Rangers have confirmed that Russell Martin has been relieved of his duties by the Ibrox club. Falkirk held Rangers to a draw at the Falkirk Stadium, resulting in the team bus being blocked from leaving.
Celtic helped pile further pressure on Martin with a late winner, that took the Scottish Champions nine points ahead of their city rivals.
In a statement on Sunday evening, Rangers confirmed that they had taken the decision to pull the trigger on Martin.
“RANGERS Football Club confirms that it has parted company with Head Coach, Russell Martin.
“While all transition periods require some time, results have not met the club’s expectations.
“Assistant Head Coach, Matt Gill, and First-Team Coach, Mike Williamson, will also be departing.
“Russell and his staff have worked exceptionally hard throughout their time at the club. We thank them for their efforts and wish them well for the future.
“Further updates from the club will follow in due course.”
There were troubling scenes after the game with Martin being forced to leave in a car; however, it now appears that this has been because he was relieved of his duties.
Martin took charge of 17 games in all competitions, winning 5 and losing 6. Although, he was on the receiving end of some awful abuse from the Rangers support despite clearly struggling in the role.
Celtic will face Rangers in the Premier Sports Cup Semi Final at Hampden in November. It remains to be seen who will be in the Rangers dugout when the sides meet at the National Stadium.
We have managerial issues of our own we need to resolve!
Oddly enough, they had a guy who can’t manage but really wanted to be their manager!
We have a guy who can manage but doesn’t want to be ours!
Go figure!
They have fans that want to really support their team, we have a bunch of morons who are a detriment to our progress!
They couldn’t buy a trophy, and believe me, they try very hard!, and we throw them away for other teams to win them!
I thought Russel was doing a great job at the bigot dome ” who will they get to be there saviour there is few duds still without a club.
Instead of gloating over Rangers problems the Celtic support (of which I am part of) should get behind our own team and give them the match day vocal backing that we are renowned for. Yes the board got it wrong in the transfer window (and constantly seem to do so imo) but withdrawing our support doesn’t help the team on the pitch on any given day! Let’s get together and support The Bhoys and push them on to where we belong at the top of the league!! Hail Hail