Ian Durrant

[BattleFever1872]

My hero

Just a special talent & an all round tremendous wee guy

I’ve met him a few times, I have proudly told him he is my hero as well & thanked him for everything he gave to the club on & off the field

You’d never guess with your name haha! First time I met him was Gretna away can’t remeber which ground it was played at

 

[Dbear 65]

Remember working with a dhim when wee Durranty was flying..... Aye! he's no bad but couldny lace McStays boots!!...... deadly serious!

 

[The jackall]

I still laugh my tits off at the way he runs past Cooper after Coop sets him up for that goal against them

A nice wee shimmy

Coop left standing with his arms up lol

 

[Blackpool Dave]

He was featuring at a sportsmans dinner in Blackpool last night with Souness and Bobby Tait, what a cracking guy, and what a fantastic night.

Yup super said it was a cracking night going along Sat to pioneer to watch our game and have a beer or 10

 

[hawkfalcons]

Simpson......should have been given a sine die sentence for the intentional assault on ID.

Utterly disgusting that he got off with it.

and he only got a booking for that tackle believe it or not

 

[Blackpool Dave]

I feel sorry for younger bears I was very lucky to see durranty in his prime what a footballer he was

 

[The Moonlighter]

An incredible player and a wonderful talent.

One of our own.

 

[Beer Belly Loyal]

A lot of references to 'that tackle' - for the benefit of our younger fans who haven't seen it, here it is.

That's not a tackle...it's an assault!

 

[BobbyShearer55-65]

A blistering talent and a true Ranger.

Simpson *spits* should have been sent to prison for that criminal assault on him.

 

[The jackall]

Was that one of the Old Firm Shame Games? After al, two Celtic players were sent off or is it only when Rangers get players sent off that it is a Shame Game?

That was beautiful

 

[Highland Gers]

What a talent he was-just brilliant too watch.

Cooper was fantastic in that game-another brilliant talent on his game

Also forgot what a dirty bas Aitken was!

 

[The jackall]

A lot of references to 'that tackle' - for the benefit of our younger fans who haven't seen it, here it is.

That's not a tackle...it's an assault!

Fukin clown

Was never a footballer won %^*& all with a %^*& all club

 

[spotlight]

What a talent.

 

[Blue Lou Boyle]

He nearly did for us in 92.

Very true.

He had (imo) his best season post injury in 92/93 season.

Was a regular in that brillant euro run (scoring 3 goals) and helped us win the treble as well.

Simpsons mob finished 2nd to us in all 3 domestic trophies that season.

 

[Mackania]

His performance at the home game vs Leeds was incredible.

 

[arnietac1]

Thanks mate I actually thought you meant at youth level not under 21s.
I played football with Ian all through school that’s why I was asking.

Bellahouston Sec?
I played against Ian all through Secondary as i played for Penilee Sec.
I was always amazed at how may pupils stayed to watch him and the school play.
In 4th year if i remember you gubbed us 4.1 and he just glided over that red ash pitch.
He never stopped moving and his first touch was fantastic.
Played with him a few times with Glasgow Utd as well.
A loss to football.
I tell any fan who didnt see him that if it was not for Simpson fans today would be talking him in the same way we talk of Baxter, Law, Dalglish, Bremner, Souness and so on.
A lost genius.

 

[Blue 9]

Quite simply an outstanding footballer .
Had it happened to any other team,the thug Simpson would have never kicked another ball.

 

[Carson’s chosen few]

Broke my hand on the morning of that game, spent my time in casualty at Sou Gen getting a stookie on before rushing to Hampden just got in for ko.

Bro in law who had set about my wee heavily pregnant sis in law the previous night had a very sore face for a few weeks afterwards.

They still together , nosy @unt loyal

 

[womble3]

Probably the most talented Scottish footballer of his generation and afterwards.
One of the most ridiculous thing about Aberdeen dans glorifying his injury is he would have been a world class midfielder playing for their beloved Scotland during 80/90's.

No player has came close I get slated for this but Durrant was better than Gazza

 

[TheMilster]

They still together , nosy @unt loyal

No, but she did stay with him for about another 10 years or so taking regular beatings from the little ned bastard.

 

[Carson’s chosen few]

No, but she did stay with him for about another 10 years or so taking regular beatings from the little ned bastard.

That is shocking

 

[wakerickman]

From watching the Fergie video yesterday this was on as the next one.

The wee man was sensational. He glided across the pitch effortlessly.

Great way to spend an hour. What a fine player Ian Durrant was. Amazing to see so many Rangers greats too. Hopefully we're not too far away from hitting the heady heights again.

 

[Gibbonbear]

Simpson......should have been given a sine die sentence for the intentional assault on ID.

Utterly disgusting that he got off with it.

Totally agree looking at the photos of Simpson going in for that tackle there was clearly only one intention in the mind of Simpson and that was to damage a fellow professional and it is to Simpson's eternal shame that he prevented one of Rangers and Scotland's outstanding prospects from fulfilling his true potential

 

[Bermondsey Wall West]

It’s strange. I remember him coming back and thinking he wasn’t the same, but the video brought back so many memories and he might have been changed as a player in terms of style but he was still a Roll Royce.

