PL boss says he spoke to Rangers about the manager job and there is an ‘unbelievable atmosphere at Ibrox’ | OneFootball

I had contact with Rangers. I spoke to people at Rangers. We were flying out to my wife Debbie’s sister in Florida at the end of the season and I had a quick chat with them, but it wasn’t right for me at the time, I was well settled in everything else.

But both are great football clubs. I’ve been to Ibrox, I went up there and watched a game a few years ago and the atmosphere was just unbelievable.

I’ve got tremendous respect for both old firm clubs. When I just started playing football, I honestly believed that Rangers, Celtic, a team from Dublin and a team from Belfast, would join the Premier League or join the English League.

I honestly thought that there’d be a club from Belfast, a club from Dublin and the two giants from Scotland joining, but it never happened. They’re massive clubs, absolutely worldwide clubs and they deserve a lot of respect for the way they have kept things going because it must be difficult up there.

Obviously they’ve had competition over the years, but not great competition. It’s usually between Celtic and Rangers so you’re talking about the four times they play each other being all or nothing. Most of us from down south think they should be winning the rest of the games.

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