There are some who aren't happy that I've got long hair and a centre parting. And that I can't wear a shirt and tie because I'm too sweaty. My career was built on proving people wrong

RUSSELL MARTIN ON HIS CRITICS

- SCOTT MCDERMOTT

IT was just one of a plethora of shouts from the Bill Struth Main Stand on Tuesday night.

Club Brugge had scored their third goal inside 20 minutes to go 3-0 up against Rangers.

While the home fans were apoplectic with rage, Russell Martin was a helpless figure on the Ibrox touchline.

He took all the flak flying through the air.

But he couldn't have been expecting one particular slur.... or maybe he was.

"Martin, get yourself a f***ing haircut" or words to that effect.

Not your usual dig at a gaffer in the midst of a Champions League game.

But Martin knows that being Rangers boss isn't like any other job. He's only had the gig for 79 days but is already feeling the heat. A winless start in the Premiership albeit after just two games against Motherwell and Dundee combined with that Brugge battering in the first half hasn't helped him win any popularity contests among a support who were not that keen on him in the first place.

He even gets stick for refusing to wear a club suit in the dugout.

Martin is aware of all of this, of course.

But he's nothing if not his own man. And he's honest.

He's not ready to change his hairstyle just yet and he won't put a tie on simply because the Rangers diehards demand it.

Martin says he's got used to proving people wrong throughout his career and that is what he plans on doing for as long as he's in the job. Asked if maybe the job of winning over his Ibrox sceptics was bigger than he thought, he said: "No, I don't think so.