After last year we'll be treating Annan like Celtic

LIAM KELLY certainly hasn't forgotten the nightmare Rangers went through 12 months ago.

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And the Light Blues backup keeper hopes the rest of his squad remember the painful lesson of what can happen when standards slip at Ibrox.

Rangers are resurgent now under Danny Rohl after a horror start to the campaign.

But only Russell Martin's record-equalling Brugge battering comes close to the humiliation heaped upon the club this time last year as Philippe Clement's side crashed out of Scottish Cup at the hands of Championship strugglers Queen's Park.

That mortifying spectacle - a result that ranks alongside Berwick Rangers in the Ibrox hall of shame - began with Spiders sub Seb Drozd firing past Kelly and ended with keeper Calum Ferrie batting away James Tavernier’s stoppage-time penalty.

Twelve months on, memories of that bleak afternoon still make Kelly wince.

Which is why the 29-year-old is hellbent on making sure there is no repeat when League Two part-timers Annan Athletic visit Govan for this term's opening Cup clash.

Kelly - who will make just his second appearance of the season in the fourth-round clash — said: “It’s a game we'll be taking absolutely 100 per cent serious.