Mark Warburton makes big claim about Rangers exit | OneFootball

Former Rangers manager Mark Warburton has return to the back pages, per se, after giving a candid interview on a podcast about his Rangers exit.

This was, of course, back in 2017, well in the days before all the toxicity of today or even the better time of Steven Gerrard, but what the former boss had to say was interesting.

The real question is whether you believe him, and given certain incidents of the past don’t quite add up, there is room for doubt.

The main one being there had been strong accusations before Warburton’s exit that he was being heavily linked with the vacant position at Forest (we covered it at the time), before then getting that job 3 weeks after he left Rangers.

The claim had been that he’d already met with the Forest hierarchy, but Warburton refutes on his life (his words) that the first he knew of Forest’s interest was when they called him to offer him the job 3 weeks after his Ibrox exit.

Many would argue ‘it doesn’t matter now, it’s in the past’, and it is, but we must admit, the Magic Hat speaks extremely positively of Rangers as a club, of his time at the club, and apparently loves all things to do with the club.

But not the manner of his exit, which he’s said several times he learned only on Sky Sports News’ ticker from his flat in Scotland and it was the first he’d heard of it.

Do we believe his version? He says himself there are two sides to every story so his version is just his. It could be a complete pack of lies, it could be very accurate, we don’t know.

But his further claim that he received death threats and nasty texts and calls leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth and if true, it’s predictable and depressing the way that some people react to news or events they dislike.

Time has mostly healed for Warburton, we don’t think he’s a bad soul, but we did giggle when he said he hadn’t heard from former Managing Director Stewart Robertson for ‘7-10 days’.

Some things never change Warby….