Giovanni van Bronckhorst is well aware that the walls are closing in all around.
He’s heard the angry calls for his head and the chants advising him where he ought to get to. And he knows the clamour will become ear-splitting tonight should Rangers drop any more league points at home to Hearts. But yesterday the Dutchman showed a defiant side when he insisted he’s not yet ready to throw in the towel or be hounded out of a club that he loves. Nowhere near it.
“Well, it’s hard not to be aware of it. I don’t live in a basement!”, is how he put it when asked if he has his finger on the pulse of the fans’ discontent. The truth of the matter is, this is a support which is only just short of mounting a full-scale revolt following a desperate run of damaging defeats, the latest of which came at St Johnstone on Sunday, when the fury spilled over into the McDiarmid Park car park. Van Bronckhorst added: “So it’s obvious for everyone to see and for myself as well.
