METTLE DETECTOR

It's make-or-break time for Gers' interim boss as next fortnight will determine if he's up to task of taking the hotseat permanently

- HUGH KEEVINS

NOTHING sums up the dog's dinner of a season Rangers have endured on the domestic front better than Queen's Park's five-goal defeat at home to Airdrie on Wednesday night.

The team who put Rangers out of the Scottish Cup, sabotaging their last chance of winning a trophy, have subsequently binned their manager Callum Davidson.

They might yet find time to get themselves relegated to the third tier of Scottish football while losing the financial backing of Lord Willie Haughey in the process.

Now they're losing goals a handful at a time to the team who have been rooted to the bottom of the Championship table since the season began.

On reflection, how in the name of God does a club of Rangers' size contrive to lose to a side like that at Ibrox and yet, concurrently, be in the quarter-finals of the Europa League on undeniable merit?

Rangers are losing the league to Celtic by the length of Sauchiehall Street yet give the impression of living on easy street when it comes to Europe.