Dear oh dear!
WHen Steven Gerrard resigned from Rangers last season, it seemed to be immense good fortune that Giovanni Van Bronckhorst was a free agent and willing to come. And the initial results were good. Alas, once we got past the winter break the wheels started to come off - for the fourth year in a row, the league was decided by one team having a meltdown in form while the other went fron strength to strength.
But last season there were a couple of mitigating factors: the signings made in January, that on paper were excellent, proved to be disastrously poor; and the run in the Europa League covered a lot of troubles.
Then there was the summer, a chance to rebuild, and a chance for GvB to really put his mark on the team. Early signs were promising, with the team managing to qualify for the Champions League with some impressive performances.
And then the wheels well and truly came off: a flood of bad performances, a shockingly poor Champions League campaign, poor performances in the league, and now a defeat that may put the league beyond them.
At the time of writing, Giovanni Van Bronckhorst is still Rangers manager. If I waited to post this until tomorrow, there's a decent chance that that would not be the case. Though perhaps that precipitous - the board might yet give him until the break for the World Cup and then decide.
But I really can't see any way back for GvB or any way to turn this around - he's basically reliant on a collapse from Celtic, which isn't impossible but really doesn't look likely.
I've no idea who they'd replace him with, though.
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