“You could only wonder” – Rangers facing major allegation | OneFootball

Ibrox Noise has noted with interest the Daily Record’s piece this morning on the passing of Jimmy Bell and sacking of Jim McAllister.

This is a rare occasion where some credible fans are actually taking a bit more seriously the allegations from the ‘dubious’ publication and on this occasion, Scott McDermott.

In essential summary, without getting bogged down in massive detail, it is suggested the soul of Rangers has been torn out, Bell’s passing not honoured in any real way and all trace of him erased from the club.

Bell was of course a gigantic lynchpin of Rangers, ‘just a kitman’ but so much more, and was a loved and respected core of Rangers for so so long, so the idea all trace of him has been removed from the club isn’t promising to begin with.

And then there’s McAllister, who was essentially fired, from what we understand, for raising concerns that a new staff member brought in by former manager Michael Beale wasn’t pulling his weight. He took the club to court, won, and is now in the Middle East.

The article in question paints a very bleak picture of Rangers, one bearing no resemblance to the club prior to Bell’s death. This is not to do with 2012 onwards, this is to do with Rangers as a club, as a soul, being torn out with his passing in 2022, and never being ‘replaced’.

Well, the man was irreplaceable, but to entirely airbrush him out of existence completely is not the Rangers we know, and the way the club treated McAllister isn’t either.

Then there’s Lee Wallace – a guy who gave his all to the club, and was ultimately hung out to dry for it. The way that former captain was treated by Rangers was absolutely abysmal, even if that predated Bell’s passing.

If all these events are collated together, the allegation is that Rangers are not being run in a way that is Rangers, that the collective aura of what was Rangers as recently as a few years ago is no longer in the building.

Do we believe the piece?

Well, we can’t deny how low our club has sunk in recent times, and there are few who would say this properly feels like Rangers.

While 2012 hurt our club, 55 did feel like the soul was there again, back in 2021. Steven Gerrard felt like a proper Rangers type of manager, even if he got plenty of criticism and didn’t win anywhere near enough.

So it’s events since then that appear to have done the damage.

Yes, it’s easy to just ‘pick on’ Rangers because we lack so many leaders at the top these days, and some might just argue this is lazy news because of the turmoil at the club, but it’s also not a story or allegation we can easily dismiss.

The Record is infinitely unreliable, but McDermott does say something things which are rather on the button, such as criticising the club’s embarrassing reaction to beating St Johnstone at Hampden in August, acting like it was some colossal achievement to get to the quarter finals of the League Cup.

He accused the club of being used to being second best and effectively acting like a small club.

It’s hard to argue with that in truth:

Today we sit third, behind Aberdeen, and whether that has anything to do with McAllister’s sacking or Bell’s passing, we can’t know.

All we do know is this period has gone on too long, and whatever is causing Rangers to be more like Hearts these days has run its race.

We want Our Rangers back.