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BLACK 'N BLUE ... Gers boss McCoist and chief exec Green launch new shirt deal
BLACK 'N BLUE ... Gers boss McCoist and chief exec Green launch new shirt deal
I’m delighted.. and frustrated
By CHARLES GREEN
Last Updated: 02nd March 2013
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RANGERS accepted being put in the Third Division.
It was not our choice, but once our fans made their views plain, we were keen to get on with our lives.
However, following Thursday’s decision by the commission, if we could turn back time would we still be where we are today?
I don’t think we would.
I think we would be in the SPL and these are the frustrations for us.
When I heard the news, like every Rangers fan I was delighted because all that pressure on the fans, management and players was a big thing. I think back to those dark days of last summer when Ally McCoist and I were going into meetings with lawyers at 7am.
It was dead easy — just sign bits of paper and we are all done.
The first draft of that five-way agreement was stripping us of League Cups and Scottish Cups — plus SPL titles.
I had numerous meetings with SPL members who formed a little committee.
If I had rolled over, it would have been fantastic for my consortium because we would still have been in the SPL on big revenues, still playing in Europe.
But it was not right. Rangers did wrong. We were punished, deserved it.
I said we would not play in the SPL while I’m chief executive and while they were title-stripping.
Now that obstacle has gone, but I have not changed my mind about that. I still think the SPL is a tarnished brand.
We don’t know what division we will be in next season and in my mind we won’t have a decision before May.
That will mean no one’s going to be able to sell season tickets.
It’s not just: ‘What’s the structure? 12-12-10-10, right — we’re up for it, lads’. It’s deeper than that.
If we look on the current timetable and what’s required, they are going to have to changes Articles of Association and raise share capital.
And they need to have a rule book because SFL rules are different to SPL rules in relation to things like how many players you have, how many work permits you are allowed.
Who is on the board? Who is going to be chairman of it? Have you seen his balance sheet? Have you done due diligence on him? Have you seen the TV contract? The answer — No.
If you think of all these huge issues, it is complete madness.
So the big question isn’t: ‘Is it 12-12-10-10, or 12-12-18 or any combination of those’?
For me, that’s the last thing we should be considering.
The game here CAN be saved — where there’s a will there’s a way.
Last April the question was if I could save Rangers.
For me, sorting Scottish football is easier than sorting out Rangers, considering the hurdles we had to overcome.
But there was a willingness to do it here. I don’t know if there is a willingness on the other side. And I don’t know who’s going to take ownership of it. Anyway, I’m the last person you should be asking about restructuring Scottish football.
There are 42 professional or semi-professional clubs in Scotland, and 41 of them have a better idea than Charles Green has because they have been through it.
I don’t want to be known as the man who destroyed Scottish football.
Rangers, with its history and tradition, has an obligation to Scotland, to make sure that Scotland continues to have a football business.
Do I think Rangers and Celtic are too big to be in Scotland? Of course I do.
There’s been more dialogue in the last three months from UEFA.
Even Campbell Ogilvie has said the SFA would not stop Rangers and Celtic leaving Scotland. We’ll see.
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