RANGERS manager Ally McCoist last night launched an extraordinary attack on former chief executive Charles Green who has returned to the club as a consultant. RAGING Rangers boss Ally McCoist ripped into Charles Green last night and branded the ex-Ibrox chief an embarrassment. McCoist also warned Green that he doesnât scare him â and offered to pick the Yorkshireman up at Glasgow airport. The Gers gaffer blasted Green just 24 hours after he returned to the club as a âconsultantâ. Within minutes of arriving, Green threatened McCoist with the sack if he didnât win a cup this season. Rangers crashed out of the League Cup yesterday, losing 2-1 to Forfar Athletic. And furious McCoist laid into Green in an explosive post-match press conference â cranking up the heat in the latest power struggle at the club. When asked about Greenâs remarks, he said: âIf it was a threat, the self-acclaimed straight-talking Yorkshireman should know that boys from the west of Scotland donât scare easily. âIf he does come back, Iâll certainly go and pick him up at the airport. I wonât have a problem doing that. âItâs just more hot air and itâs what weâve come to expect from Charles. Heâs just a devious man. âI was appalled by his comments. The self-acclaimed straight-talking Yorkshireman has let himself down again. âHis contempt and total lack of respect for my players, this club, our support and Scottish football is appalling. âHeâs an embarrassment. And after giving him that endorsement, it would be crazy of me to say, âWelcome back, Charlesâ.â Green repeated his claim that the Rangers side who won the Third Division last season were âthe worst in the clubâs historyâ. But McCoist said: âOur players picked up the newspapers at breakfast to be reminded theyâre the worst team in Rangersâ history. âThat would be bad luck â to have the worst team in history and the worst chief executive at the same time. âInstead of concentrating on the match, the boysâ minds were elsewhere worrying about their jobs. Because if heâs said we go if we donât win a cup then the players are under threat too. âAs team talks go, it was one of Charlesâs best yet. âI donât think itâs surprising that Charles has surfaced again when weâre at our most vulnerable on the park. We were at our weakest because we canât play our new signings. âAnd the biggest thing of the lot is that Charles has turned up just as 34,000 fans have bought season tickets. Coincidence? Perhaps not.â But McCoist did back new Ibrox chief Craig Mather after the Forfar defeat. He said: âThe current chief executive has backed us with players coming in, absolutely. âCraig has been shoulder to shoulder with us, which is something Charles has clearly taken umbrage to.â McCoistâs outburst came as it emerged Mather could be invited to stay on as CEO if the Ibrox takeover bid by engineering billionaire Jim McColl, who owns Clyde Blowers, and respected financial heavyweight Frank Blin succeeds. Mather angrily denounced the takeover move yesterday. But sources close to the consortium claimed they will hold out an olive branch to him in an attempt to tip the balance of power in their favour. They insisted it is âentirely possibleâ Mather would be asked to stay as CEO. They added: âCraig Mather may be removed as a director â but that doesnât mean he will be removed as chief executive. It may be the case that the board is content that theyâve got the right man.â Rangers announced on Friday that the consortium had launched a bid to have Mather and fellow directors Brian Stockbridge and Bryan Smart removed. They would be replaced by ex-Ibrox director Paul Murray â whose Blue Knights consortium last year failed to buy Rangers â and Blin. The new power bid is backed by a third of Ibrox shareholders. The board have three weeks to accept McCollâs proposals or an extraordinary general meeting will be called for shareholders to vote on who they want in charge. Lifelong Gers fan McColl believes heâll get the required 51 per cent needed to push through his plans if his bid goes to an EGM. But any attempt to woo Mather into McCollâs camp may prove diffcult after he yesterday branded the tycoon âarrogantâ and claimed Murray and Blin should be âashamedâ. Mather, who invested £1million in the club, said: âAgain there are those attempting to bang down the doors simply because they feel they should be inside before any others and for no good reason other than self-gain and arrogance. âIt doesnât matter to them that they have not invested or helped the club, or that they failed to make even a remotely credible attempt to save this fantastic club in its darkest hours. âNot a single one of them stepped forward willing to invest their own money. Yet now they think they can waltz into the club. âThis club needs commitment and unity. It doesnât require the type of people who stood back and did nothing when Rangers were in trouble. âThey should be ashamed.â He wants a square go with green at Glesga airport.
I don't normally agree with McCoist but on this occasion I think he's in the right. Green is a waste of space and more of a hindrance than a help, and if he's there as a "Consultant", what the **** is he doing bumping his gums about their team and how bad it is?
http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/rangerstv/item/4683-video-forfar-highlights Thoroughly deserved their win.
"I don't think there's any doubt now, Charles Green's as big a Rangers fan as there is going." Ally McCoist December 2012
I was always suspicious [video=youtube;3rH2qgqI5B8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rH2qgqI5B8[/video]
Gods got **** all to do with the wind but climate change does. Conclusions therefore must be that climate changes was elaborate ploy by Lawwell to help unsettle the new Rangers at a very important juncture in there recovery!
Yes the dearth of sunlight beneath his copious double chins has unsettled us and will surely hasten a new ice age.
Looks more like he was trying to pass wind and followed through. Well, he usually ****es it in cup games.
It's only a matter of time before Liewell hires the americans and their earthquake machine to decimate Ibrox.
