Despairing David Edgar warns motormouth Beale of the consequences

The strain of chronicling a season of failure and misery is taking its toll on David Edgar.

Hosting Heart & Hand used to be fun and enjoyable along the journey but two years after the secret SPFL title win it looks like things are worse than ever.

The freaky nature of that Lockdown season is slowly unravelling, playing in front of supporters isn’t for everyone with most of Micky Beale’s players fearful of the backlash from loyal and demanding bears.

Three defeats in nine weeks from Celtic has destroyed the legacy of the Lockdown heroes, most of them will be remembered as Beale’s Bottlers as Celtic move to within touching distance of the combined trophy haul of both Ibrox clubs.

Yet again it is a hard luck story but after a while you stop thinking that and you look at the failings of the team. The failings of the team is that they give away stupid goals, and they don’t score, today was that in a microcosm.

The goal that we gave away? Jota will never get an easier one because seven Rangers players stop. Honestly, if an amateur team had lost that goal you would be screaming at them. For professional players to lose that is just unacceptable.

And, honestly, when Sakala missed yet another sitter I think that was a lot of us done with a lot of these players. Ryan Kent, in the first half put in one of the worst performances that I’ve ever seen from a Rangers player in a big game, it was an absolute shocker from him. He was subbed at half-time and he was lucky that he even got that far.

Whether or not you feel that Michael Beale is the right man for the job he will be under pressure because Rangers fans can’t accept a manager who can’t beat Celtic, it really is that simple.

I personally think that he has done an OK job, not a great job, not a bad job, an OK job. I think that he’ll get his own players in the summer then we’ll see. He is not going anywhere for a while yet.