Rangers are eating themselves alive with petty Dave King and Douglas Park boardroom squabble - Keith Jackson

Maybe it’s time for Douglas Park and Dave King to settle things by whipping them out on the Ibrox boardroom table.

And then, once they’ve finally established which of them has the biggest chip on his shoulder, both men ought to leave by the nearest exit, preferably taking their tone-deaf head of communications with them.

As a matter of fact, the more Rangers eat themselves alive in full view the harder it becomes to make a decent argument for any of the main protagonists surviving this unedifying PR disaster.

What began with an ill thought out money-making scheme to pimp the Old Firm derby Down Under has mutated into a full scale revolt with Park and King now openly clubbing one another over the head with their own egos.

If they paused for just a moment to consider the reputational damage they are wreaking on their own club then surely they would do the right thing and call some sort of truce.

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But it seems as if these men are so wrapped up in their own self-importance they have lost any sense of perspective.

King probably thought he was pulling some kind of flanker last week when allowed his latest cash offer to become public knowledge.

He wanted it to be known that he is prepared to stump