Rangers fans would have wanted strong leadership after the Ross County draw; instead Mark Warburton blamed the result on ‘randomness’.
When you are the manager of Rangers Football Club, one of the most successful, historic institutions in the European game, blaming a disappointing home draw on ‘randomness’ is not likely to go down too well with an expectant fan base, the Daily Record reports.
Yet, after Rangers fortunately scraped a 1-1 scoreline with a far superior Ross County last weekend, Mark Warburton had no inspiring messages for the support, no acceptance of responsibility or awareness of mistakes.
Instead, the 54-year-old, who left the club just a few days later blamed Rangers’ below par performance on the swing of the universe, suggesting that he had got on the bad side of Lady Luck rather than paid for his questionable team selection.
“I think randomness is a big thing,” Warburton said after the game, as reported by the Daily Record.
“There were so many random natures that didn’t go our way. Was their goal offside? I don’t know, it was tight. Not worth complaining about now.
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“So these are the random natures you look at and you hope over the course of a season they even themselves out.”
It was a claim almost on par with Louis Van Gaal, the irrepressibly self-assured Dutchman pinning the blame for Manchester United’s humiliating Europa League defeat to Midtjylland on ‘Murphy’s Law’.
Warburton’s excuse was arguably the beginning of the end, a claim so uninspiring that even his most ardent supporters must have recognised the requirement for change. After all, randomness is not the reason for the 27-point gap between Celtic and Rangers.
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Eventually, Warburton’s reign ended with overriding confusion. The club claimed he had resigned; the manager claimed otherwise. It is poetic irony; few events sum up the ‘randomness’ of football quite so succinctly.
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