Philippe Clement teetering on Rangers brink as former star issues major Hampden warning

Under-fire Rangers boss Philippe Clement will be left teetering on the brink of the sack if his side slip up at Hampden this weekend, according to former Ibrox star Billy Dodds.

The Belgian boss is facing a furious backlash from supporters after his side dropped nine points off title frontrunners Aberdeen and Celtic. Wednesday night’s damaging defeat to Jimmy Thelin’s rampant Reds was the final straw for a growing portion of the Gers fanbase.

For others, it was the Belgian boss’ claim that his side had put in one of their best performances of the season - despite being out played for the whole of the first half and parts of the second. And Dodds reckons another loss to Motherwell in Sunday’s Premier Sports Cup semi-final could well force the Rangers board to come to the same conclusion too.

The former Scotland striker said: “If anything goes wrong in the semi, I think it's getting to that time where Philippe Clement will know he's on the brink. It doesn't take me to tell you that Clement will know he's in trouble if anything goes wrong against Motherwell.

“After seeing the fans at Kilmarnock and then seeing them at Pittodrie on Wednesday night, I think he'll know.

“And that's why he probably elaborated too long after the game. If it was me, I’d have tried to keep it simple. But it looks as if he's trying to find a way to appease them.

“The fans don't want to hear that, though. They just want to see action on the pitch now. That’s where it’s at now.”

Clement has been in post for just over a year. He made an immediate impression on the Ibrox faithful when first appointed as he took a team going nowhere under Michael Beale and transformed into one that was able to lift the League Cup, qualify for the last 16 of the Europa