 

[Kylegib]

Fukin clown

Was never a footballer won %^*& all with a %^*& all club

Whilst in no way am I praising the animal Simpson, I'm sure he was part of the Aberdeen side that won the ECWC. That tackle is the worst I've ever seen in Scottish football and Durrant did exceptionally well to come back from the injury. I still believe that Durrant was world class even after the horrific injury.

 

[womble3]

Thanks mate I actually thought you meant at youth level not under 21s.
I played football with Ian all thru school that’s why I was asking.

I was speaking to a guy in the pub at the toll last week says Durrants brother was a better footballer when they were younger any truth in that

 

[Plantation pioneer]

I was speaking to a guy in the pub at the toll last week says Durrants brother was a better footballer when they were younger any truth in that

Which one ? Alan and Jamie were both very good players but different to Ian.
Alan played at East Stirling and Coatbridge CC.
At the time the player I thought would have been a top player was a lad called Rashid, think he went to Kilmarnock but never seemed to make it.
Ian was very close to going to QP as our PE teacher was a coach there.

 

[simply_the_best]

My first rangers - them game

I was about to mention this game, quite incredibly the only Cup final I've been to v Them. Durrant's goal is stunning

 

[KopGer]

My abiding memory of Ian Durrant isn’t the Aberdeen Skol Cup Final - my first with my now departed Dad.

It’s not even THAT goal in Marseille, brilliant though it was.

It’s of a guy who suffered an injury so horrendous that, by rights, he should never have made it back. That player he was was gone. Others would have chucked it.

Not Durranty. He worked harder, comparatively, than any other Rangers player of my era to get fit and get back playing for the team he and I love. He also worked out how to be a completely different type of player than the pre injury demon he was and STILL made telling contributions that are indelibly inked into Rangers history.

He’s one of the bravest, gutsiest and finest Rangers of his - or any - generation for vastly different reasons than most that find themselves on the pedestal.

 

[KopGer]

Whilst in no way am I praising the animal Simpson, I'm sure he was part of the Aberdeen side that won the ECWC.

And that means what exactly? I’d rather praise Hitler or Stalin than that see you next Tuesday.

 

[Tommy]

Ian Durrant & Derek Ferguson could've been rangers equivalent of xavi and iniesta they were that good but injury and a loss of focus robbed us of years of greatness.
Durrant in particular,could've played in ANY TEAM IN EUROPE at his peak and more than held his own.

 

[Kylegib]

And that means what exactly? I’d rather praise Hitler or Stalin than that see you next Tuesday.

Jezzo m8 if you read what I was replying to you'd see I stated Simpson is an animal for that tackle that could have ended a fellow professional player's career. The poster stated that Simpson had won nothing with Aberdeen and all I meant was he won the ECWC with them.

 

[KopGer]

Jezzo m8 if you read what I was replying to you'd see I stated Simpson is an animal for that tackle that could have ended a fellow professional player's career. The poster stated that Simpson had won nothing with Aberdeen and all I meant was he won the ECWC with them.

Fair enough, it’s an emotive subject.

 

[150EdmistonDrive]

I always remember his run down the wing in the 92nd minute against Celtic when we were down to 9 men to set up Gough's equaliser. What a player.

That run and cross typified Durranty, not only could he play but he never gave up. The noise when Goughie scored was like a supersonic jet during take off!

 

[Agathon]

i'll never forget that 3 nil game at Ibrox when he played for killie he destroyed our midfield

 

[So Mote It Be]

Love the wee man.

Blue
White
Dynamite

 

[The simshill one]

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Tremendous player and a winner. Loved big bomber's face celebrating the equaliser over in Marseille.

 

[newvalleyloyal]

Ian Durrant was quite simply a magnificent footballing by far and away the best talent produced by Scotland in the past 30 years. He was good enough to adapt and change his game after that horrific injury so that he still had a decent career in the game. Not many more could have done that.
He also scored many classy and important goals. My own favourite was the second goal in the 3-3 League Cup final against Aberdeen. Quite simply a wonderful goal.
He came up to our Supporters Club last year and he was a total gentleman with some great tales to tell. A pleasure to have seem him playing and a pleasure to have met him

 

[Number 4]

Absolute Rangers porn.

That inside pass from Cooper at the start, to John Browns face chasing the wee man celebrating in Marseille.

Great clip.

 

[Alan_C]

Wonderful player and an absolute diamond of a guy.

Await the “cool story bro” replies but a quick story to show the measure of the man.

Just after the injury, his brother Alan played with my dad’s team (Coatbridge CC) and my dad was going in to pick him up and knew Iain would be there so as a mega excited 8/9 desperate to meet him he took me along.

Bear in mind he was only 21/22 at the time and potentially facing his career being over, he took the time to sit and chat with me and gave me a Norway strip he had swapped after an international. It’s a gesture I’ll never forget and only really fully appreciated once I was older.

Legend doesn’t even come close

 

[Woodrow Call]

We'd be calling body language experts for that these days

It was always a Durrant thing to head for the east enclosure if he scored at the Copland. This is a boy from KP so his mates were probably in there. Said on his DVD that afterwards he thought aw naw av blanked the legend.