Martin lays blame elsewhere after tepid stalemate

It would not have taken much for post-match media comments to prove more engaging than an awful Old Firm clash. Russell Martin and Brendan Rodgers duly delivered. Perhaps it was inevitable that a derby supposed to endorse such strongly held viewpoints about one half of Glasgow would end in stalemate.

- Ewan Murray

The boos at full time demonstrated the scale of work Martin has to do in order to win over hearts and minds. The Rangers manager has been on the back foot since day one, with a poor start to the season strengthening the widely held sense that this is wrong man, wrong club, wrong time.

Rangers were actually the better side and the one which showed more attacking purpose, but four draws to open a Scottish Premiership campaign is not a healthy position. In that quartet of games Rangers have scored just three times. Fans held banners with "Enough is enough" as a message before kick-off against Celtic. The visiting contingent, 2,500 of them, were subdued. The Ibrox atmosphere was a strange one.

Martin has decided Scotland's fourth estate is partly responsible for his predicament. Perhaps websites are making an error by printing the Rangers scores. "Until we win football matches there will still be noise," the Rangers manager said.