The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Who knows where bizarre Ibrox marketing drive ends?

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ROLL up, roll up, for the great Rangers end-of-anera sale.

The punters have had their fill of the blokes on the board, manager Giovanni van Bronckhors­t tea’s out and ‘55’ feels like it happened in another age, but that’s not to say you can’t still get your own special souvenir of what has been an unforgetta­ble time. Maybe not quite memorable for all the right reasons, but it’s the willingnes­s to keep digging deep for worthless tat when the team’s not worth tuppence that makes you feel like a real fan, right?

Fresh from the official European day trips that fly you to the wrong country and the Rangers website briefly selling a £50 panoramic portrait this week of the club’s heaviest home defeat in 150 years to Liverpool, word has it the marketing department have all manner of other treats in store in the run-up to Christmas.

You missed out on the special £9 mug to remind you every single morning you take a breakfast cuppa of the most dismal showing ever witnessed in the group stage of the Champions League? Fear not. There will soon be a limitededi­tion pint tumbler engraved with the details of all 22 goals shipped in Group A to let you raise a toast to that historic return to European football’s top table.

Blew your cash on the oneoff white ‘Gallant Pioneers’ strip the marketing bods said the team would wear against Aberdeen last season — then didn’t?

Never mind. You can do in another week’s wages on the exclusive GVB wall clock which lets you count down the seconds to the board finally giving him the bullet and the league being officially over.

It feels right to invite knockdown offers for Ryan Kent or Alfredo Morelos as well — before they are given away for free. But, even for Rangers, there has to be a limit. I mean, who would be daft enough to go for that?

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