Quality Statement

RANGERS Football Club is aware of wildly inaccurate stories circulating on various websites and would like fans to know that these flights of fantasy will be monitored by our lawyers.


In particular, they are examining a malicious piece which seems to suggest that the Club does not own its facilities.

We urge Rangers fans to treat these idiotic and lumbering articles with the contempt they deserve. Better still, ignore them completely.

But we must also stress we cannot waste time responding publicly to every blog or ridiculous claim against this Club. Also, there is a dangerous proliferation of anonymous obsessives on various social media sites and we will not give them any credence.

Nor can we react to every journalist and publication who appear to pursue an anti-Rangers agenda, publications such as the Daily Record which today boasts yet another headline which does not accurately reflect what manager Ally McCoist said in his press conference yesterday.

This paper's intent is clear and we urge our fans to see it for what it is. If Rangers fans want the truth they will find it only on the Club's official platforms.


http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/4824-for-the-avoidance-of-doubt

Roughly translated 'You are ****ed'

 

Didn't Mr James Traynor say Rangers died in June 2012. Is he not the man who
makes the official statements ? Are we to believe him ?

 

Not obsessed. No siree

 

we`re laughing with you, not at you

 

Anonymous obsessives Trev give them no credence .

 

The Record is always printing headlines that have little or no baring on whats printed below them . No idea what they have done now to upset us because I didn't see the headline .

It is amusing to see Tims who constantly whinge about inaccurate reporting having a laugh at this though . It is as if hypocrisy is an alien concept to them .

 

Laughing at how gullible your support is, lapping this stuff up.

To fall for the same trick, time and time again is mind boggling.

 

THE following quotes were published on the official Rangers website on January 31, 2011.

“First, I would like to address specifically the latest attempt to undermine Rangers in today’s Daily Record which devotes five pages to trashing our efforts to get this club back on a sensible financial footing.

“In the most lurid terms, the Record accuses the club’s management and, specifically me, of using supporters’ money to help fund the buy-out of Rangers. Not true.

“The club is accused of not paying £5million in VAT. Not true.

“The Daily Record’s approach to this story sought to distort and dramatise the matter. I for one will not be reading or buying the Daily Record again and I’m sure many other Rangers fans will share my disgust at yet another smear on this football club.

“These are challenging financial times for Rangers – as they are for many other businesses. What I can say to you as a Rangers fan is that everything I will do as chairman will be in the interests of the club and I thank you for your continued support.”

For the avoidance of doubt, these quotes were attributed to Craig Whyte. On the day the Daily Record revealed the truth about his ruinous financial chicanery.

Two weeks before he plunged the club into administration.

And a full six months after he had banned yours truly for revealing what he was up to with the club’s season tickets in the first place.

A story which he aggressively dismissed as a pack of lies to the delight of many of the club’s supporters.

Much could have been done to save Rangers from Whyte, in those intervening months, if only the Daily Record had been listened to.

Which is why there was something chillingly familiar about the latest populist propaganda to have been churned out by the club’s politburo at the weekend.

It read thus: “Nor can we react to every journalist and publication who appear to pursue an anti-Rangers agenda, publications such as the Daily Record which today boasts yet another headline which does not accurately reflect what manager Ally McCoist said in his press conference yesterday.

“This paper’s intent is clear and we urge our fans to see it for what it is. If Rangers fans want the truth they will find it only on the club’s official platforms.”

These will be the same platforms which trumpeted all of Whyte’s many denials – including the very website which, as recently as a couple of weeks ago, removed quotes from the club’s own manager after McCoist had harpooned Charles Green in a press conference at Forfar.

And now they wish the world to know that the Daily Record has adopted some form of anti-Rangers agenda? How absurd. How infantile. How very sinister.

Let’s deal in the facts here, just for the avoidance of doubt.

This newspaper is a staunch supporter of Scottish football. Commercially, the more the game thrives in this country, the better it is for our business.

And while doubtless there are skewed and malevolent people out there who long for the day Rangers self-destruct for good, these extremist views are not shared across this office floor.

On the contrary, the Record knows that, in order for Scottish football to be returned to a fit state, Rangers will first have to be fixed or, to use another of McCoist’s own words, “cleansed” from the inside out. The sooner this happens the better for all of us who love our national sport.

