Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Murty apologises to Rangers fans after defeat
BOSS Graeme Murty apologised to retreating Rangers fans after their side slumped to a 4-0 William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final defeat to Celtic.
Murty admitted it was “definitely” the lowest point of his admittedlyshort managerial career but refused to answer a question about whether his players had let him down.
However, asked if he had a message for the supporters, the former Gers U/20s boss, said: “I would apologise to them for the game. I would ask for their patience and to keep believing but it is no good to keep asking it.
“You have to go and put a performance in to be worthy of their support. I thought our support was fantastic. It has been brilliant the whole time I have been here, it has been absolutely outstanding.
“We didn’t do enough to make them want to stay at the stadium today.”
Murty was put in charge in December for the rest of the campaign but his chances of keeping the job next season look to have gone.
Asked about his appetite for staying on, he said: “I am not going to talk about my role, I think it would be churlish and selfish in the extreme to talk about my own situation in the rawness of that.”
Murty added: “It is a lonely place standing on the sideline when that is going on.
“But I don’t think words is enough to convey how I am feeling right now.
“There is a lot of things we can look at. In the raw emotion right now, I didn’t think we got close enough to them, allowed them to play too easily.
“But all four goals were easily avoidable though basic, good defending and in the second half we gave them a penalty and sending-off which made their job far easier.”