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Rangers & Their Influential 10% Shareholder

Twohundredpercent 04 November @ 01:36 AM EST

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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The Trouble With Rangers

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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In A Rich Man's World

The Scottish Football Blog 27 October @ 01:34 PM EST
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 Click to continue reading...

The Great Depression

The Scottish Football Blog 27 October @ 05:22 AM EST
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 In recent weeks, however, Smith's traditional taciturn gravitas has been replaced by a more haunted look, the look of a man who spends his long, sleepless nights wondering what went wrong.When he returned to Rangers he knew there would be hard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. Click to continue reading...

Rangers Batarken...

Jesus Almeyda 26 October @ 02:38 PM EST
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. Click to continue reading...

The Mo Johnston Signing: Sectarianism and the Business of the Old Firm

Pitch Invasion 16 July @ 09:24 AM EST

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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Behind Closed Doors

The Scottish Football Blog 22 November @ 10:10 PM EST
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. Click to continue reading...

By George, Keep It Shut or A Chick has Kittens

The Scottish Football Blog 07 May @ 05:47 PM EST
"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. Click to continue reading...

Get the Games Played

The Scottish Football Blog 06 May @ 09:28 AM EST
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 Click to continue reading...