It took 15 minutes of a recent in-house interview for the Rangers chairman, John Bennett, to offer the kind of triumphalism people at Ibrox should know by now to avoid. “This is a club that needs to win,” said Bennett. “That won’t change. Rangers is compelled to win.”
Bennett should brush up on his recent history. Rangers have one Premiership title since 2011. Their League Cup record in the same period is identical. They have lifted the Scottish Cup once since 2009. Rangers still exist, still function, still have tens of thousands of season-ticket holders despite winning precious little. We are living in an era of Celtic domination in Scottish football. It is strange for someone of Bennett’s intelligence to trot out this tired mantra, because it will invite inevitable pressure from restless supporters.
