If timing is everything in football then Rangers may just have won themselves a watch. Yes, the men in charge of the club may have been caught in a state of paralysis when Aston Villa crashed through the front doors to carry out a ram raid on Steven Gerrard and his entire coaching staff.
Now that Gerrard and his entourage have disappeared, it does feel as if the Ibrox regime may have landed on their feet quite unexpectedly.
That Gerrard’s decision to cut and run came at a moment when the likes of Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Frank Lampard are currently out of work is a happy coincidence where director of football Ross Wilson is concerned.
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