With Ibrox closed for the foreseeable future the last thing that Executive Chairman John Bennett wanted to hear was the dramatic comments from Clement in Holland last weekend.
Last summer McGowan and his colleagues could still salvage something from the Beale Revolution! The Brains Behind Gerrard produced plenty of quotes while Todd Cantwell and Nico Raskin demonstrated in a dead rubber that things would be vey different at Next Season FC.
You can’t get away with it these days- MSM reporter admits fan/social media has trashed his industry
The proliferation of fan podcasts, social media and supporter messageboards mean that every action and every word is analysed to the nth degree, in a manner unencumbered by the politics and reserve of many mainstream observers. The world, in short, has moved on.
The moment that you start to think of six or eight (games) or four weeks to go, or five weeks to go and then it is holiday then you become in the sh*t. That’s the worse thing you can do, sorry to you that I use that word. I’m too…
In his 25th SPFL match in charge at Ibrox Philippe Clement has seen his side awarded an incredible 15 penalties.
There was no grudging congratulations to County boss Don Cowie, no thanks to the hate-filled travelling support and no words of wisdom to share with the players with Fabio Silva the only player involved to be signed by the Belgian.
I’m not entirely sure why Rangers feel the need to have gone so robust, they may well be irritated, disappointed and playing to the gallery to the 4,000 fans they would’ve brought to the Dundee game but I think it’s a bit ridiculous and hypocritical.
It seems that when it comes to news stories from football conferences the tough questions will only be asked to one Glasgow club.
So for me it’s normal. If I listened to media and press then we would be in constant crisis mode and constant fear of Rangers. But it’s the fifth manager now.
I’ve got closer to the operations over the last six months, kicking the tyres etc. That £10.5m has to go away.