Gio should have tendered Rangers resignation because at least the 'Journey' wasn't open to global ridicule - Hugh Keevins

Giovanni van Bronckhorst should have gone home on Wednesday night, slept on the defeat from Liverpool at Ibrox then tendered his resignation on Thursday morning.

He is a good and decent man but the Dutchman’s moral authority to be Rangers’ manager was, to my way of thinking, lost on the back of an ignominious performance and 7-1 loss against Liverpool. There has been an inglorious succession of low moments for Rangers during the wilderness years created by the mismanagement of the club’s financial affairs.

The night when a lead, and a game, was lost to Alloa Athletic at the Indodrill Stadium. The day, 10 years ago this month, when Stirling Albion won against them by a single goal at Forthbank. The time when the hapless Pedro Caixinha went out of Europe to the fourth best team in Luxembourg then went rubbery in the shrubbery outside the home of Progres Niederkorn while under verbal attack from disgusted supporters. But those embarrassing episodes were enacted under circumstances unlikely to induce a state of hysteria.

The club was then on what they like to term the ‘Journey’ through the lower leagues back to the division they left on the back of administration and liquidation. When things happened then it kind of went with the territory. But Liverpool in the Champions League is the stuff of global television audiences and therefore worldwide ridicule.

The television pictures of thousands of Rangers fans streaming out of Ibrox while their team was still three goals short of their final, humiliating tally would be the ones that illustrated the story best of all. Because every individual who turned their back on what was going on and fled into the night was destroying a long-held belief at the same time.

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