With fan fury intensifying in the aftermath of an embarrassing Champions League play-off exit, Martin vowed to fight on as Rangers boss.<\/p>\n
And despite going a fourth straight league game without a win, a goalless draw with Old Firm rivals Celtic provided the head coach with crumbs of hope.<\/p>\n
However, it proved to be a false dawn. <\/p>\n
In their next game, high-flying Hearts romped to a 2-0 victory at a stormy Ibrox, with clouds conjured so thick that even a perfunctory League Cup quarter-final win over Hibs could not stop the rumbles of discontent amid more fan protests.<\/p>\n
Defeat to a bang average Genk at home in the Europa League saw Martin become increasingly rattled. <\/p>\n
By this point, a chunk of fans had made their mind up, even if the Rangers hierarchy had not. A 90th-minute winner away to newly-promoted Livingston last Sunday was met with hostility. <\/p>\n
So to was a defeat away to Sturm Graz midweek, with footage on social media of fans confronting the club’s bosses about their plight painting a grim picture.<\/p>\n
By the time Falkirk’s Henry Cartwright equalised on Sunday, there was no way back. Or forward, in the case of the Rangers team bus that was barricaded in post match.<\/p>\n
When it eventually slithered out and on the road to Glasgow, Martin was not on it. Instead, the Rangers head coach was smuggled out in the back of a car, never to be seen in his post again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With fan fury intensifying in the aftermath of an embarrassing Champions League play-off exit, Martin vowed to fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-476792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115323898705476802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}