Gio van Bronckhorst insists Rangers slump not as bad as Feyenoord's that was rectified with historic title win

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Ibrox may seem a bleak place right now but Giovanni van Bronckhorst has found himself in darker spots. For all the doom and gloom that currently hangs over Rangers amid a campaign that’s witnessed humiliation on the continent and frustrations at home, it’s not quite the pit of despair the former Feyenoord coach found himself trapped in during his Rotterdam reign.

If you want to know what pressure feels like, try going nine games without a win. But that nightmare experience, a grim run that included seven straight losses that dragged itself out over two agony-filled months, is precisely what the Light Blues boss went through during his rookie year as he tried to scratch out a managerial career with his hometown club.

Lucky enough to have been given time and the Eredivisie giant’s trust, he recovered from that miserable set of results and the following season led Feyenoord to their first Dutch title in 18 years.

Van Bronckhorst’s former Ibrox mentor Dick Advocaat referred to that turnaround earlier this week when he used the Record Sport pages to urge his old club to show similar patience amid the furious fan backlash that followed Sunday’s shock St Johnstone defeat.