GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JUNE 05: Russell Martin is unveiled as the new Head Coach of Rangers Football Club at Ibrox Stadium alongside Rangers Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell, on June 05, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Kev Thelwel has refuelled the Ibrox paranoia over the potential beheading of Jack Butland at Hampden.
Fortunately the former Crystal Palace flop survived unscathed. He has played in two matches since the Hampden incident.
Thelwell took to ‘Rangers TV’ this morning. In his last address he told loyal bears that Russell Martin was the greatest coach that he has ever worked with.
BACKGROUND CHECK
The League Cup semi-final was marred by horrific decisions from Nick Walsh, backed up by Steven McLean and Andrew Dallas.
Walsh is Deputy Head Teacher at Boclair Academy, the partner school for the Murray Park starlets.
McLean refereed the 2015 Josh Meekings Scottish Cup semi-final. His brother Brian was a former Rangers youth star.
Dallas is the son of Hugh, he owes his entire career to Daddy. In February 2019 he awarded four penalties against St Mirren at Ibrox.
Apparently they were involved in the dark arts at Hampden against the 2012 Ibrox Tribute Act.
So dark that Derek Cornelius and Mohamed Diomande weren’t sent off. No penalties were awarded for incidents involving Reo Hatate and Michel Ange Balikwisha.
The most suspicious of manual VAR lines were used to disallow an own goal from Nicky Raskin.
Legacy media outlets have ignored the above. This morning Thelwell delivered fresh quotes to fuel the paranoia triggered from Hampden.
? Watch an exclusive new @RangersTV interview with Sporting Director, Kevin Thelwell. pic.twitter.com/5CoexWrM0U
— Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) November 15, 2025
The Rangers Review is the most loyal of messengers. No questioning.
Kevin Thelwell: “I think we all feel like it’s a dangerous precedent to be saying that striking somebody on the head is nothing short of a red card.”
Rangers will hold further talks with the SFA after their defence of Trusty’s challenge on Butland.https://t.co/77x04sLXDD pic.twitter.com/Y8dM3iMdBc
— The Rangers Review (@RangersReview55) November 14, 2025
It took Thelwell 3 minutes 30 seconds to get to the purpose of the interview.
No mention was made of the sinister banners at Ibrox that had targets painted over images of Thelwell and Paddy Stewart.
He spent a lot of time discussing various appointments that he has made within the club. No mention was made about his 26-year-old son Robbie being appointed as Head of Recruitment.
WC should tell him properly refereed the score
was 4-0 and they would have at most 9 men and so get lost and stop blaming SFA .
stop using it as a deflection tactic for his own crap signings and go have a look in the mirror at the real reason they lost
13 days of deflection backed by the media because they got beat from an injury ravaged Celtic side managed by a 73 year old that had been out of football since 2019 who’d only took charge 3 days earlier with only 2 strikers to play who cost a total of 150 grand
Perfect description of the game. Spot on.
Touche ??
The bigoted spew that poured out of one half of the Hampden crowd as the teams were emerging was quite disgusing. They seem to have taked it to a new level.
That they live and breathe in that filth as a norm is beyond all understanding!
“We want the focus to be on the football, not the decisions” We all heard him say that,right? Loooooool.
You saw the banners,Kev…you were/are in the crosshairs of your maniac fans, your head was in a noose,so you caved AGAIN to the buy some favour,just like you did by sacking Russell Martin after the siege of Falkirk.
Try taking the more rancid,dangerous and disgusting songbook of your fan based to the SFA…that would be worth listening to,never mind “the Trusty incident’.
Weak as piss…fucking pathetic,and by dancing to their tune he’s just done Scottish football and society in general a great disservice.
The lesson here folks is,threaten people with violence until you get what you want.
WELL DONE KEV.
He’s sucking to The Sevco Hun Hoards for sure – But his ship has sailed for sure and it won’t work…
But it’ll work with The employees of The SFA all the same !