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Nothing sums up the dog’s dinner of a season Rangers have endured on the domestic front better than Queen’s Park’s five-goal defeat at home to Airdrie on Wednesday night.
The team who put Rangers out of the Scottish Cup, sabotaging their last chance of winning a trophy, have subsequently binned their manager Callum DavidsonNow they’re losing goals a handful at a time to the team who have been rooted to the bottom of the Championship table since the season began.
On reflection, how in the name of God does a club of Rangers’ size contrive to lose to a side like that at Ibrox and yet, concurrently, be in the quarter-finals of the Europa League on undeniable merit?
Rangers are losing the league to Celtic by the length of Sauchiehall Street yet give the impression of living on easy street when it comes to Europe.
Top But now Barry Ferguson, the beneficiary of, among other things, that cup defeat to Queen’s Park, has arrived at the location that is between a rock and a hard place.
A buffer for the Basque country has to come in the form of a win over Bilbao at Ibrox this week.
And by the time Rangers head to Aberdeen on Sunday, Celtic could already be crowned champions.
The last time Rangers were at Pittodrie, in October, the home support were chanting about winning the league themselves
Of course, Jimmy Thelin’s star has been on the wane since then.
But, such is the rancorous nature of the clubs’ rivalry, it would be in the ascendancy again if Dons inflict another blow after Celtic landed their 13th title out of the last 14.
Assuming, of course, the defending champions beat St Johnstone in Perth today and Kilmarnock at home n
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