Kris Boyd has become the first Real Rangers Man to attack Dave King.
Sunday’s 4-0 humiliation from Celtic at Hampden proved to be a step too far for most fans who had been gullible enough to believe that the gap with the hoops was closing.
There were plenty of obvious scapegoats at Hampden ranging from Graeme Murty through to Andy Halliday and Alfredo Morelos.
The real villain of the piece wasn’t even at Hampden with Dave King stuck in South Africa fearful that his next trip to the UK will include spending time at Her Majesty’s convenience.
Boyd spent a season inside Sevco playing under Ally McCoist and has never hidden from the fact that playing for Kilmarnock is very much secondary in his footballing interests.
Getting straight to the point in The Sun he opened with: “IT was a shambles, a disgrace and an utter humiliation for Rangers as a football club.
“Graeme Murty and his players will have to take some of the responsibility for what happened on the pitch at Hampden.
“Losing 4-0 to Celtic was embarrassing all right. No one in a Light Blue jersey can hold their heads high for the way they performed because, quite frankly, it wasn’t anywhere near good enough.
“The dire display only proved that many of them shouldn’t even be there.
“I’m sorry, though, the problems at Rangers right now start at the top.
“I have been saying it for months but, in my opinion, Dave King is guilty of gross mismanagement. If you ask me, it’s high time he had some major questions asked of him.
“Although maybe someone on that Ibrox board should just pay him the £20million he supposedly lost to David Murray and watch him go.
“I just don’t think his chairmanship of Rangers has been good enough.
“He sanctioned the appointment of Pedro Caixinha — which was doomed from the very beginning — and was then to blame in the negotiations with Derek McInnes.
“Now Murty is being left to carry the can for King’s incompetence.
“There will be Rangers fans who criticise me for writing this but what’s going on at Ibrox right now hurts me just as much as it hurts any of them.
“Listen, in the season I played for the club in the Championship, I was a disgrace and was rightly shown the door.
“But that was then the opportunity to rebuild — and yet here we are three years on and the club hasn’t moved forward an inch.
“I know some people think I have a personal agenda against King but I couldn’t care less. Fact is, I hate seeing my old club the way it is right now.”
King’s problems run much much deeper than being responsible for getting hammered by Celtic.
If Boyd and others asked more questions of the RRM in the blue room of dignity the answers would terrify him.
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