It wasn’t the 4-0 defeat at Celtic Park a few months after the 3-0 hammering. It wasn’t the 4-0 defeat to Ajax or even the 7-1 home loss to Liverpool.
Giovanni could have survived all that but after falling nine points behind Celtic the sound of hoops fans serenading the Dutchman on Saturday was just too much for one traumatised bear.
Back in May they were chanting through Seville for their manager. Apparently better than Mister Gerrard who had left the bears in the lurch with a midweek shift to join Aston Villa.
After a stint in China followed by a year out of work everything fell perfectly for van Bronckhorst when he negotiated a three and a half year contract.
Unfortunately for the Ibrox club none of the Dutch golden generation of players has been able to repeat their playing success in management.
Now it is only the pay-off that is keeping van Bronckhorst on the payroll at Ibrox with fans checking hourly for that club statement or yellow bar on Sky Sports News that the Gio experiment has been brought to an undignified end.
@RangersFC take note of how we are seen across the city when their fans are singing our managers name, this is an unacceptable position and needs to be addressed now @RangersReview55 @ibroxrocks @Club1872rfc @UnionBears_07 https://t.co/jmQOFfh6GI
— Jamie Lawson (@JamieLawson85) November 13, 2022
Know your place ? pic.twitter.com/IfbKdMOHmG
— Billyballoonhead (@Billyballoonhe2) November 13, 2022
— David Breen (@David__1888) November 14, 2022
Walking out of Celtic Park on Saturday listening to our fans singing Gio’s name was brilliant. A total insult to him and his ? club ?
— CHAMPIONS ? (@Celtic67Champs) November 14, 2022
— RicardoMonteglin (@rickysproule74) November 14, 2022
At the risk of repetition, in the end they always ‘bite the hand…’