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Monday, 15 October 2012 16:45 Little and Cole To Face Morton Written by Neil Smith ANDY LITTLE and Darren Cole are expected to return to action tomorrow night when the clubâ??s second string take on Morton at Murray Park in the SFL Reserve League. Little has now recovered from a foot injury and it is hoped the Northern Ireland star will get 45 minutes along with Kevin Kyle ahead of Saturdayâ??s Third Division clash against Queenâ??s Park at Ibrox. Little, of course, has scored eight goals from the same number of games this season and his return will be a big boost for manager Ally McCoist as will the news of Coleâ??s comeback. The 20-year-old has yet to feature in a first-team game this season due to an ankle injury but playing against Morton will give the talented defender the chance to get much-needed match action under his belt. Tommy Wilson will also field Kal Naismith, Chris Hegarty, Kyle Hutton, Francesco Stella, Andy Mitchell and Robbie Crawford against The Ton and the Reserve coach is hoping his side can build on their 4-3 away victory over Airdrie United last week. He said: â??Weâ??re all looking forward to the game and again it will be a good test for our lads. â??Mortonâ??s first team are up near the top of the First Division so in relative terms they should be one of the toughest teams we will come up against. â??Their Reserve side has also had a good start to the season so we will need to work hard and play well if we are to pick up three points. â??Hopefully we can make home advantage count as we were disappointed to lose 2-0 to Dumbarton in our last outing at Murray Park a couple of weeks ago. â??I thought we did well enough to win the game, we just didnâ??t take our chances. â??We did a bit better in that respect away to Airdrie United last week and we were pleased to win 4-3 at the Excelsior Stadium. â??But for sure we want to use the surface we have at Murray Park to dictate the way the game is played and we know the size of the pitch. â??Some of the other pitches we play on can be smaller and some are astro turf. â??So we are comfortable at home and we have to make the most of that when we take on a good Morton side." Tomorrow night's game will kick off at 7.30pm. http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/2415-little-and-cole-to-face-morton

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The half time events at Old Firm games were well-known and I quote from Iain Duff's book about Ibrox "Temple of Dreams" where the following appears on pp 90 and 91 under the heading "On the right track". "For more than 70 years the Rangers Sports had been Scotland's leading track and field event, but with the death of Bill Struth the main driving force behind the annual meetings had gone. Declining crowds led to the event finally being scrapped. However in the mid-1960's there was a slight return for athletics to the stadium. There was growing unease among the authorities at the level of trouble on the Scottish terraces, especially at Old Firm games. In an attempt to ease the tension, they came up with various initiatives aimed at diverting the rival fans' attention away from each other. One such idea was to invite prominent athletesto take part in a series of half time races on the cinder track around the pitch. Hugh Barrow, a member of Victoria Park athletics club, was one of the athletes invited to take part., running in a one mile race on the Ibrox track at the 1965 Ne'erday match. It was a bizarre experience. "On the day in question, you were told to report to the primary school on Edmiston Drive where you changed," he said. "Then the athletes warmed up on the training area under the main stand, sharing the arena with the City of Glasgow Mounted Division so you had to be careful. " As soon as the half-time whistle blew the athletes headed off down the tunnel, while the players went on the opposite direction. "When you took to the track, what an atmosphere! Not even an Olympic champion would experience this. You had been cautioned from wearing either blue or green vests - and that was a pity, as my club wore blue and white hoops" He went on, "Time was at a premium so you were on your marks immediately - the gun went - although you could hardly hear it - and you were off, heading round the Copland Road bend. Then came the first surprise, the track was lined with police, sometimes actually on the track, so it became an obstacle race. Then suddenly, halfway up the back straight, a police snatch squad rushed out in front of you across the track, heading for the crowd. When you were on your next lap, the snatch squad were on their way back across the track with a culprit, so you had to swerve to avoid them for a second time. It wasn't exactly made for fast times, however on this occasion I managed a win over my old rival, Ian McCafferty, who went on to greater things including the Olympic 5000m final in Munich. There was no prize money for the winner, "for my endeavours I was presented with a transistor radio by Scot Symon and a cold wash back at the primary school."

