Neil Warnock has joined the likes of Harry Redknapp and Ally McCoist in slating Jamie O'Hara.
The Billericay Town boss told talkSPORT listeners that Bournemouth are a "higher profile football team" than Rangers and "they (Rangers) are a huge football club but it’s a bigger job to potentially be the Bournemouth manager."
Rangers legend McCoist called his comments "stupid", while Redknapp said: "Jamie must have been drinking when he came away with that statement."
Those sentiments were echoed by Middlesbrough manager Warnock, who believes Rangers and Celtic would be successful in English football.
Speaking on BBC Sportsound, Warnock said: "Listen, Bournemouth's a lovely club and it's a small club, and you probably talk about Bournemouth being a feeder club for Rangers.
"It's absolutely ridiculous. He's obviously not been north of the border. It's one of them things, it's getting everyone talking I suppose and having a laugh, but anybody serious in football, you've got to have a laugh.
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"He's obviously had a drink before he started talking."
Asked if that was the perception of Scottish football for a lot of people down south, Warnock replied: "I don't think so.
"I think because Celtic have been so far ahead over the last few years without any competition, I don't think that's helped Scottish football, but now Steven's got a grip of Rangers and they're catching up gradually and there's one or two other teams that are doing reasonably well it's a lot more even now.
"If you put Celtic and Rangers down in England, you're talking about the top six. Those two clubs, if they had the money that the English clubs have coming in, they would spend it.
"They'd spend it on good players and they would then compete. I look at Celtic and Rangers - I don't think about Man City, I think they are way ahead, and Liverpool - but I think the rest below that, your Man Uniteds, Chelsea, I think Rangers and Celtic would more than cope with that."
