GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 13: Rangers Head Coach Russell Martin during a William Hill Premiership match between Rangers and Heart of Midlothian at Ibrox Stadium, on September 13, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Ibrox fan media was red hot on Saturday night as the furious bears waited and waited for the club statement binning their vegan, Buddhist manager.
The guy that refuses to wear a club blazer or brogues, an old pair of trainers and yesterday’s t-shirt or jumper is the matchday uniform for Russell Martin.
And he is despised and detested for it.
The chants around Ibrox were easy to understand but despite the demands of the loyal bears there is no sign that Russell Martin is getting sacked in the morning.
It will be another ordinary Sunday morning for the Ibrox boss of slipping into his sandals and housecoat for a breakfast of muesli as he flicks through the pages of The Observer with their Environmental section taking preference over the Sports pages.
Meanwhile out there is Ibrox cyberspace bears are battling to demonstrate who is the most angered and outraged of them all.
Loving the meltdown ??? pic.twitter.com/Y6Tz18epWL
— celtic Jaime ? (@celtic_jaime) September 13, 2025
Some folk have suggested that Martin the manager and Martin the podcast host bear more than a passing similarity.
Day in, day out Martin hosts the Rangers Rabble, often three shows a day with Celtic fans providing a welcome spike to traffic on a Saturday evening.
While hosting and leading with his anger levels he kept an eye on Twitter for the statement that he was assured was imminent.
Some cruel Celtic fans joined the chat to claim that he had been sacked, some claimed that Tavpen and Super Jack had confronted their hipster manager after the match in the dressing room. Not true.
The anger will continue today, through the week and on until the inevitable autumn managerial change is made.
After being sceptical of the new manager they’ll be won over because he speaks well in the media conference- as the cycle gets underway.
Just 48 hours ago the bears were celebrating winning the International Break trophy, lucky Martin is now set to pick up his pay off even quicker than Agent Caixinha in 2017.
— Tam sellic son (@TamseIIicsonIII) September 13, 2025
I believe that board do back him, beautiful stuff, he was asked about his new signings and how Sevco are used to winning trophies et on BBC Scotland, he replied with, not that’s not the case, one league title in 15yrs and a couple of cups, hahaha, truthful, the Orcs are fkn raging,he’s getting time from the Yanks, they just don’t get it, we are at a low but they are an absolute basket case
15 years ? I don’t think so
Auld Spew Heevins at again today with his post match take down of Sevco and their comedian manager Steve Martin,but he still couldn’t resist having to throw our Clubs name into the story,instead of focusing all of the article on sevco.
He has totally thrown Martin under the bus and has tool the players side of things especially the player being left out of the ibrox squad completely,the player we are talking about is the player with wee man syndrome aka Ronaldo Raskin.
Heevins has backed Raskin up and yet the rumours doing the rounds are that he leaked the sevco team to play Brugge,sevco’s opponents in the final qualifying round for to get into the big guys playground,Wee Ronaldo also burst into the dressing challenging Martin in front of the rest of the squad regarding him also dropping the Morrocan Messi at the same time.
Now tell what other club manager would put up with being undermined in front of all your staff and there woukd be no consequences,if that was the case Martin would never be picking another team again if he was to allow everyone walk all over like Ronaldo Raskin and his wee man syndrome trying to give it Billy big baws.
Anyway what happened to all these magician magic players that Martin signed readyvto hit the ground running,all ready to make it into their countries world cup squads for next year,BOOM!
All gone in a puff of smoke.
Tofu and the truth.
The huns won’t like that.
All this stuff about 47 years since they had as poor a start … that year they won the Scottish Cup, League Cup and the Glasgow Cup, and were only 3 points behind Celtic in the league. Their fans’ ignorance of their own history is outstanding.
Editor: First match July 2012 Brechin City away.
Beat me to it Joe. Amazing the the number of Celtic fans that seem to have accepted the Survival myth/lie when it comes to talking about the ‘The Tribute Act’.
Never let them forget that they are a New Club. Always challenge the ‘Lie’.
I was being ironic, but point taken 🙂
I honestly think it’s down to Martin?
If – if – he can handle the mounting personal abuse, then he’s not for walking away.
He’s probably a couple of decent results away from at least calming down the baying mob… and buying time?
I’ll miss him when he goes…
I don’t think he’ll survive if The Hi-Bees dump them outta The League Cup on Saturday sadly !