I was devastated when the Rangers lost 10 games in a row, and Philippe Clement’s team must not make the same error we did.

In 1998, Rangers went four games too far, and Stuart McCall doesn’t want Clement and his team to make the same error again.

Stuart McCall thought Rangers were headed for a 10-game winning streak after the team defeated Celtic twice in a row.

When the team defeated the Hoops in the Scottish Cup semi-final at Parkhead, an impartial venue back in April 1998, Walter Smith’s struggling team received much-needed confidence. A week later, Jonas Thern’s screamer, a replica of the one he’d scored against Wim Jansen’s team seven days earlier, and a brazen solo goal from Jorg Albertz had the Light Blues leaping to the top of the table once again.

This meant that Smith and company needed just four more victories to seal a ten-year run of dominance and become the Ibrox immortals. In the end, four games was simply too much. The Gers allowed themselves to grow complacent as the finish line drew near after giving it their all in those intense matches against their hated Old Firm rivals—and it cost them their place in history.

While losing at Pittodrie the following week was not good enough, Ally Mitchell’s 90th-minute winner for Kilmarnock in the penultimate game of the season was just as bad, opening the door for Jansen’s team to win the championship on the last day.

McCall still gets chills from that horrific collapse, 26 years later. But the legendary Gers player feels that the current team would do well to reflect on and take a lesson from the tragic lesson his side had to endure as they prepare to play Hibs again on Saturday.

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