{"id":38627,"date":"2025-10-05T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/russell-martin-rangers-head-coach-sacked-after-17-games-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:02:30","slug":"russell-martin-rangers-head-coach-sacked-after-17-games-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/russell-martin-rangers-head-coach-sacked-after-17-games-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Martin: Rangers head coach sacked after 17 games in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Russell Martin has been sacked as Rangers head coach after 17 games, with the club saying &#8220;while all transition periods require some time, results have not met expectations&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 39-year-old&#8217;s final game was the 1-1 draw at Falkirk on Sunday, following which he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c07vr3x1834o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">given a police escort<\/a> away from the stadium after fans tried to stop the team bus leaving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin had faced mounting criticism and opposition from Ibrox supporters amid a poor start to the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It took Rangers until late September to win in the Scottish Premiership and the club were humiliated 9-1 on aggregate defeat by Club Brugge in the Champions League play-offs in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gwrplwyz8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Martin has been sacked as Rangers head coach after 17 games, with the club saying &#8220;while all transition periods require some time, results have not met expectations&#8221;. The 39-year-old&#8217;s final game was the 1-1 draw at Falkirk on Sunday, following which he was given a police escort away from the stadium after fans tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4555,3814,1556,5812,1856,6373,5499],"class_list":["post-38627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-charge","tag-coach","tag-games","tag-martin","tag-rangers","tag-russell","tag-sacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38629,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions\/38629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}