This might sound brutal.
But Hearts players heading to Ibrox on Wednesday will be thinking one thing: I’m getting Gio the sack today. It sounds horrible. And when you think about it, it is horrible. But that’s the reality. It has to be. This is the top level of professional football and Rangers are vulnerable. Hearts should be smelling blood and that doesn’t happen very often against the Old Firm so they have to have the mindset they’re going in for the kill.
If that means the Rangers manager pays the price with his job then that’s just the unfortunate reality of the game. It reminds me of a trip across Edinburgh to face Hibs in the League Cup quarter final around about Halloween time in 2013. Pat Fenlon was under enormous pressure with the Hibs fans and we knew we could be the final nail in his coffin.
