Has Ally McCoist ruined his legacy?

With reports over the past 24 hours claiming former Rangers manager Ally McCoist will be settling his contract roughly three months early, debate has risen over the merits or otherwise of the situation among fans once again.

McCoist and his antics remain a topic for feverish division, with a great many supporters choosing to focus solely on his brilliant playing days, his record-breaking playing days, while others cannot look past his absolutely appalling management reign and subsequent Gardening Leave.

The question is, in the eyes of almost all those fans, will an early settlement of his contract restore his honour and retain his playing legacy among supporters, or will his sustaining a wage beyond March (and the appointment of the new board) continue to blight him and punctuate everything he stands for?

It is indeed very sad how McCoist has ultimately turned out; my own personal view is that I cannot focus solely on how great he was as a player, I have to focus on the contradiction between being a True Ranger and taking a wage for doing nothing. Surely a true blue would have walked away and once the Club was in the right hands severed the contract?

McCoist did not – he was an incredible player, and that player rightly deserves to be remembered as a hero, but unfortunately his conduct post-December (and even some earlier) horribly corrupts it, however much we pretend otherwise.

Ally McCoist is now two entities – the wonderful player who won almost everything, and the appalling manager whose greed ultimately ruined his reign.

But of course, readers may disagree. And here is your chance to do so.