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Rangers FC Official‏@RFC_Official18sCeltic awarded a penalty after Brownlie hauled down McMullan...

Ten minutes in and it's still goalless. Rangers with two good chances already, one from Sinnamon cleared off the line!

Rangers FC Official‏@RFC_Official4m#RFC team to face Celtic: Kelly, Sinnamon, Mills, Brownlie, Pascazio, Mossie, Ogen, Dykes, Hardie, Stoney, Walsh On the bench tonight for #RFC are: Adam Wilson, Stephen Chatterton, Ben Reilly, Lewis Morgan and Jamie Wilson

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The 2013 Rangers Player of the Year is the one and only, Lee McCulloch

Rangers Players' Player of the Year 2013 is Lee Wallace

Tennent's Goal of the Season 2013 is @dtempleton89 vs Clyde on Feb 16th #screamer

Rangers FC Official‏@RFC_Official2mRecipient of the 2013 John Greig Achievement award is Sandy Jardine, received by Ally McCoist. Get well soon Sandy!

Lewis MacLeod has been voted the Rangers Young Player of the Year for 2013.

Stanley Matthews playing for Rangers

Paul Murray, the Blue Knight calling for core values Paul Murray. Picture: SNS By Tom English Published on 28/04/2013 00:00 IN THE cast of characters in the recent history of Rangers, the unreliables have come to outweigh the upright with near Apocalyptic consequences. Paul Murray can be counted in the second category, a guy you could hang your hat on to do what is right for the club or, to put it another way, an endangered species in this brutal saga. The former director has plenty to say about what is happening at Rangers. The damage caused by Craig Whyte, the desperate uncertainty created by Charles Green, the role of the administrators Duff and Phelps in allowing Green in the door in the first place and the changing fabric at Ibrox. Among other things, Murray suggests that when â?? or, perhaps, if â?? calm is restored in the club then a new constitution should be drawn up to make clear what Rangers ought to be about. Some of that has been lost along the way. â??Whoever is involved going forward has to look after the clubâ??s interests first and their own interests second,â? he says. â??You are a custodian of the assets and youâ??re passing it through the generations. Thatâ??s your role. They should actually write a new constitution for Rangers which says that everybody who goes on the board has to agree to core values and if they donâ??t they canâ??t join. It sounds preposterous in some ways but I donâ??t think itâ??s a bad idea. â??All of these people arrive and talk about global brands. Weâ??ve heard all this stuff before, for years and years and itâ??s not there. Iâ??m a Rangers supporter and Iâ??ll defend the club against anyone, but Rangers are not Manchester United, letâ??s be honest. Itâ??s good to aspire to be, but weâ??re not. Itâ??s a different financial landscape altogether. So all these guys who arrive and talk about global potential and brands...Get your feet back on the ground and look at the reality. â??The club should be run on a break-even basis based on domestic revenues. What you raise from domestic football you invest in the club and if you generate funds from European football you use that money to invest in the playing squad and the infrastructure. We should also get back to some of the values that were there under Bill Struth and William Wilton and the clubâ??s founders where you had a bit of decorum and a bit of dignity in the club. It will be a long time to rebuild that after everything thatâ??s happened, but we should try.â? Decorum and dignity, alien concepts in these dog-days when a fraudulent former owner is running amok, when a former chief executive and self-confessed liar embarrasses the club with a racist comment, when a now former commercial director is rumoured to be an abusive secret contributor to a website and when the entire institution is seemingly in jeopardy because of the actions of chancers. BDO, Deloitte, Pinsent Masons are all delving into various strands of this horror show to try to determine who owns what and who ought to go on trial, and possibly, jail because of what has gone on at Ibrox. â??You have Charles Green who said he had no involvement with Craig Whyte and that was patently not correct,â? says Murray. â??The problem is that when you get found out on these things you then start to question other things. And one of the most important things in all of this is the SFA. The SFA sought very direct and specific assurances that Whyte was not involved and Charles Green gave them those assurances and Iâ??m not sure that was actually correct. â??If Charles Green had a set of documents that proved that Whyte is lying then this thing would have been put to bed in two minutes, but it was then discovered that what Whyte was saying was broadly true. Then you start thinking, â??Hang on, if thatâ??s true then what else is true?â?? Iâ??m not saying he does, but say Whyte owns the assets but on the other side heâ??s just lost a multi-million pound claim to Ticketus. Are we saying that Ticketus would then own the assets by default? And if they own the assets theyâ??ll want to be paid in order to give the assets back to Rangers, but how will the club do that bearing in mind that it had an IPO [initial Public Offering of shares] that is potentially not valid? Itâ??s a legal mess and it all needs to come out in the open, even if itâ??s bad news.