Sevco’s magical journey turns sour
Despite being shown the hand of friendship by the footballing authorities the new year has seen a concerted campaign of criticism from the new club at Ibrox.
With only an insolvency event capable of stopping them from gaining promotion to next season’s Championship all should be well at Ibrox as the players and staff anticipate their end of season bonuses.
Last week’s 1-0 win at Airdrie seems to have upset the club prompting Ian Durrant and Bilel Mohsni to use the club website to criticise other clubs.
Ignoring the irony of a headline titled ‘Stick To Your Own Teams‘ first team coach Durrant said: “There has been a little bit of disrespect shown to us but other people should just worry about their own teams rather than worry about Rangers.
“People are saying things about us which don’t really concern them. We know we were poor when we drew with Stranraer and we’ve tried to address that.
“When we got a good result up at Dunfermline in difficult circumstances after some thought our bubble had burst not much was said.
“Within our dressing room we’ve got strong characters and I’d like it placed on record that people should stick to their own teams.
“They can do that and we’ll get on with managing and coaching Rangers. People are saying we should do this and that but we’ll do what we have to do.”
Mohsni was given a second yellow card after the final whistle at Airdrie and missed the win over Stenhousemuir through the suspension.
The Algerian World Cup hopeful said: “After the Airdrie game, I was happy we had won but I was a little bit upset as we had taken a lot of kicks and had been given a lot of free kicks because there were lots of fouls.
“Their right-back swore at me so I swore at him back which I know was stupid but I did it. Their manager walked straight to me and was swearing at me so I swore back at him too.
“I remember Nicky Clark and Ian Black had taken two bad tackles in that game and I was shocked. I can understand why they would react to that because we are humans. Sometimes you are weak and you react.
“I am not being arrogant when I say teams can’t beat us because we are beating them. We have proved this to everyone already.
“But people know after the Dunfermline game the way to play against us is the way they did back then. I think the referees have to protect us.
“Blackie reacted against Airdrie, I reacted and other players will react in the future because we are human beings.”
Earlier this week £800,000-a-year manager Ally McCoist complained that Ian Black needed protection from the hatchet men of League One.