Can you imagine, with the benefit of hindsight, what it would have looked like if Rangers had stuck to their original plan to accompany Celtic to Australia for the Sydney Cup?
A flight Down Under in the immediate aftermath of the draw against St Mirren which put Giovanni van Bronckhorst ’s side nine points behind Celtic at the top of the Premiership table? And cast huge doubt over the manager’s future without enticing the Ibrox board to formulate any form of official response to furious speculation.
It wasn’t even the board who took the decision to pull out of the contract covering the trip to Ange Postecoglou’s adopted homeland, where he has been feted like visiting royalty. It was the Rangers fans who took the decision for them through a series of public demonstrations that underlined their anger over the very idea of being the support act for the reigning champions of the Premiership.
