THE Glasgow goldfish bowl has claimed so many victims from the city’s two biggest football clubs that is should be renamed Davie Jones’s Locker.

Or maybe that should be war chest given that’s were Rangers and Celtic apparent keep all their money.

Mark Warburton had been told that as a big fish he would either sink or swim. Merely floating is not good enough when you manage one of them and right now that’s what Rangers are doing.

This isn’t Brentford. This is the madhouse and so suggesting the manager of Rangers is going to find himself under pressure at times, even unfairly, is akin to observing that the Antarctic is quite cold.

It is all new for Warburton. The season has started slowly, Joey Barton hasn’t helped him and with Championship leaders Queen of the South tonight in the Betfred League Cup, a win for the home side at Ibrox is far from as certainty, and then a daunting visit to Pittodrie coming up and the weekend, means that despite this only being September it feels like a vital period for him.

“It is interesting when you speak to some of the senior players who came here this year, the likes of Clint Hill and Niko Krancjar,” said Warburton. “They have been staggered by it. They have been shocked by the intensity of the media, the scrutiny of the media.

"They have played at Premier League level or internationally and they have been shocked by it. But it is part of the learning curve. You are told about it but you don’t realise until you come to Glasgow and are in it.”

Warburton said he had learned more about life outside of the club during these past trying weeks and he’s certainly had a tougher time compared to last season when more or less he could do little wrong in the eyes of the supporters.

He is a great man for comparing his current job to previous one, he was a successful trader, and believes the lessons he learned from his past life will hold him in good stead.

“Let’s be honest, the Glasgow fish bowl is fairly unique, I think,” said Warburton. “You know that is going to be there, it is what it is. In my old industry, there were periods when, and I was all about making money in the markets, some days everything you touched went wrong. There were other days everything you touched went right. There was no logic to it.

“You buy dollars, suddenly some news came out and you made your month's money. Same news comes out and you can lose your month's money. It is just the way it is.

“After the Celtic game last season, we had a run where we didn’t get points and we had run our race for that season. We have got to learn from it, we can’t accept that. You can’t accept a slow start because you are out of Europe before you have even got going.

“We have to look and learn. The worse thing we can do is not recognise there were some shortfalls, all of us, myself at the front of that. We will be better for it.”

Queen of the South could cause Rangers problems. So, too, Aberdeen but that is for another day. Sunday to be precise.

Warburton’s side beat the Dumfries men four times last season and yet they are one of Scotland's in-form teams and with nothing to lose when the two sides attempt to reach the semi-finals.

“They are high in confidence, they beat Hibs 3-1 at Easter Road and they won’t be fearful of a so-called bigger venue,” said Warburton. "Over half the team would have come here last year and they will be used to it. I just can’t see any professional player, of any level, not relishing the fact that they can go there and enjoy it.

Martyn Waghorn got straight to the point when asked why Rangers have not been playing as well as was hope.

He said: “It’s a new group, new challenge, and different level of tournament. I just think for us we’ve not been at it in all honesty, parts of games we’ve done very well and started well and fell off or we’ve fallen behind and had to dig in and claw it back. We’ve missed a full performance for 90 minutes and ultimately sticking the ball in the back of the net.”

Do that tonight and Rangers will be able to take a few more gasps of breath.

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