A dog's dinner of a Rangers team remain a concern to Celtic fans and remember one thing about this takeover – Hugh Keevins

Nothing sums up the dog’s dinner of a season Rangers have endured on the domestic front better than Queen’s Park’s five-goal defeat at home to Airdrie on Wednesday night.

The team who put Rangers out of the Scottish Cup, sabotaging their last chance of winning a trophy, have subsequently binned their manager Callum Davidson.

They might yet find time to get themselves relegated to the third tier of Scottish football while losing the financial backing of Lord Willie Haughey in the process.

Now they’re losing goals a handful at a time to the team who have been rooted to the bottom of the Championship table since the season began.

On reflection, how in the name of God does a club of Rangers’ size contrive to lose to a side like that at Ibrox and yet, concurrently, be in the quarter-finals of the Europa League on undeniable merit?

Rangers are losing the league to Celtic by the length of Sauchiehall Street yet give the impression of living on easy street when it comes to Europe.

In spite of having a dodgy goalkeeper, a porous defence and a tendency to exasperate as much as they exhilarate. Even Jose Mourinho, a man with a phrase to fit any occasion, got confused by it all.

He told Rangers not to celebrate too much after they had beaten his Fenerbahce side in Istanbul and predicted Athletic Bilbao would be too much for them in the last eight. The last act of a desperate man.

But now Barry Ferguson, the beneficiary of, among other things, that cup defeat to Queen’s Park, has arrived at the location that is between a rock and a hard place.

A buffer for the Basque country has to come in the form of a win over Bilbao at Ibrox this week.

And by the time Rangers head to Aberdeen on Sunday, Celtic could already be crowned champions.