see when we get there.’
“Obviously when we got there, the team was true but I don’t know how he knew, playing down south, but he was the only person who texted me.”
With Rangers four points clear at the top of the Premiership, Goldson is urging his team-mates to maintain the focus and intensity that brought them the derby rewards at Celtic Park.
Speaking on talkSPORT, he added: “Old Firms are the hardest games but at the same time they are easier because you don’t need to get everyone up for them.
“You know where everyone’s mindset is but it’s right to say it’s the other games that matter too.
“This season against the other teams we’ve been a lot better. We’ve shown our consistency, we’ve gone to these places and we’ve been winning.
“We need to carry that on. I can see there has been a mental change within our changing room, that winning an Old Firm game isn’t enough.
“Hopefully we can back it up and by the end of the season we can celebrate.
“I think it’s changed. I’ve been here a few years now and when I first came Rangers hadn’t beat Celtic for a few years and never got the results we are getting now.
“Now there’s players here who have done it, who have won a few games and it’s not about beating Celtic – it’s about going and winning silverware.
“Because a few of us have been here a few years now it’s not a new team anymore.
“We know what’s expected and I think we now know what the league is about, and it’s starting to show.”