Rangers star blames manager for four-year international exile

first Old Firm derby as the Rangers manager, with Hamza Igamane’s 88th-minute winner silencing the Celtic Park crowd in front of 2,500 away supporters on Sunday (16 March)

While the result does not change the picture of the Premiership title race in the grand scheme of things, with Brendan Rodgers’ side still sitting 13 points clear, it may have boosted Ferguson’s chances of landing the permanent manager job at Ibrox.

Meanwhile, many Celtic fans have been trying to downplay Rangers’ first win at Parkhead in five years by suggesting that the game did not give them an incentive to win.

However, Boyd has torn that argument to shreds by describing it as “rubbish” and insisting that the stakes are always high in an Old Firm game.

The Sky Sports pundit also pointed out how the Celtic fans were thrilled when Reo Hatate equalised for the Bhoys in the second half, only to be silenced by Igamane later.

“History tells you it’s not an easy place to go, doesn’t it?”, Boyd said on the Scottish Sun’s Go Ballistic show (17 March).

“Five years since the last victory there, so to be able to turn it around [is impressive from Ferguson].

“I know there are people out there saying, ‘Celtic are 13 points clear, there is no edge’. Trust me, that is the biggest load of rubbish when it comes to an Old Firm game.

“Celtic were really quiet yesterday [Sunday; ed.]. The fans, as soon as they got it back to 2-2, they were up for it singing and it mattered something then, and then all of a sudden they lost the third one and it didn’t, it became irrelevant again.”

Boyd has not been passing up the opportunity to rub salt into Celtic’s wounds since Rangers walked out of Parkhead with all three points.