Chris Sutton wants behind-the-scenes Rangers ‘inquest’ after Michael Beale actions in public
Chris Sutton wants Michael Beale to stop airing so many issues in public after the Rangers manager held a group huddle on the pitch at Hampden Park on Sunday.
After Rangers’ Viaplay Cup final defeat to Celtic on 26 February, Beale gathered his players around to talk to them on the pitch before they quickly made their way down the tunnel before Celtic’s celebrations started.
Sutton really isn’t a fan of Beale’s behaviour in front of the media, suggesting he’s been paying lip service to the Gers fanbase.
He also believes that the post-match huddle is something that should have happened outside of the public gaze.
“Beale has spoken about standards at his club but I didn’t see those standards when the Rangers team refused to hang about to see Celtic go up and get their winners’ medals,” Sutton wrote on the Daily Record website (4 March). “I also didn’t see it when he held the group meeting on the Hampden pitch after the game, which was clearly a show for the supporters, when the inquest should have gone on behind closed doors.
“That is the big lesson Beale should learn from this damaging week. The pandering to the masses has been good knock-about fun but in the long term it doesn’t do him any good.”
Ridiculous
Sutton’s got an agenda against Beale.
That’s fine, it’ll be the case for every Rangers manager.
And while he does make some good points about Beale, such as his pandering to the masses in press conferences and digs at Ange Postecoglou he’s failed to back up, having a go about the huddle is ridiculous.
If it was Celtic who’d done that after they lost, nothing would have been said about it.
You wouldn’t have read a column by Kris Boyd taking a swipe at it or anything like that. Why? Because it’s quite a normal thing and it also shows the kind of manager Beale is.
Sutton does make a very good point about the Gers walking off the pitch in the wake of picking up their runners-up medals, however.
It was a childish move by Rangers, a club who time and time again has the opportunity to rise above Celtic but fail to do so because they’d rather be at the same low level consistently.
In other Rangers news, Alfredo Morelos is “finished” at Ibrox after what this Sky Sports pundit heard Beale saying.