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    wee daft fact

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    seen on FF

    This is the front cover from a magazine about World Sport from April 1950. On the front cover are three Rangers greats inside was a small story that perhaps current player's grandads or dads could relate to.

     

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    Jackson Tweet - Green Takeover

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    Rangers whistleblower and former 'company secretary' Sevim Cesim snapped at airport with Ally McCoist after flying to Scotland to be quizzed by cops

     

    THE French businesswoman was reportedly ousted from her job after she raised queries about how money was being spent at Ibrox.

     

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    Sevim Cesim with Ally McCoist at Glasgow AirportPOLICE probing Charles Green’s Rangers reign have quizzed a key whistleblower.

    French businesswoman Sevim Cesim was questioned in Scotland on Wednesday.

    And yesterday, former Gers boss Ally McCoist was spotted giving her a send-off at Glasgow airport.

    Cesim was a central figure in Green’s original takeover team. McCoist befriended the ex-financial high-flyer during her short spell working in Glasgow in 2012, when she helped Green, Imran Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge prepare for a public share offering that raised more than £22million.

    Cesim effectively worked as the company secretary but was sacked within weeks of the share issue being completed.

    It is understood senior figures at the club attempted to oust her after she raised queries about how the money was being spent. Cesim later contacted the Serious Fraud Office with her concerns.

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    Sevim Cesim with Ally McCoist and her travelling companion at Glasgow AirportIt’s thought that Green’s Rangers burned through an astonishing £70million in less than 18 months.

    Cesim declined to comment yesterday as she made her way back to the south of France.

    But an insider said: “Sevim Cesim may not be one of the biggest or most well known names in this particular chapter of the Rangers saga but she just might become one of the most important players in this police investigation.

    "She raised the alarm not only when she was working inside the club but also with the authorities after she had left. The truth is that guys like Green, Stockbridge and Ahmad didn’t like the kind of

    questions she was asking. But Police Scotland are likely to be a great deal more receptive.”

    A team of officers have spent around two years investigating the events that led to Rangers’ collapse under previous owner Craig Whyte in February 2012 – and the financial chaos which followed under Green.

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    Malcolm Murray with Brian Stockbridge, Imran Ahmad and Charles GreenWhyte bought the club from Sir David Murray in May 2011 only to plunge them into administration nine months later. After Rangers were liquidated, Green and his team bought the club’s assets in a £5.5million closed-shop deal with administrators Duff & Phelps.

    It’s believed Cesim arrived in Glasgow soon after. She had worked with Ahmad and Stockbridge at

    Zeus Capital, a Manchester firm who backed Green’s buyout.

    Whyte was arrested and charged with fraud in November last year.

    Duff & Phelps trio David Whitehouse, Paul Clark and David Grier face charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

    Police said last night they would make no comment on any individual helping them with their inquiries.

     

     

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    Sammy Cox

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    Rangers FC ‏@RangersFC 37m37 minutes ago Fans can read about the career of Sammy Cox within his @RangersFC Hall of Fame profile here: http://rng.rs/1LYRFoE

     

     

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    COX completed the Iron Curtain defence. Though a naturally left-sided player, he was comfortable in either berth at full back or wing half.

     

    During his time at Ibrox he even played inside forward and once at outside left and he also appeared for a Scotland side at inside forward against France in Paris in 1948.

    He had good technical ability and a quick football brain which gave him a tremendous positional sense.

    Cox was also a ferocious tackler, despite being only 5ft 8ins tall and weighing less than 11 stones.

    He was born in Darvel on April 13 1924 and played as a teenage amateur for Queen's Park, Third Lanark and Dundee during the war.

    He turned professional with Rangers in May 1946, playing his first game in a 4-0 defeat of Airdrie in the Victory Cup that month.

    Cox made his League debut at right back in August 1946 in the 4-2 win at Motherwell.

    He played 13 League games that season in four different positions, also appearing at right half, left half and inside right.

    By the 1947-48 season he had established himself and played in every League game, including one on the left wing against Clyde. Cox even got the winner in a 2-1 victory.

    He won the first of his club honours with Rangers that season, a Scottish Cup winners' medal in the 1-0 replayed Final against Morton.

    By the following season he had moved to left half and George Young had switched to right back to complete a formidable defence which also included Bobby Brown, Jock Shaw, Ian McColl and Willie Woodburn.

    That Iron Curtain laid the foundations for Rangers to become the first team to win the Treble, which they did in 1948-49. Cox missed only one League game as Rangers took the title by a point from Dundee.

    His one League Cup medal was won in March 1949 with a 2-0 victory over Raith Rovers and Cox earned his second Scottish Cup winners' medal in the 4-1 defeat of Clyde in the Final in April.

    That year he won his first full Scotland cap, rejoicing in a 3-1 win over England at Wembley. Cox won 24 caps for Scotland and was captain against the English in his farewell international year in 1954.

    Back at Ibrox, Cox was ever-present again in 1949-50 as Rangers retained the League title. Cox also got his third and final Scottish Cup winners' medal that season as East Fife were beaten 3-0 in the Final.

    The next two seasons were barren years as Rangers failed to win a major honour. Cox played fewer games, varying between left half and left back.

    But in 1952-53, Cox was back as a permanent fixture at left half and won the last of his three Championships.

    Sadly, however, he missed out on a fourth Scottish Cup winners' medal as Rangers beat Aberdeen without him.

    Halfway through the 1953-54 season he was switched again to left back and by the next season his appearances were down to 12 League games.

    He played his last match in a Rangers jersey in the 2-1 defeat by Aberdeen in the Sixth Round of the Scottish Cup on February 19 1955.

    Cox spent a few seasons with East Fife before emigrating to Canada in 1959.

    The quality and versatility of his positional play was such that some commentators called him a player out of his time, one they said who would have fitted naturally into the fluid Brazilian team of the 1980s.

    When you think that Brazil then had midfield players such as Socrates and Falcao, you begin to understand the esteem in which Sammy Cox was held.

     

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