There was a time when Aberdeen coming to Ibrox in autumn would end with Michael Beale being called calculating and an opportunist. How gentle the descriptions seem compared to the flamethrowers turned on him now. Beale showed up in the Ibrox directors’ box when Aberdeen were in town last October, everyone realising a vacancy was imminent because the trapdoor was opening under Giovanni van Bronckhorst. A year on Beale is coming to his own end as manager of Rangers. The team he built is not good enough to keep him in the job. Even if losing to Aberdeen does not turn out to be his last game in charge, it felt like the point of no return.
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Rangers last night announced that Michael Beale had been sacked for failing to deliver the results expected of a manager at Ibrox. Beale and his backroom staff paid the price for an awful start to the season.