Charles Green can be to Rangers what Fergus McCann was to Celtic 26 Oct 2012 00:01 THE Ibrox chief will stay at the club for the long-term and his approach is similar to that of The Bunnet. WHEN Charles Green first walked through the front doors of Ibrox the biggest fear among Rangers fans was that they were getting landed with another Craig Whyte. Five months on, itâs beginning to look as if what theyâve actually got is their very own Fergus McCann. OK, I canât claim to know the man currently at the helm of my club and steering it through the most troubled waters in its 140-year history. The truth is Iâve met him just once. For about five seconds. But I will say this â Iâm really beginning to warm to him. And I donât think Iâm the only one. (Really? I wonder why) His latest comments in todayâs Daily Record have struck a chord and not just because heâs talking about staying in place until the Champions League theme tune is blasting out around Ibrox once again. No, it seems Green has caught the bug. We call it Rangersitis. (Surely you mean you âCalled itâ Rangersitis?) And the way he is talking reminds me very much of the approach The Bunnet brought to Celtic all those years ago when he turned that club around. (Did he create a siege mentality? Did he state that he had received Death Threats, did he brand people âBigotsâ or call the SFA/SPL âEnemies of Celtic?) Wee Fergus put his cards on the table and told Celtic fans he would be working to a five-year plan. He promised them â as a fan himself â he would restructure their club from top to bottom within that timescale and then leave. And he was as good as his word. (Thereâs a big difference though, Fergus said that from the outset, he did not change horses midstream in an attempt to flim flam the Celtic support) Now Green appears to be singing from a similar hymn sheet and I donât think itâs any coincidence that, having spent so much time at the club over the last few months, it seems Rangers have got under his skin.(Like Psoraisis?) Believe me, as an Englishman who came up here in 1990 I know how that can happen. Rangers are not just another football club. Rangers are a way of life. (Pull up a chair, I feel a wander down memory lane, viewed through misty blue goggles coming up) Twenty two years later Iâm still here and I canât imagine living or working anywhere else. The club means that much to me. (So you live at Ibrox?) There is a magnetism about the Old Firm that people just donât understand until they find themselves wrapped up in the middle of it all. (Aha, here we go, a sly attempt to placate cynical Tims like myself by making me feel all warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that Celtic are âSpecialâ too) And I think itâs hit Green right between the eyes. Heâs been at Sheffield United in the past and they are a big club in their own right. But they pale into insignificance when compared with the scale and pull of Rangers.(That oneâs so old it has whiskers) And I think thatâs probably caught Charles by surprise. He thought he knew what he was getting involved in but in reality he didnât have a clue. As a businessman â and a smart one at that â he will be seeing opportunities open up that he didnât even know existed when he first gained control. (I see now, a guy who by your own admission you donât even know, but you know heâs a smart businessman how exactly?) There is money to be made and thatâs another big reason why heâll be in no rush to move on. Letâs be honest, thereâs no way he could have imagined selling 38,000 season tickets for a club in the Third Division. Even I have been stunned and delighted by the sheer ferocity (sic) of the support behind the club, so a guy like Green must be pinching himself. Half the teams in Englandâs Premier League donât shift that amount of tickets. (if the figures are accurate that is?) But if thereâs money in it for the businessmen that can only be good for the football side of things. And if the aim is to deliver Rangers back into the Champions League then, ultimately, everyone will be a winner. (Everyone?, the creditors certainly wonât) I may not have had a proper chat with the man but people I know and trust â who have the clubâs interests at heart â have spoken with him and are impressed with what they heard. They tell me he is a credible guy with credible plans.(Well thatâs good enough for me, people you know who know him have vouched for him, result ) That means he has come a long way from those early days when no Rangers fan wanted to touch him with a bargepole. (Or a machete) The fear was that he was a snake oil salesman looking to cash in on a club that had already been dragged through its darkest days by Whyte. It has taken Green time to win people over and understandably so. But he is working hard to gain their trust and heâs defending their club, which hasnât always happened in the past. (Which owner did not defend Rangers in the past?) Heâs standing up for the fans and Rangers and fighting for their best interests. In short, heâs putting his heart and soul into their club and thatâs all any Rangers supporter ever asks of those who represent them. Iâm not saying Green has won all the hearts and minds at Ibrox. He hasnât. But heâs proving himself to them and although he probably still has a lot more to prove, he is saying and doing all the right things. And now, by saying that itâs no longer just about turning a fast buck, by buying into the dream of returning the club to the top of the game before he leaves, he is showing he shares all the ambitions of the supporters. He is displaying the kind of passion that is a requirement of the badge.(If Green says so then it must be true according to Atilla) And he is also acting with the transparency the Rangers fans deserve after everything they have been put through over the last couple of years. ( Unbelievable) Heâs the opposite of Whyte â and a throwback to Wee Fergus. (This opinion is based upon what?) And if he delivers what he says he will â whether it takes him four years or 10 â then his place in the history of Rangers will be secured. (Even if he does not allow the SPL to promote them from the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] Division?) As told to Keith Jackson
Mark "I've heard punters say: "Even if they're liquidated, they'll come back with a new name and the history will still be there." But I don't agree - it just won't be the same Rangers" Hateley meet Mark "I can’t claim to know the man currently at the helm of my club and steering it through the most troubled waters in its 140-year history" Hateley What is it with these ****s?
Hateley should post on these forums regularly. He comes up with the typical shoite that Rangers posters do. Charles Green will not put £1.00 of his own money into Sevco/Rangers for one very good reason he has none. Whyte, remember had all the money, a billionaire from Motherwell. Mr Whye has still to get his million out of Rangers/Sevco, so Green needs a good take-up of the Shares to get Whyte off his back.
I have a beauty from the days of Yore from Hateley, i'll see if I can dig it out, it is the most brilliant series of revisionist articles ever written.
Just like fergus? One minor difference fergus saved the club, Green hasn't. Green's failure to get a cva has put them in a rather difficult position. If the share issue isn't a relative success, then rebuilding is going to take 10+years. Plus if rumours are to be believed, unlike fergus giving us a brand new stadium, rangers are going to lose theirs.
www.rangersitits.com/symptoms Symptoms of Rangersitis Failure to grasp basic concepts regarding finance Will answer questions with the reply "You're Obsessed" Low pain threshold -The patient believes they have been punished enough even though they haven't even been punished. Memory loss - Patient will suffer from severe memory loss and will likely repeat the same mistakes they made last year. They will also fail to remember simple things like peoples names and will interrupt you to demand who you are in the interests of clarity. The latest World Health Report reckons that rangersitis is spreading and by 2013 up to 500,000,000 could be infected. Unfortunately there is no know cure at the moment, but Doctor C.Green is believed to be close to a cure.
Probably the most pathetic thing you've ever typed, Russ. Almost as bad as Weebles back-catalogue of "quotes" from days of Yore.
Wedgey is right. I do have some utterly pathetic quotes. I got one this week by a guy with 3 photocopiers. It was so utterly pathetic I almost wept.
