It wasn’t the start Rangers were hoping for to their Europa League campaign as they suffered a 1-0 loss at home to Genk, as the pressure intensifies on under-fire boss Russell Martin.
The Light Blues have only managed to win four of their last 14 games, and last night 38,000 were in attendance, which was the lowest turnout for a European game at Ibrox since returning to the Scottish Premiership nine years ago.
The Rangers faithful made their feelings clear to Martin with a chorus of boos at fulltime and chants for him to ‘get to f***’.
Time is certainly running out for the 39-year-old, and Ally McCoist believes that is the case.
Speaking on TNT Sports, the footballing legend said he can’t see things improving anytime soon, whilst Martin is still in the role as head coach:
“It clearly hasn’t been good enough, and it isn’t good enough, and tonight was another disappointment.
“You can point to the red card, the deserved red card, but it goes deeper than that. The level of performances haven’t been good enough.
“I just felt coming into the stadium tonight, you could’ve blown me away, it was nothing like a normal atmosphere of any game, never mind a European game here at Ibrox.
“There was an apathy, I don’t know. There was just no life about the place, you know, actually on or off the pitch, which is really, really concerning.
“The manager is in trouble, the manager is in big trouble because something has to change, and something has to change dramatically, and on the current evidence. Sadly, I can’t see it happening.”
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It needs somebody with CHARISMA to take on the roll.
This man couldn’t run a pissup in a brewery.
Get someone in that theplayers respect and will follow follow to take the team back to the top in Scottish football.