With that in mind, this newspaper has done more than any other in an attempt to shine a light on some of the murkier operations which have been carried out behind closed doors ever since Whyte’s pointy shoes first crossed the threshold.

I take great pride in the work this paper undertook to prove Whyte was a liar and cheat. It was a six-month slog throughout which Whyte consistently cuddled up to our rivals and fed them scraps from his table.

Such subservience is an affront to journalism. But it is the easy option and one favoured by the Scottish Sun in particular.

That publication has repeatedly handed over its pages to people such as Whyte, Green, Imran Ahmad and most recently Brian Stockbridge, the financial director whose own questionable conduct regarding videoing Malcolm Murray and then releasing it has also been revealed in the Record.

Not one of the above has a good word to say about this paper and for good reason. We nailed Whyte, chased Green and Ahmad relentlessly in pursuit of the truth and exposed Stockbridge.

When this column suggested earlier this year that huge chunks of the club’s money was disappearing into other accounts, scattered to the four corners of the globe, it was accused of trouble making.

Last week, of course, Stockbridge spoke exclusively to the Sun to admit the £22m of IPO cash raised at the turn of the year has now gone – but to insist with his very next breath there is absolutely no need to be panicked by this mind-boggling cash burn. Of course, there isn’t.

And yet, only days earlier, Stockbridge claimed at a supporters’ meeting not to know how much of that money was left. If he really did not know such enormous amounts of cash had been spent then he ought to be fired for gross negligence.

Instead, tomorrow, Stockbridge will pull up a seat at a board meeting to discuss whether or not Green should continue in his role as club “consultant”.

Chief executive Craig Mather has called this gathering and he had better hope Stockbridge and directors James Easdale, Ian Hart and Bryan Smart choose to do the right thing – because if they do not agree to axe Green then Mather’s own credibility will be shot to pieces and his position untenable.

There is, of course, another critical issue to be discussed and that is a shareholders’ requisition for the removal of Stockbridge, Mather and Smart and the appointment of Paul Murray and Frank Blin as directors.

If these changes are not approved by Friday, an egm will be triggered and a bloodbath most probably will ensue.

This can still be avoided by compromise and clear thinking. But only if Green is first removed from the internal affairs of a club which continues to self-harm so spectacularly.

Saturday’s official statement was another indication of just how confused this outfit has become.

And it came 24 hours or so after McCoist and his squad checked into five-star luxury at Turnberry to prepare for a League One trip to Stranraer – an extravagance which was not lost on the club’s anxious staff, many of whom have been living in fear of redundancies and restructuring.

It went on to point out in its very last line: “Finally, Jack Irvine of Media House does not speak for this club.”

This appears to be in response to weekend quotes from the PR mogul, who is representing James and Sandy Easdale. Up until very recently Irvine’s Media House enjoyed a highly-lucrative contract with Rangers.

Over the past two years it acted also to protect the reputations and interests of Whyte, Duff and Phelps, Green, Ahmad and Stockbridge.

Earlier this month Irvine selected a group of hand-picked “friendly” journalists to interview Green at the Easdales’ bus depot.

Green used those platforms to demand £14m from Jim McColl, while admitting to being devious and an embarrassment.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Daily Record was not invited. Nor did it have any wish to be.


Some hard truths there for the rangers fans.

 

Thank **** I never read it then.

I'm depressed enough as it is.

 

Keith knows his stuff.

Much could have been done to save Rangers from Whyte, in those intervening months, if only the Daily Record had been listened to.

 

Incorrect.

 

**** off, scumbag.

You've a ****ing nerve to come back on here.

I'm gonna let all the rep guys know exactly what a little ****ing weasel you are.

Prick.

 

Is this **** still hooring for Rep on other boards? Jesus what a ****ing sadcase.

 

This has all the hallmarks of another internet bullying case.

Fucking sickens me to the bone.

 

disabled kids tags

 

Whoever has done that should take a long hard look at themselves.

 

That's totally wrong FFS. Tags are usually funny but it's really time the anonymity went to stop this sort of sick nonsense.

 

hopefully mick will name and shame

 

Plus, and more importantly, it's terrible English!

 

No chance of that. He'll do anything to protect the taig cabal.