QPR’s Mark Warburton issues response to regular messages from Rangers supporters

QPR boss Mark Warburton has issued a response to the regular messages he gets from Rangers fans calling him a “snake” for his Ibrox exit, offering his side of the story and claiming that “no one would walk out on” the Scottish club. 

Warburton took charge of the Glasgow club in June 2015 but in February 2017, it was announced that the Ibrox outfit had accepted his resignation – alongside that of assistant David Weir and head of recruitment Frank McParland.

Speaking on the Sacked In The Morning podcast this week, the 59-year-old opened up about the way he left the club.

He said: “I literally turned on Sky Sports and I saw this yellow headline.

“My phone started jumping. I’m thinking, what’s this? ‘Mark Warburton resigns as Rangers manager’.

“I phoned [Rangers assistant manager at the time] Davie Weir, ‘Davie, I think I’ve just been sacked. He said, ‘so have I’ and I said, ‘why is that?’

“And I looked at the television again and it said: ‘David Weir also resigns’. Then I get a text saying ‘please look at your email account, we accept your resignation’. I have no idea what you’re talking about. And that was it.”

Warburton revealed that he regularly gets messages calling him a “snake” for the manner in which he left Ibrox and offered a response to those fans that are clearly still frustrated.

He said: “No-one would walk out on Rangers. Who in their right mind would walk out on one of the big two [in Glasgow]?

“Especially, when you’re sitting in second [in the Premiership] ahead of a cup match… but that’s how we found out. We found out that we’d resigned. To this day it eats away.

“I’m very fortunate that I have a good job and there’s not a lot of jobs in football; we’re very privileged to manage clubs like Nottingham Forest