When you are the Rangers manager - interim or otherwise - and you are losing to Dundee, the last thing you would want to do is give your critics any more of a stick to beat you with.

But the pressurised environment of football management can do funny things to people, and make them do things they wouldn’t normally dream of.

Just ask Graeme Murty. On Sunday, he had watched an appalling first-half performance from his side result in them trailing by two goals at the interval.

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After he delivered a half-time address to his shell-shocked troops, they came out fighting in the second half and got a goal back through Joe Garner.

Then, a gilt-edged chance falls the way of Harry Forrester, and with the opportunity to salvage something form the game so tantalisingly close, he slices the ball high and wide.

Cue the now famous reaction of Murty on the sidelines, as he performed an impressive handstand before crumpling to the turf and rolling back upright in, shall we say, rather unorthodox fashion.

As soon as the game finished, and he caught sight of his acrobatics on a journalists phone, he knew his week was about to get even worse.

"That was kind of a visual representation of how I was feeling,” Murty said. “I honestly thought we had got back into it. Personally, I am absolutely mortified. I am getting so much grief and rightly so.

“I actually saw it just after the press conference. Some of the journalists were talking and the guy had it on his phone already. As I walked past I caught a glimpse of it and thought: That’s my future right there. Imagine what I would have done if we had scored!

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“My pals have been asking me if I have been looking on Twitter. I have tried to avoid it, quite frankly, because I know what is coming my way.

“But you know what? It was just the emotion of the situation. Because we had put ourselves in such a hard place and I thought the lads had done it by digging themselves out. We just couldn’t get that finish.

“It normally comes back up into a perfect handstand. But about halfway up, I thought: What am I doing? I hoped that no-one had seen it – forgetting it was on Sky!

“But professionally, I've actually got bigger things to worry about.”

Indeed, he does. Murty has had a baptism of fire after being thrust into his new role since the sudden departure of Mark Warburton almost two weeks ago.

He admits it has been a new experience for him to be dealing with the pressures on the other side of the touchline to which he became accustomed to as a player.

But he is getting his head around it surely but surely, with a little help from an unlikely source in the world of classical music.

“They are two totally different scales,” he said. “As a player, you are able to be on the pitch implementing stuff. As a coach, it is different.

“I once saw a fantastic TED talk by a guy called Benjamin Zander, who is a fantastic conductor. He said he relies on the players in his orchestra for his power, because he makes no sound.

“Coaching is exactly like that. I don’t make a sound. I don’t kick a ball. But what you see on the football pitch directly correlates to what I have done during the week.

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“The pressure is for me to give over the trust to the players to go and be great and execute the things they are good at. That feeling of not holding on too tight, is the hardest changeover from footballer to coach. It’s hard to master.

“Fighting relegation with Reading in the Premier League was massive for me personally. But as a young coach, this is an unbelievable task.

“Not for reasons to be fearful, just the scale of the club, the scale of the responsibility and that it could be a big springboard for the club to move forward if we get it right. I am very conscious of that.

“For me, the biggest thing is to reassure the players that this is a massive opportunity. And not making it about me.

“It’s trying to make it about them. I calm myself down a bit and think: Right, what do they need? That’s difficult. It was difficult as a player and is possibly more difficult as a coach.”

Murty has yet to have had the time to properly digest where his time in charge of Rangers will lead him to in a professional capacity, but he is in little doubt that the honour he currently has will profoundly shape his future ambitions in the game.

“However long this period is, it will go a long way when I finally sit down and possibly get my thoughts down on a piece of paper so I can actually organise them and determine where my future lies,” he said.

“At the moment, I’m still dazzled that I get to walk out on a football pitch with that title, and it’s a very fortunate situation that I’m in.

“It’s difficult, it’s hard, I get that, but I can’t think of many other people who can say that their first managerial job, interim or otherwise, has been at a club of this stature.

“It will definitely play a massive part in forming where I go next.”