Rangers boss Michael Beale has ramped up his dispute with the furious Ibrox fans as he criticises the support for booing his side off the park against Aberdeen.
The Gers fans unleashed a tirade of frustration on their team at half-time in Govan with Rangers – despite creating a number of chances – going into the break 1-0 down.
Claiming that the boos were “harsh”, an increasingly under-fire Michael Beale has done little to curry favour with Rangers fans by claiming they need to get behind the team more.
“Listen it’s a situation that’s escalated much faster than i thought,” Michael Beale said after the eventual 3-1 defeat.
“I thought it was harsh to boo them off at half-time. We conceded from a set play but we played well enough to be 2-0 or 3-0 up. I get the frustration, they follow this club all around.
“It’s the fourth home game in ten days and pretty much all of them have been sold out. Sometimes the supporters could help the players but one or two could help themselves.”
Rangers fans have turned on Michael Beale
With the Rangers boss speaking after a 3-1 home defeat to Aberdeen – the club’s third in seven league games this season – the comments sums up the sort of delusional soundbites we’re used to under Beale’s tenure.
Read the room, Michael.
Rangers fans, already having had enough of Michael Beale’s new-look and stuttering Gers side, let their frustrations be known as is their right as paying punters who’ve been hanging around Ibrox a lot longer than the Englishman and his disjointed team.
The Gers would then come out in the second half and conspire to lose 3-1 with Rangers slipping seven points behind Old Firm rivals Celtic in the Scottish Premiership after only seven games.
It appears to have made Michael Beale’s position untenable and Steven Gerrard’s former assistant is beginning to look every inch the budget Championship manager we poached from QPR.
Speaking about his future after the game, the Rangers boss claims it’s a decision which is out of his hands.
“That’s someone else’s decision,” Beale said.
“All I can do is continue with the job the best I can. We felt we prepared well enough tactically. We went over and around it first half and created the chances.
“It’s a really bad result and we feel the frustration and despair because we share it inside as staff and players because first half we had enough chances to win that game.”
If Rangers fans are looking for an analogy for Michael Beale, these are beginning to sound like the final words of a dead man walking.
