Rangers fans’ reaction to Celtic defeat was worst EVER and I played in Progres humiliation

From being bushwhacked by Progress to annihilated at Ibrox by Brendan Rodgers’ five-star Celtic, Kenny Miller knows exactly how it feels to be on the sharp end of a Rangers rebuke.

But the former Gers hero reckons he’s never seen anything like the bitter backlash Michael Beale and his team suffered on Sunday. The Light Blues legions went tonto as the season’s opening Old Firm clash resulted in their side coming up second best yet again.

The 1-0 defeat to Rodgers’ Hoops was a defeat too far for large sections of a support that have already had their faith in Beale shaken by last season’s repeated missed chances and the humiliation in Holland they were put through while crashing out of the year's Champions League. Beale didn’t hang about to listen to the furious outburst that greeted Sunday's final whistle as darted down the tunnel.

But the Londoner can’t hide from the fact he’s under huge pressure now having allowed Celtic to spring four points clear just four Premiership games in. Ex-Ibrox striker Miller can sympathise with the manager’s situation having also found himself in the Bears’ bad books a few times during his three spells at the club.

And he warned there’s only one way out of the tight spot Beale and his team are now holed up in.

“They have to win games, it’s that simple,” said Miller. “The next game at home to St Johnstone, you’ve got to win it. I wouldn’t like to be in that dressing room if he doesn’t. You don’t get time in Glasgow, I understand that. But you actually get less time now than what you probably did.

“I remember one year there when we drew three games in a row under Walter Smith. That was a real pressure situation. Yet we went on to win the league. If I remember the 2008-09 season, I think we