The Rangers Football Club was founded in 1872 at a time when it was not at all unusual for a man to be a member of several clubs in several sports: football players were also athletes, cyclists and oarsmen too. The first open athletics club in Scotland was Clydesdale Harriers, founded in 1885, and right from the start it had many from other sports as members but the connection with Rangers was strongest with several men being founder members of both clubs. The Harriers trained at the Rangers Headquarters at Kinning Park to start with and then moved to Ibrox for training facilities when the football club moved. It was natural therefore that when the Harriers started holding annual sports the initial favoured venue was Ibrox and several big and successful meetings were held there before the first world war with lots of the major stars of the sport from all over Britain being involved in the action. As early as season 1889 there were references to "joint sports with our good friends, the Rangers Football Club". These meetings continued - with the Harriers also being involved in sports meetings at the grounds of Celtic and Partick Thistle - until after 1918. Rangers provided the ground and some financial backing but the Harriers did the organising and if, as was the case on a couple of occasions, there was a slight financial loss, the Rangers covered it.

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At the start of season 1983 / 84, Ally McCoist signed for Rangers for a fee of £185,000 from Sunderland while Derek Johnstone was transferred to Chelsea.

In the early 60s, when Jim Baxter was completing his obligatory National Service with the Army, he missed quite a few games for Rangers because the Army refused to release him. He even missed out on Rangers’ famous tour of Russia in 1962 due to this. Still, the Army benefited as they played him alongside other professional players who had to do their stint in the services. That Army team was probably better than most professional ones of the time.

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New Ibrox name plan By DAVID FRIEL Published: 20 minutes ago 0 CHARLES GREEN could rename Ibrox — in a bid to inject fresh millions into Rangers. The Gers owner told fans that stadium sponsorship IS on the agenda during a meeting on Thursday night. Gaffer Ally McCoist is open-minded on the topic — but insists diehard Bluenoses MUST be consulted before the historic decision is taken. He said: “The good thing is that we are having dialogue straight away. I know for a fact the supporters groups WILL be involved. “You have seen the value of the supporters to this club over the past six to eight months. “So the least they deserve is a voice and an opinion on big, big decisions like that. “I can see both arguments when you look at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium and things like that. “I would take a view that I have to be guided by what is best for the club and the support. “I can understand the old traditionalists not wanting it. But I can also understand people moving forward and looking at the longer-term financial benefit to the club. “I am open-minded on it and at this moment I don’t sit in either camp. “But for it to happen I would think the deal would have to be of the extreme benefit of the football club.” Green is set to meet SFA President Campbell Ogilvie in the coming weeks in a bid to end their long-running feud. McCoist is happy to be involved and believes Gers’ broken relationship with the SFA CAN be fixed. He said: “The relationship is repairable. In the interests of both bodies, and indeed Scottish football, we need to have a healthy working relationship. “Within that, there will be disagreements and arguments. But they are the governing body of our game so we have to work together. “We want to get on with it. For the betterment of Scottish football, there has to be dialogue between the SFA and a club like ourselves. “We have to appreciate that our views will be different on certain things but also that we respect each other’s position.” Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/feeds/smartphone/scotland/4574697/New-Ibrox-name-plan.html#ixzz28TCXnn00

Charles Green has now been made an honorary member of @rangersfctrust.

