Analysis - BBC Scotland's Tom English
The big surprise is not that Pedro Caixinha has lost his job as Rangers manager. The remarkable thing is that he ever got it in the first place.
His track record did not support such an appointment. The only thing that Caixinha seemed adept at was talking a good game rather than delivering one.
Over the course of his brief reign the headlines he created were more about the bombast of his words rather than the performance his side. Eventually, the board that took such an unnecessary gamble in giving him the job, admitted that there was no future with him in charge.
Those men who made the decision to appoint him are the director Graeme Park, the managing director Stewart Robinson and the director of football administration Andrew Dickson. Having assessed their now ex-manager a period of self-reflection is in order.
This has been a desperate mess from start to finish.