The creative self-destruction of the other team in Glasgow is obviously an item of great mirth but it is not good for the competitiveness of Scottish football in the longer term.
Since the institutional omnipotence of the Walter Smith/ Hugh Dallas years, the club have become directionless and financially insecure. The Le Guen v Ferguson duel epitomises this decline. If you had asked at the beginning of the season I would have named these two individuals as the key competitive advantages that Rangers possessed - a world class manager and a Premiership standard player. With Celtic engaged in the Champions League and refereeing bias yielding it's ugly head again (Celtic have had one penalty all season - in the 90th minute of a game that they were already winning), Rangers were primed for SPL success. Instead they trail by 17 points and their home form is the equivalent of the Bhoys away returns.
Bookies reckon it's Walter Smith time all over again (probably with Jimmy Tarbuck as his assistant) - the word "dinosaur" springs to mind. Until Rangers adopt a greater degree of cultural and societal inclusion at all levels of their organisation, they are destined to scrap with Aberdeen and Lithuania for 2nd place.
Crikey, they even lost to one of their own reserve teams in the Scottish Cup today!
