Deluded Rangers fans are stuck in the past and here's why I'm staggered by their reaction to Russell Martin – Chris Sutton

Russell Martin has barely got his feet under the desk at Ibrox – yet even his choice of FOOTWEAR has copped flak from some Rangers fans.

It shows you what he’s up against. Martin committed the cardinal sin of not slipping on a pair of brogues for his unveiling the other day and it was just another thing to throw at the incoming head coach.

The response from some to his appointment has been staggering. It reeks to me of entitlement – and misguided entitlement in that.

It seems to me there’s a large element who didn’t want Martin to get the gig and it’s going to take a huge effort to win them over.

But I’d like to know, who did they expect to get the job?

In fact, we know the answer. I suspect some of them actually thought there was a chance Jose Mourinho was going to walk up the marble staircase this summer.

If not Jose, then Steven Gerrard. Or Davide Ancelotti – who obviously played Rangers like a piccolo.

Either way, Rangers felt it was going to be some other big name, top level European coach in the hot seat.

And now noses are out of joint that it’s the guy who got sacked by Southampton months ago after a wretched time in the Premier League.

They are coming at it the wrong way – and they are clearly stuck in the past.

This isn’t the Rangers team of the nineties. They are not going to get an elite European boss like Dick Advocaat strolling in.

They are DELUDED.

They’ve barely won a trophy for more than 10 years and there’s another major rebuilding job required.

And it’s going to take time. Martin is as good as anyone to do it.

He’s got decent experience as a manager. He had a tough job at MK Dons but he kept them up and progressed. It was similar at Swansea and then, don’t forget, he did get Southampton promoted