Gordon Strachan has suggested that Rangers have scuppered their own chances of winning the Premiership title - by their war-of-words on all fronts OFF the pitch.
Gers have been at the centre of a number of different rows since they returned from their winter break in Dubai. From Alfredo Morelos' mistranslated Sky Sports interview to the club's ongoing battle with BBC pundit Michael Stewart.
Then there's the little matter of Morelos, again, allegedly having his brakes 'tampered with' - at least according to speculation and reports.
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Former Celtic manager Strachan believes all those issues are likely to have affected the mindset of Rangers' players and their struggle to wrestle the title away from the Hoops could well be their own doing. "You didn't see it coming in December," he told the Daily Record.
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"At that point in time Rangers looked like a really focused team. Now I don’t know if this is right or not - I’m just trying to come up with a reason for what’s happened - but could it be that all the nonsense in the media has affected the Rangers players more than Celtic’s?
"We've had everything from gestures to statements, interviews and mysterious translations. Who was behind that? What’s this guy doing? What does that gesture mean? It’s been madness.
"Now I don’t know if it’s been a factor or not but something seems to have affected the Rangers players and it could be all these other things going on away from the football. I just don’t believe that guys of the calibre of Stevie Gerrard, Gary McAllister, Steve Davis and Ryan Jack could allow complacency to slip in if they were all just concentrating on winning games of football."
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