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Fans Meeting With Charles Green At Ibrox Details Published on Friday, 05 October 2012 02:16 Written by croatianbicycles © Willie Vass CHARLES Green, Brian Stockbridge and Imran Ahmad last night met several Scottish-based representatives from the Rangers community at Ibrox. The trio gave a presentation to the assembled delegates. GREEN discussed several issues, including how he came about being involved in the consortium. Ahmad approached Green in February as Zeus were thinking about putting a deal together. Initially Green said no, but then looked at it and between them and they started putting a team together to takeover Rangers. They asked some investors to put some money in with very little details, and they showed this money to Duff & Phelp who then started to take them seriously. Over the next few months and the consortium paid £250k deposit, a total of £5.5M for the club and gave D&P another £500k to help pay the wages for May. It was also made clear that the club owns the Ibrox and the training complex at Auchenhowie 100%, again threw out allegations of Whyte’s involvement. Green mentioned the treatment from other clubs and the Scottish Football Association: UEFA meeting and no club could believe what had happened to us and treatment by SFA. One club commented that they had been bribing referees and did not get treated that badly. Green said only 5 clubs wanted to kick us out of SPL, with another 5 wanting to abstain. We asked them to stop passing buck and make a decision, and the other 5 reluctantly voted against. Green then went onto outline his future plans for the club. These included: The owners want to get more non-exec directors on board for good governance. No single investor will be allowed more than 10%. Over 5 million worldwide fan base: wants to include them all much better than before. Green has agreed a deal to buy Edmiston House from Murray. This will see the Ticket office moving to where superstore is now. The Megastore will move to bottom 2 floors of Edmiston House. The upper floors are to be converted into a sports bar. The club is committed to ensuring our merchandise is readily available in USA. Former Ibrox favourite Reyna is going to help us create academies in USA, and Bocanegra will join him once he hangs up his boots. The club believes the American market to be massive. The Asian Market is well known to our investors. This Market is seen as the biggest upcoming market, Rangers are going to get involved in a big way. The club is currently looking at partners to develop brand/ tours etc. As previously known the JJB deal terminated has been terminated and replaced by Sports Direct. Green wants to get back to 2005 levels of retail sales of £20M and profit of £5.6M per annum. The new deal with Sports Direct will help us do this. The club has been talking to Adidas, Puma and Nike about taking over Umbro deal which has been terminated, an announcement is expected soon! Puma are probably the favourites due to connections with Sports Direct. The club believes media rights are going to be huge over next decade, i.e TV migrating to web. Rangers are in talks with TV and tech companies. It is expected that media income alone will reach £100M within 10 years. Looks at example of the Champions League final which generated £1.7B. Green believes there will be a Euro league of sorts within a few years and that RFC will be a part of it, citing that the global fan base is too big to exclude us. Green also alluded to The Champions League which would be worth £20M income to club per season. The Club are going to revalue property assets at more realistic £30-40M in next balance sheet. The players are worth £2M on the balance sheet. We have a strong youth player base, in 3 years we will have 6 under 22 players with over 100 appearancess, this experience will stand club in good stead. In January 2012 the wage bill was £30M per annum. It is now £6M per annum. Policy to bring in players on good wages (£20k pw) but not pay large fees we don't get back. Looking to bring in 10 players like that between now and top league return, making max wage bill of £16M per annum. Ally McCoist believes title winning squad achievable under that budget. It seemed to be a very productive meeting for all concerned. A proper, 21st century football business model has been created, in my opinion it will put Rangers light-years ahead of every other Scottish club and closer to the “Global” football brands such as Man United, Chelsea and Real Madrid. http://rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=978%3Afans-meeting-with-charles-green-at-ibrox&catid=102%3Afans&Itemid=530

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He did mention improving the stadium and surrounding area including the Edmonston club Also introducing a bar similar to bar72 into the main stand Don't think he has a three year plan but he does mention a 25 year plan

Yes he never confirmed anything, but did say basically the best deal wins ...basically, but emphasised puma. Sports Direct deal, sounds like a cracker..... gony be a mega money spinner.

from rm 3 kit sponsors on the table, adiddas, puma and warrior. Nothing signed yet. Apple want the naming rights to ibrox. Edminston house to be turned into ticket office and rooftop cafe. Surrounding areas to include hotel and cancer centre. The wage bill is down from 30million to 6 million. The budget for the return to the top in a reconstructed league has been discussed with the manager. Rangers are debt free. no mention of roof top cafe, it was Sports bar haha