â? Murray spoke to the Rangersâ?? liquidators, BDO, for the first time last November. BDO and the police, too. Their original intention was just to examine the circumstances surrounding Whyteâ??s purchase of the club from David Murray and his subsequent activity at Ibrox but now that web will have to widen, says the former director. Paul Murray, of course, was part of the Blue Knights consortium that was defeated by Green. The events of last year have never sat well with him. They donâ??t pass the â??smell testâ?. In this regard heâ??s talking about the performance of the administrators Duff and Phelps, another key player in the wretched situation of today. BDO asked Murray for his thoughts on Duff and Phelps. He said he was very surprised that they were allowed to take the job in the first place given that one of their partners, David Grier, was involved with Whyte in the takeover of the club and was one of the people alongside Whyte on the day they marched triumphantly through the door at Rangers with the acclamation of the support ringing in their ears. â??Then lo and behold, Duff and Phelps get appointed administrators,â? says Murray. â??Every insolvency practitioner I spoke to in Scotland was absolutely staggered that they were made administrators. They had a conflict of interest. Itâ??s been reported that the only time that people within Rangers ever saw Craig Whyte panic was when he thought Duff and Phelps would not be appointed. That sums up the whole thing. â??When I was involved in getting a bid together last year the administrators said to me almost every day for four months that HMRC would be sympathetic in terms of a CVA as long as Whyte wasnâ??t involved, that they were sensitive to Rangers socially and culturally, that I wasnâ??t to worry about it. That wasnâ??t the case because HMRC said later they never had any intention of voting for the CVA. And Duff and Phelps also said to me, every day almost, donâ??t worry about Craig Whyte, heâ??s an irrelevance and that was patently not right. It doesnâ??t pass the smell test. â??Duff and Phelpsâ?? conduct will be looked at by BDO. They had a conflict of interest at the start and the role of David Grier has to be looked at very closely and his relationship with Craig Whyte and the allegations that Craig Whyte has made in terms of Sevco 5088 and Sevco Scotland and all these transfers. Pinsent Masons will be looking at that as well.â? Murray stated last weekend that there are only two people on the current Rangers board that he trusts without reservation â?? the chairman Malcolm Murray and his old chum, Walter Smith. Malcolm Murray, though, needs to talk more, he says. â??Malcolm has said that the money from the IPO is still there and thereâ??s no cause to worry on that front and I trust Malcolm. He has Rangersâ?? interests at heart, no question, but I do think that he ought to communicate more with the media. The problem with this is that there has been a massive vacuum created and when you have a vacuum you have gossip and innuendo and rumour and anxiety and panic and so I think he needs to be a bit more communicative. I know itâ??s a public company and there are certain restrictions but that doesnâ??t prevent other public companies being open and transparent in terms of telling customers (or supporters) what is going on. Thatâ??s something he should do a bit more of.â? In the interests of transparency he would like an independent chairman sitting above the current commission, a retired QC or chartered accountant that has no link to Rangers and who the commission would report to. It probably wonâ??t happen, but he thinks it should. â??The issue is not just about being independent but about being seen to be independent.â? This was a concerned Rangers man talking, a former director but above all, a fan. Just like John Brown is a fan. â??Bomberâ? re-iterated his views on the Green takeover on radio during the week, saying that he knew Green was a â??conmanâ? and that he went to key personnel inside Ibrox and told them what he knew, but they did nothing about it. He spoke to Walter Smith and Ally McCoist. Nobody did anything. â??I know John quite well,â? says Murray. â??Heâ??s a great guy who cares for the club. When I saw him giving that speech outside Ibrox last summer I was a bit bemused. I had the same concerns about Charles Green. The circumstances surrounding Charles Green suddenly appearing on the scene were very, very strange. So I had concerns about who was involved with him, but I had no proof. I had a high level of suspicion about Duff and Phelps but I didnâ??t have documentary proof that Craig Whyte was involved. â??So John stood up and was quite specific about things but after the speech there was nothing produced in evidence. John didnâ??t step forward and say I have four documents that prove that Whyte is still involved in this thing. Had he done that it would have been a completely different story, but he didnâ??t, for whatever reason. That was probably why Walter and Ally didnâ??t do anything. What action could they have taken? You canâ??t make allegations without documentation. Iâ??ve spoken to John subsequent to that. It might turn out that he was absolutely right. The frustration is that if he had something at the time then he probably ought to have stepped forward with it.â? The only people that need to step forward now are Deloitte, Pinsent Masons and BDO. After two years in the fog, Murray longs for the clarity their reports will bring. http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/sport/football/paul-murray-the-blue-knight-calling-for-core-values-1-2912290#.UXxeUugNlWo.twitter

