Rangers ‘hungry for more’ says Connor Goldson

The big stopper joined his Gers team-mates at the club’s Auchenhowie training base to watch as Old Firm rivals Celtic took on Dundee United looking for a win that would have forced the title race onto next week’s derby clash at Parkhead.

But when the Hoops could only claim a draw, that was the signal for wild celebrations as Steven Gerrard’s Light Blues were crowned kings of Scotland for the 55th time.

“It was amazing,” said the former Brighton centre-back as he reflected on the moment he knew his team had finally ended the club’s 10-year wait for silverware. “I still don’t think it has sunk in properly what we have actually achieved.

“It is a weird one, when I have won things in the past, you are going on holiday and going away straight away with your family.

“We are only in March and there is a lot of the season still to play. It is a weird one but the focus has got straight back on football and straight back on this huge Europa League tie that we have got ahead of us against Slavia Prague.

“At the same time, I have still got goosebumps thinking about it. It was amazing and probably the best day of my career.

“Was this part of the vision the gaffer sold to me when I signed back in 2018? Yeah, it was. Did I think it would be three years later? Probably not.

“I didn’t realise how far behind Rangers were until I came up here and actually played that first season. You do have doubts.

“But, at the same time, we have worked our socks off and the recruitment has been brilliant. You look at the club I am in today, and it is 100 times better than the club that I joined.

“That is not just playing squad, it is around the place and what has been done in the canteen, what has been done at the training ground, what has been done at Ibrox.

“The whole place has improved and that is credit to every single staff member that works here to the board and the chairman to put in what it takes to make this club successful. It has paid off.”

Goldson said ahead of tonight’s Slavia Prague clash: “We are definitely hungry for more...the pressure that now comes with being champions is completely different to chasing...now we need to go on and prove that we are worthy of being champions and that starts this season.”

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