Barry Ferguson: I fought school kids over a box of cereal

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So there I was at Morrisons the other day, looking for a box of Shreddies Max.

I can’t find them and I’m starting to get agitated, walking up and down the cereal aisle, face like thunder. This woman walks up and asks if I need a hand.

She kindly helps me out and points me in the right direction. So I thank her very much and put them in my shopping trolley.

The next thing I see these three teenage boys laughing at me. One of them shouts something I can’t repeat in the pages of a family newspaper and I respond by saying something along the lines of ‘Wee man, I’ll wrap this trolley around your heid and knock you into those f***** Frosties over there!’

Five minutes later I’m at the yogurt fridge. Raging. And I’m looking around to see where they’ve gone.

The same woman comes up and asks me if I’m looking for the three boys. She could tell I was angry and she smiled at me and told me just to leave it. That they were already away.

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And I can’t help but feel as if some of the current players at Rangers need to learn the same lessons. That they need to toughen up mentally.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not condoning for one minute what Kiernan had to deal with during the Ross County match.

A mate of mine was in the main stand and he witnessed the abuse. He said it was pretty savage stuff.

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But if Warburton and his players think they’ve had too much stick from the fans then just wait until they see what happens if Morton put them out of the Cup.

Me? I’ll be taking my team to Ayr United tomorrow looking to become the first Clyde side in something like 40 years to reach the Scottish Cup quarter-finals.

We’re massive underdogs but we want to go there and show that we can play football. And, yes, that fear of losing will be what drives me on.

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