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Graeme Young

Inside Pedro Caixinha's madcap Rangers presentation that left first-team squad dumbfounded

Former Rangers defender Clint Hill has lifted the lid on the time flop boss Pedro Caixinha was found out inside the Ibrox dressing.

The Portuguese bullfighter was an unmitigated disaster during his eight-month stay in 2017 - presiding over the club's worst ever defeat in the Europa League at the hands of Progrès Niederkorn.

And the veteran Englishman, brought to the club by Mark Warburton, admits an over the top pre-match presentation set alarm bells off among the squad as Caixinha's fireworks quickly fizzled out.

Hill reckons the former Al-Gharafa manager's grand vision for his Rangers team failed to account for the rough and tumble fixtures his side would encounter on a weekly basis. 

Speaking to Open Goal, he said: “He put this presentation up for one game and, to this day, I still think it’s the presentation he did for the job, that he’s given the board - I swear to God I think it is.

“It’s all gleaming, it’s all fireworks - there’s shots of the stadium, players, trophies, Rangers’ history.

"And I’m going, ‘he’s definitely given this to the board’.

"And then he’s got into his style of play. He was in Qatar, so he’s got these lads playing footie, bang, passing the ball and him saying, ‘lads, this is how I want us to play football for Glasgow Rangers, the way I like’.

“It’s 90-odd degrees out there, it’s walking football, no-one is putting any pressure on you, you know what I mean?

“And we’re sat there going, ‘he doesn’t know what it means to put that blue top on, to go to an away ground, you’re not going to get it that easy’.

“It was just too blinkered, too blinkered.”

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