STEPHEN McGOWAN: Beale became a dead man walking at Rangers

Armed Forces day at Ibrox ended with the whiff of cordite in the air. After defeats to PSV Eindhoven and Celtic, Michael Beale already had a target trained on his back. A 3-1 defeat to Aberdeen ended with Rangers fans preparing to fire the manager out of a cannon. There was no evidence that Beale, in the parlance of modern football, had lost the dressing room.