Shattering Rangers disconnect between fans and bungling board is threatening supposed impossible dream - Keith Jackson

For a long while yesterday afternoon it seemed that Rangers’ wonky commercial wing had picked the perfect day to showcase their commemorative all white kit.

If you’re going to surrender a league title then you might as well dress your team up appropriately for the occasion and for 45 minutes or more at Dens Park that’s precisely what appeared to be happening in a game against a side anchored to the bottom of the division.

What was supposed to be a formality - as well as a celebration of 150 years and a nod to the club’s founding fathers - turned into a day of self destruction in Dundee as, off the pitch, fans railed angrily against the Gallant Profiteers inside their own boardroom and, on it, Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s players completely forgot how to function amid an avalanche of loo rolls and tennis balls.

That they managed to unscramble their senses and dig themselves out an enormous hole in the second half with goals from Aaron Ramsey and Connor Goldson will serve as a huge relief to Van Bronckhorst who must have been fearing the worst given his side’s lacklustre, error strewn approach.

By half time it did look very much as if Rangers would leave Tayside needing snookers to have any chance of holding onto their cherished title as they flirted with the notion of falling six points behind Celtic at the top of the table with only seven games left and a chasm of a goal difference against them.

But, credit where it is due, at least Van Bronckhorst and his men recognised the urgency of the situation and managed to do something meaningful about fixing it because some of them may have felt as if their work was done for the week in Belgrade on Thursday night when they made it into the quarter finals of the Europa League.