None of it is even remotely the fault of Philippe Clement. And yet, the similarities are difficult to ignore nonetheless. The balding, shaven head.
The steely, serious stare. The Gallic twang. Even the surname gives off a whiff of a previous managerial misadventure. That he posed for his first photographs as Rangers manager wearing a pair of jeans may, unfortunately, have added to these Paul Le Guen parallels given that the Frenchman, from day one, never really appeared to have a grasp on what this football club means to its supporters.
Or what the job of leading it truly entails. But what Clement has said and done in his first few days in the job suggests that the Belgian might be a manager of genuine substance rather than another reminder of the difficulties involved in appointing the right man for this very specific job.
Time and time again over the years, the list of custodians of Rangers have taken it in turns to botch their responsibilities whenever they’ve been charged with the task of identifying the man best qualified to put a winning team on the park.