Andy Newport's analysis from Ibrox as board must be asking questions following expensive summer.
While the manager made straight for the tunnel at full-time following the briefest of handshakes with Brendan Rodgers, chairman John Bennett and predecessor Douglas Park exchanged terse words. Fair play to the players for forcing themselves to endure a lap of dishonour during which the Ibrox faithful made clear just what they thought. And it wasn’t pretty.
Unlike last season, Beale doesn’t have Ross Wilson and Stewart Robinson to take the flak. This one is on him. Where Rangers go from here is the question the Ibrox board must be asking themselves. The gap may only be four points but Gers have handed their rivals a start they’ve proved incapable of chasing down in recent years.
Instead, it was another massive failure. After losing twice to Celtic at Hampden last term, the Ibrox faithful have been looking for something, anything, to get behind. PSV’s five-goal mauling was bad enough but failing to get one over the weakest Celtic centre-back pairing in living memory might just be fatal for most fans.
The debate on whether it was a foul on Gustaf Lagerbielke as a second goal was chalked off by VAR will rage and rage. But Dessers made contact with the Swede’s ankle.
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