It's not what you own, it's what you're owed this is how the balance of power currently lies at
the Rangers Football Club. Lloyds Banking Group is owed far more than they own, and they are
prepared to take drastic measures to get what they are owed up to and including administration, if
reports of Rangers' mid-October board meeting are to be relied upon.
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SoccerLens 02 November @ 04:46 AM EST
It seems that whenever I write an article for this site it's about one of two things; Scottish
football's decline or uprising. No prizes for guessing which one this falls under, with the issues
surrounding that of Rangers dominating the back pages north of the border for most of the past few
weeks.
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Such has been the forensic focus on Ranger's perilous finances over the last couple of days that
following Scottish football has been like studying for an accountancy degree. Not so much fans with
typewriters as fans with calculators.To save everybody the hassle of crawling into every nook and
cranny of the internet in the search for news about the country's most bombastic football club
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John Hughes described Walter Smith as the "godfather" of Scottish football managers the other day.
In recent weeks, however, Smith's traditional taciturn gravitas has been replaced by a more haunted
look, the look of a man who spends his long, sleepless nights wondering what went wrong.When he
returned to Rangers he knew there would be hard work ahead.
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Avrupa futbolunu saran finansal kriz özellikle Britanya kulüplerinin başının belası haline
geldi. İskoçya'nın iki doğal şampiyonu'ndan birisi olan Glasgow Rangers finans krizini en
ağır şekilde yaşayan Ada kulüplerinin başında geliyor. Kulüp hissedarlarından Lloyds
Banking Group eski başkan ve kulübün büyük hissedarı Sir David Murray'in hisselerinin acil
bir şekilde devri için kulübe baskı yapıyor.
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His house was petrol-bombed, his father was attacked, and he was called the "Salmon Rushdie of
football". It was twenty years ago this week that former Celtic star Mo Johnston became the first
well-known Roman Catholic to sign for Rangers, and Glasgow erupted. One enraged Rangers fan said
that, "My blood is boiling.
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An entirely different Dr John The room is no longer smoke filled. The older man's colleagues in the
wee Parliament had seen to that. But the lingering smell of Havana suggested that, after hours,
this place was a smoke easy. The younger man, dressed in an expensive suit, nurses a brandy. He
stares wistfully into the glass.
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"They are being punished for their success in reaching the Uefa Cup final. And it's something
that the SPL and everyone in Scottish football has got to look at."Not a Rangers insider
talking but national manager George Burley. This is getting really dull and I'm not sure that
Burley really needs to weigh in.
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David Weir denied the season had aged himScottish football is determined to scupper Rangers'
European ambitions. That's the message pouring out of Ibrox after the refusal to extend the
existing extension to the season. According to David Murray (funny how success can drive Mr Murray
out of his hiding place) has said we will be the laughing stock of world football after the Russian
FA happily
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