[h=1]Fans give £1200 to beat ban[/h] Rebecca Gray Reporter Rangers' fans have raised more than £1200 for two hospitals - just 48 hours after the Evening Times revealed their charity bid had been snubbed by the organisers of a Glasgow gala. Rangers' group raises cash just 48hrs after snub Custom byline text: EXCLUSIVE By REBECCA GRAY As reported on Wednesday, Gibson Street Gala banned The Founders Trail – an organisation that researches the history of Rangers – from collecting money at the event for Yorkhill and Erskine hospitals. The group was told it was "too controversial" and could not take part. But fans behind the donations website – dubbed Making Amends for Gibson Street Gala – said they did not want the charities to miss out on the cash that would have been raised at the June event. More than £1200 has been donated since the site was launched on Thursday. Founders Trail organiser Iain McColl, from Cumbernauld, said: "We have been overwhelmed by the response from people. "Rangers' supporters have pulled together, as they have done so many times in the past, to raise funds. It's fantastic. "The amount of money raised in just a few hours has been nothing short of remarkable. "The aim of the stall was always to simply raise money for these charities. "Yorkhill and Erskine are crying out for cash, it would have been so unfair if they were to miss out. "So much has been raised already and the amount will continue to rise." Organisers of the Gala had said the Founders Trail stall "just didn't fit in" with their event. Secretary Eric Kay said: "We have never had any complaints about any other stalls before, so it stands out. "That's not a slight on this organisation. We just felt it wasn't fitting with our event." To donate to the fund, see: http://uk.virgin moneygiving.com/ oldandyoung rebecca.gray@ eveningtimes.co.uk The amount of money raised in just a few hours is remarkable

