{"id":22107,"date":"2025-10-06T03:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22107"},"modified":"2025-10-06T03:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:04:21","slug":"rangers-sack-manager-martin-after-nightmare-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22107","title":{"rendered":"Rangers sack manager Martin after nightmare start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Rangers fired manager Russell Martin on Sunday after a dismal 1-1 draw at newly-promoted Falkirk left him with just one win from his first seven league matches in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Martin had to be escorted from Falkirk&#8217;s stadium by security guards after police dispersed Rangers fans that had tried to block their team bus from leaving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rangers Football Club confirms that it has parted company with Head Coach, Russell Martin,&#8221; the Glasgow giants said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While all transition periods require some time, results have not met the club&#8217;s expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The club said that assistant coach Matt Gill and first-team coach Mike Williamson would also leave.<\/p>\n<p>Former Southampton boss Martin had endured a nightmare start at Ibrox since being appointed in the close-season.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers were knocked out of Champions League qualifying with a humiliating 9-1 aggregate drubbing by Club Brugge, before losing their first two Europa League games.<\/p>\n<p>They were lucky to escape with a point from Falkirk and sit eighth in the 12-team Scottish Premiership, 11 points behind leaders Hearts and nine off bitter city rivals Celtic.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers fired manager Russell Martin on Sunday after a dismal 1-1 draw at newly-promoted Falkirk left him with just one win from his first seven league matches in charge. Martin had to be escorted from Falkirk&#8217;s stadium by security guards after police dispersed Rangers fans that had tried to block their team bus from leaving. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}