Muscat will take Gers job by a process of elimination

New 'head of team affairs' will have won a raffle but they'll need instant success to deflect fire from 49ers

- HUGH KEEVINS

I UNDERSTOOD the extent to which Rangers fans had been taken beyond the limits of their endurance and driven to distraction when a radio caller demanded that 49ers Enterprises be removed from his club.

The call came in the wake of Steven Gerrard making it known he would not, for whatever reason, be going back to Ibrox.

What had been promised to be a “rigorous and thoughtful” search for Russell Martin's replacement had, at that precise point, turned into a tortuous and fretful recruitment strategy.

I pointed out there was no feasible likelihood of the 49ers vacating the premises, given that the American owners had taken charge of a business which had fallen into internal difficulty and was in acute need of their form of financial resuscitation.

But there is a case for saying Andrew Cavenagh and his cohorts have so far flunked the fit-and-proper test at Ibrox.

The argument is made against them by examining the damage being done to Rangers' credibility and image over the appointment of Martin's successor.