One might envisage "Rangers" as some venerated veteran club, steeped in proud heritage since time immemorial. However, the reality is slightly less romantic, with their inception dating back to the relatively recent year of 2012. The location of their spirited skirmishes is the Ibrox Stadium, an arena nestled in the heart of our bonny homeland of Scotland.
Sporting a squad reputed to be worth a neatly rounded sum of £102m, per the discerning estimations over at Transfermarkt, these newcomers have wasted no time in accruing some financial weight. Consequently, it could be argued that the club's fans might require a crash course in the subtle art of humility.
The humble assemblage constituting the Rangers ranks swells to a grand total of 29 players. Boasting an average age of 24, they are arguably mere striplings in the grand panorama of life, though perhaps not in the cutthroat realm of football.
The ongoing season has seen Rangers casting a wide net in aspiration, with their fingers in no less than 5 competition-laden pies. They currently sit, rather precariously, one might add, in 3rd place in the Premiership; have fought tooth and nail to reach the Scottish Cup's quarter-finals and the League Cup's semi-finals; whilst their Champions League ambitions were halted at the qualifier play-offs, and their Europa League adventures lie teetering in the league phase. One can only hope such fledgling aspirations don't foster a heaping of hubris within these upstarts.
