Controversial ex-Rangers star teams up with Scott Brown ahead of Scottish Cup clash

Controversial ex-Rangers star teams up with Scott Brown ahead of Scottish Cup clash

Controversial ex-Rangers star teams up with Scott Brown ahead of Scottish Cup clash

Former Celtic captain Scott Brown will be managing Ayr United when he returns to Ibrox, and he’ll be bringing former Rangers player

Steven Whittaker with him.

The fifth round of the Scottish Cup has seen the Gers drawn to play Ayr United at Ibrox.

The Honest Men have now named Scott Brown as their manager.

Steven Whittaker joins Scott Brown at Ayr United

Fans of Ibrox are undoubtedly aware with Scott Brown from his Rangers days, but it’s also important to discuss Steven Whittaker’s contentious comeback.

The former Rangers right-back, who cost an estimated £2 million to sign, joined the team five years ago and played in 199 games.

The right-back, who won eight medals with Rangers, including three Scottish Premiership titles, is especially well-known for his

brilliant individual goal against Sporting Lisbon that helped the team advance to the 2008 UEFA Cup Final in Manchester.

But the right-back’s success-laden time at the club ended in controversy when Whittaker, alongside now Hearts manager Steven

Naismith, called an infamous press conference in the wake of the club’s financial implosion in 2012.

Claiming that Rangers “no longer exists in its original form”, the two were looking out for their own best interests but it’s the manner

in which they left that will forever rankle with fans.

Rangers must handle Scottish Cup banana skin

It implies that Scott Brown won’t be the only target of the jeers that will probably be heard throughout Ibrox when Ayr United visits.

Steven Whittaker will be expecting nothing but the worst from a Rangers fanbase that seldom forgives and never forgets. Whittaker

has performed the part of the boogeyman at Ibrox.

Scott Brown has been trying, and not really succeeding, to cut his teeth in management and this will effectively

be the former Scotland captain’s third coaching role.

Starting out as Stephen Glass’s assistant at Aberdeen, Brown also spent time in charge of Fleetwood Town south of the border where Whittaker was also his assistant.

It’s there for Rangers to go and take out their ill-feeling towards Scott Brown against Ayr United

but dare slip up and we’ll probably never, ever live it down.

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