Rangers vs Club 1872 all you need to know as knives are sharpened and bitterness descends on Ibrox

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Shoulder to shoulder on the pitch – at each other’s throats off it. Quite how things have reached such a state of bitterness in a year when Rangers should be celebrating their 150th anniversary is hard to fathom.

While Gio van Bronckhorst ’s squad were fighting at Dens Park on Sunday to snatch a late win that keeps their dual dream of glory at home and in Europe alive, the club’s biggest supporter group was sharpening the knives and preparing to swipe at the men at the top of the marble staircase.

And the directors didn’t hold back once the first punch had been thrown, hitting back at “disruptors” they claimed were engaging in a “propaganda war” while brushing off their complaints because some of those raising concerns once “craved” an Ibrox blazer.Like a birthday party where revellers have had one too many, it’s all turning a bit ugly.

The Rangers board promised they would deal with the enemy within at the end of the season. Right now “nothing matters but results on the field,” they insisted.But for a significant chunk of the support it’s decisions taken off it that are continuing to vex.The club statement speaks of its desire for a “unity of purpose” as they chase Premiership, Scottish Cup and Europa League glory but the one thing the punters all agree on is their opposition to November’s planned friendly with Celtic in Australia.