Rangers legend Ally McCoist admits his dream job as boss turned into a nightmare as he reflected on his time in the dugout.
McCoist stuck with the club as they attempted to climb through the ranks of Scottish football from the Third Division in 2012.
The fan favourite was left to rebuild the entire squad in the midst of the financial woes at Ibrox.
After back-to-back titles, the rise was halted in the Championship as with the boss leaving the job in 2014 as the promotion push stalled.
However, McCoist reckons the action on the pitch only told half the story as he looked back on the turbulent time for the club which saw Rangers sent down to the bottom tier.
He told The Times : “A dream job at a nightmare time.
"It would be some book but they wouldn’t believe it. I ended up in the High Court as a witness to the fiasco that was going on around me.
“I don’t regret [taking the job] because it was my club growing up as a boy and I played there for 15 years.
"In many ways I was masochistically pleased that I was in charge, [working with] Ian Durrant [the first team coach] and people that knew and cared about the club.
“But it was anything but managing. We had four players turn up for pre-season training. Absolutely crazy.
“The hardest thing wasn’t players leaving but people losing jobs who have been there for 20 years, delivering mail and doing things that people take for granted.
"That was heartbreaking. It was everything to them.”
But McCoist hasn't been put off management as he claims he has had offers to get back into the dugout coming from Queens Park Rangers, Sunderland and from unnamed Scottish clubs.
On The Black Cats offer, he joked: “(I'm) Dodging bullets! Like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.”
