Michael Beale has been given an encouraging progress report from the Auchenhowie boffins crunching the numbers on his start as Rangers manager. But the new Ibrox gaffer reckons it's not rocket science when it comes to working out the equation for what makes a successful Old Firm boss.
For a modern coach, the Londoner surprisingly isn’t the type who gets all excited by talk of xG and the rest of the techno-babble data geeks love to spout off about these days. Steven Gerrard’s former sidekick is no dinosaur but he’s well aware that in Glasgow the game can be essentially boiled down to two things, winning and losing.
So far, Beale’s own big bang theory on the game has made all the right noises for the Light Blues, producing five wins and a draw from his first six games in charge. The former QPR boss remains very much in the experimental stage, though, and it took yet another half-time tweak at Tannadice on Sunday for him to perfect his winning formula.