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Nacho Set For Legends Clash Written by Andrew Dickson NACHO NOVO is the latest star to sign up for next monthâ??s Legends game â?? and he hopes to convince Ally McCoist to sign him up for next season while heâ??s here. The Spanish striker will be part of the squad of former Rangers players which will face a team of counterparts from Manchester United at Ibrox on Monday, May 6. And it will be an emotional return to his spiritual home for the man whose penalty shoot-out winner against Fiorentina sent the Light Blues to the UEFA Cup final in 2008. Signed from Dundee for £400,000 in the summer of 2004, the attacker made an instant impact as he scored 25 goals in his first season with the Light Blues. Most crucially, his strike in a 1-0 win against Hibernian at Easter Road at the end of that term ensured Rangers won the title on Helicopter Sunday as Celtic lost 2-1 at Motherwell. Novo had a habit of scoring hugely important goals in his time playing under Alex McLeish, Paul Le Guen and Walter Smith. Amongst his more significant counters were one that put Gers into the Champions League group phase in 2007 and the Scottish Cup final winner against Falkirk in 2009. Now heâ??s dreaming of getting another goal in the end-of-season charity fixture â?? but if itâ??s up to him it wonâ??t be his last in Govan. Novo is currently at Huesca in the Spanish Segunda Division but his deal there only runs until the end of the season. After three years away from the team he enjoyed six wonderful seasons with, he wants to come home. And with Rangers restricted to signing out-of-contract players who they can register to play from September 1, Novo hopes an agreement can be struck. He said: â??I canâ??t wait to come back to Ibrox. I am looking forward to the game a week on Monday and Iâ??m delighted to be taking part. â??I really want to be there and itâ??s exciting to be returning. I have an important match with my club on the Sunday but then I will be travelling to Glasgow that night to be involved. â??I canâ??t wait to play for the fans again. I have always been close to them and I have really missed that side of things while I have been away because Rangers are massive. â??The supporters have suffered a lot this season with the situations at the club and hopefully I can help them have a nice way to finish the year. â??I canâ??t wait to feel the atmosphere they create and I just hope itâ??s not the last time I play at Ibrox. â??At this moment in time, I am leaving Huesca at the end of the season and I want to come back to Rangers. â??It still feels like I only left yesterday. It is my team, my club, and I really miss it. It is in my mind that I want to return to the club next season. â??I will need to speak with Coisty and see what he says but that is the first thing on my mind. I would love to play for the club again. â??I have so many good memories and it has been nice over the years to have so many fans asking me to come back. For me, it is my home.â?

This Bowler Hat worn be Davie Wilson after winning '64 Scottish Cup Final now hangs in the Managers Office in Ibrox

'88! GOAL! - It's double figures for the #Swifts as Ben Reilly hammers home at the near post. RFC 10:1 Airdrie United.

Rangers FC Official‏@RFC_Official1hRangers: Kelly; Chatterton, Pascazio, Brownlie, A. Wilson; Ogen, Mossie, Dykes, Walsh; Hardie, Stoney Subs: J.Wilson, Reilly, Morgan, Gibson '4 - GOAL! - An early lead for the #Swifts as Ryan Hardie latches on to Liam Kelly's long free kick to slot home. RFC 1:0 Airdrie Utd '8 - GOAL! A second for the #Swifts as Tom Walsh gets enough on his shot to beat the Airdrie keeper '16 - GOAL! - Ryan Hardie gets his second and Rangers' third as he nods home from close range. '21 - GOAL! Hat-trick for Ryan Hardie as he runs on to Tom Walsh's long ball and rounds the keeper '22 - GOAL! - Another comes quickly for the #Swifts as Danny Stoney weaves his way through the defence to fire home '25 - GOAL! Three in four minutes for the #Swifts! Junior Ogen gets too much space and slots easily past the keeper '26 - GOAL! Another! Four for Ryan Hardie and seven for the #Swifts. '28 - GOAL - Liam Coogans pulls one back for Airdrie. RFC 7:1 Airdrie United. HT: After 8 goals in 28 minutes there were no more in the first half. RFC 7:1 Airdrie '50 - GOAL! Ryan Hardie bags his fifth for the #Swifts as they extend their lead after great work from Danny Stoney. RFC 8:1 Airdrie '53 - GOAL! - A double hat trick for Ryan Hardie! His sixth of the night as the #Swifts pick up where they left off in the first half. 9:1

Douglas Fraser‏@BBCDouglasF4mBBC Scotland sports staff understand Charles Green has told the board of #Rangers FC he intends to stand down as chief executive

Chris McLaughlin‏@BBCchrismclaug4mBBC Scotland has learned Charles Green has indicated to #Rangers board he will step down as CEO. More to follow