FORMER Rangers midfielder Nicky Law has criticised the unrealistic expectations among the club's supporters and insists there is no atmosphere at home games.
The midfielder, who signed from Motherwell, spent three years at Ibrox, but was not offered a new contract by manager Mark Warburton when his deal ran out this summer.
Law is now at Bradford City under former manager Stuart McCall as the Yorkshire club try to win promotion to the Championship, although they are in something of a sticky patch after three games without a win.
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But Law reckons that pales into insignificance compared to his time at Rangers.
"There is expectation here at Bradford, but I am used to that in my career," Law said. "I was at Rangers so that side doesn’t faze me.
"We have still only lost one game this season. If that is as bad as it gets, I think we will be pretty happy. But, at Rangers, that would be a crisis. We had to win every week, particularly at Ibrox.
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"The fans would turn up and there wasn’t really an atmosphere. Just a case of them saying, ‘We are here and expect the three points, then we go home’.
"Away from home was different, in that the fans got behind us that little bit more. But the expectation is massive up there, even this season now they are back in the Premiership.
"Fans expected Rangers to win the league, even though it wasn’t probably too realistic this season.
"I remember Ian Durrant, one of the coaches at Rangers when I signed, telling me that if Rangers played Barcelona then the fans would expect a win – and Rangers were in the second division at that stage!
"That is how it is up there. I did think, ‘Surely not’. But I saw it for myself. So, a home draw against Southend United like we had last Tuesday isn’t the highest on a crisis list for me."
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