Re: Charles Green and Co met the fans from ff It was clear that the business team in place have looked at every piece of expenditure and looked at how they can keep money in house Moving shop into Edmonston building and creating a mega store Having a bar / cafe area Using existing shop as a new ticket office They are speaking to three shirt manufacturers Puma - Adiddas and Warrior Developing surrounding area, British land and Ardmore both developers with track records were mentioned Plans showed viable and feasible businesses They also discussed a media deal which if was to come to fruitition - would be fantastic Renaming the stadium and M#%#%# park were mentioned Wage bill previously £30 million - now £6 million Discussed how team will grow to required size as and when required Discussed SPL and reiterated that he will not be taking Rangers back into SPL Fans asked if BBC had apologised to Ally about distasteful video befor Motherwell game They have not Discussed " fans " talk of boycotting away games to SPL clubs He said he was against that as our players need support when we are away from home ( personally I say support the team but buy feck all from their food outlets ) Some things were said which I think should be kept off the forum until announced in papers

Long before the arrival of Brian Laudrup, Rangers had discovered another " Great Dane", " Prince of Denmark" - fill in your own cliche here. His name was Carl Hansen, a centre-forward who had played against Rangers on their close season tour of Denmark in 1922. However, his nickname was "The Little Shoemaker" ( bet you hadn't filled that one in above!) and as well as being a success at Ibrox ( and a life-long Gers fan) he became the first foreigner to score in an Old Firm match. Unfortunately what should have been a long, glittering career was cut short when his leg was broken playing for the Reserves in 1924 resulting in him having to give up playing and return to Denmark.

Maybe ten or twenty years from now people will look back and say, 'That McCoist scored some number of goals.' (Ally McCoist, 1993)

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Charles Green Statement Written by Rangers Football Club RANGERS Chief Executive Charles Green has released the following statement today. “I am pleased the judicial panel accepted today that I had not brought the game into disrepute. “What I said, I said in good faith and I was speaking up for the interests of Rangers. To be critical of the SPL’s handling of the EBT issue, does not mean that I am showing disrespect for the game and that view appears to have been shared by the judicial panel. “It is my hope that we can all move on from today and start working constructively for the good of the game. “The creation of the EBT Commission by the SPL following the events of the summer and the Club’s attempts at constructive discussion has been particularly difficult for those of us who are new to Rangers and are trying to rebuild the Club. “It appears for all the world to be yet another obstacle being placed in our path as we try to rebuild a great Scottish sporting institution. “I am the first person to accept that there are people who have been associated with Rangers who have brought the game into disrepute, particularly the previous regime whose delinquent approach to paying taxes triggered a series of events that brought the Club to the brink of destruction. “The consortium I led came to the table with one objective in mind: to save Rangers Football Club and rebuild what is a great sporting institution. “There has been an enormous amount of goodwill towards us. Rangers fans have shown beyond all measure what loyalty to your team really means. Staff, who have worked through dreadful turmoil in recent years, continue to go the extra mile. Some players have stayed when they need not have and youngsters have become young men in the team. “There has also been great goodwill shown by investors who recognise the potential of Rangers and sponsors who see the tremendous opportunities at Ibrox. The international media are queuing up to speak to us and chart the recovery of the Club. “In football too, there has been real goodwill from the Scottish Football League and its member clubs who have taken a view that it is better to look forward than back and that the game benefits from a vibrant Rangers. “Perhaps it is now time that those people within the SPL who have been pursuing Rangers at every turn take stock. As a member of the SFA, we want to work constructively within its structure and hope that all parties and organisations can take a view that what is of paramount importance is the good of the game. “To that end, we will be meeting with SFA President Campbell Ogilvie in the near future. “We want to be a force for good in football and it is surely to the benefit of all that the way forward is not frustrated by continually trying to look back.”

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