Former Rangers player, John Brown, spoke to Sky Sports this morning outside Ibrox and launched a takeover bid for the former club’s assets. Yesterday he resigned as a scout for the company before urging Rangers fans not to renew their season tickets.
In an interview reminiscent of a memorable scene from Blazing Saddles, Brown told Sky:
“If [the fans]invest, we’ll setup a bank account that all the season ticket money can go in there, and we can guarantee that we will buy this club over from this regime because it’s coming back into Rangers hands.
“Gone are the days, of the, the money that we spent. It’s going to be handled differently this time. The fans are going to buy it over. We have the backing from powerful people who are going to invest, but the fans will invest, and they’ll offer Charles Green, if he says he’s got the title deeds in his name, we’ll make an offer, once we see the hidden letters, any deeds that have been done in the past, if there’s any stumbling blocks, where’s Ticketus in all this, we’ll deal with that, once we see the title deeds, of this stadium, that I was proud to play for, in a number of years through nine-in-a-row, and we’re going to get our club back, but we need a bit of honesty from Charles Green.”
Reports that after hearing Brown, Charlie Nicholas is worried for his analyst position with the broadcaster, have not been confirmed.
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Monaghan
Undoubtedly … But will he
That guy is a liability , a dangerous liability
!!Bada Bing!!
Just noticed you and your mate kittoch behind me
on predictor,2 games to go ,nae chance of you 2
EK numpties catching me :o)
@sgallacher1986: All the “heroic” SPL chairmen taking a stand against rangers knew fine well what was happening….
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 28 June, 2012 at 11:47 said:
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Goram would give McLaren a run for his money in the bloated dept.
Sneaky wee payment of £1million to Newco from the SPL as well.
Check the small print bhoys..,
Big Nan
I need convincing !!!
Hail Hail
ASonofDan
They seem to have gone to outrageous lengths to accommodate their brothers
Sickening
The Clubs in the SPL & SFL MUST vote NO again,to this hun carve up.Doncaster,Regan and Co not fit for purpose.Resign Celtic,give them their 2 years notice.
Oh look! President of the SFL, Jim Ballantyne, chairman of Airdrie. Last seen at the Linfield v Rangers match with his fighting fund rosette
Read the statement on what Rangers need to “accept” as well.
Nothing about the dual contract investigation.
Nothing about the SPL Appellate board.
This stinks to high, high heaven. It is an unparalleled scandal.
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby
Totally agree with you re Sandy Jardine. He has made such an idiot of himself with his comments today, trying to appease the uneducated newco masses with a populist statement. He is hurting big time and totally in denial that EVERY game and trophy he won with oldco are ALREADY consigned to history, never to be added to.
For SJ to say
“It’s a lot of nonsense that our history does not carry on. There are a lot of other fans out there saying that we are a new club but that’s not the case. We never worried about what other supporters said in the past and we shouldn’t worry about what other supporters say now. What matters is what Rangers supporters think.”
So Sandy, what matter is what Rangers supporters think? Well Sandy if you keep telling your own support lies that’s what they will believe! Stop lying, come out of denial, and get it right up ye!
Lovin it!
HH
CTTC
interesting snippet from the BBC piece:
“It is understood Rangers chief executive Green has been “briefed” by Hibernian chairman Rod Petrie on the plans to gain their approval.”
Seems the Gang of Ten aren’t so big on sporting integrity…..
Is this info that “the BBC has learned” any different from what was circulating last week?
ernie lynch – I think Cabaret must have been written by a closet national socialist.
After all the flouncing and drama queen antics of the Kit Kat Klub regulars I sympathised with the poor Germans.
Similarly, Jesus Christ: Superstar made me root for the Romans, they just wanted the singing to stop. (thumbsup)
DBBIA @ 11:31
Who sent who over the edge though?
Mixed reaction for Bomber Browns speech
on the step of ole Ipox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo
The BBC has learned that HMRC will do a deal with rangers on a CVA.
The BBC has learned that Craig Whyte will front load a warchest of 15 million for fatboy.
The BBC has learned that Charles Green has assurances of an SFA license…
@TonyMcKelvie: The £1M SFL payment will come out of a redistribution of SPL revenues. In essence, it is proposed that Celtic pays SFL £1M to take Sevco in.
Allowing for the fact that many of us have differing political views,was there ever a better time to be a Celtic supporter?
Put those differences behind us.
Unite to support our beloved Celtic.
This is a time for magnanimity
Be openhearted to our fellow Scottish supporters.
Create a competition we can all support ,without the acrimony of religious and racial bigotry.
We Tims, as leaders,must now take the lead.
“There comes a tide in the affairs of man which,taken at the flood ,leads on to fortune.”
Gaun yersels,Jimmy and Paddy.
So according to BBC Scotland, there are plans to relegate “Rangers” with immediate effect and replaced in the SPL by Dundee.
AND
There will be an increase in the parachute payments made to clubs relegated from the SPL.
Awe Naw ——-
I read that post . Never having met the man — i could not / would not dispute your assessment . I take people as I find them ..
Spill ——?
Google the man’s business history . Google the history of one of his business partners . Google that man’s connections . Google those connections . Not people I would want to be sharing space with.
There are 4 First Division clubs who will vote against rangers joining. They can plan all they want but none of the fans of other clubs want them.
They are a dead parrot. Someone just needs to point it out to Dungcaster and Regan…
VP-My 2-1 to Germany will overcome both you and Kittoch’s 2-0.:}
Look..I understand that BB’s heart is in the right place…..for the orcs. But did you hear his rhetoric/incoherent ramblings/tone ? He was threatening/inciting……not to dwell on the pun,but yeah,’blue’ murder.
Now,even I feel like adopting his verbal manglings…no script writer could match his linguistic contortions. Some of it made no sense, and perfect sense, simultaneously.
Astounding, but sinister. And as for his true colours? Well,you just have to think of that hackneyed cliché, “Some of my best friends are……” It’s the get-out clause for all bigots etc.,.
“All changes have to be approved by SPL and SFL clubs over the next few days. The plans require the support of eight SPL clubs and a majority of SFL clubs to be passed.”
I somehow doubt the fans of the SPL clubs who have been villified, abused and threatened by the hun hordes since forcing their chairmen to say “no to newco” will be any more open to the newco in the ‘first division’.
Can’t see this being passed by the required number of clubs, but, stranger things have happened / have yet to happen.
The longer this goes on the more C1sts analogy of the abusive marriage becomes apposite.
starry plough on 28 June, 2012 at 11:56 said:
Thank you for the voice of reason.
£1m+ payment to Newco… if, as seems to be the tone of the proposal, their demise is redefined as a mere relegation. Scandal. Proposal is compromised from the beginning if a ‘club’ can start in the second-top tier of the pyramid.
The BBC are regurgitating an old story
The SFL clubs are going to kill this plan stone dead. For a start, the SFL clubs are not voting next week. They are meeting to discuss the proposals
There won’t even be a NewCo playing football next season anyway
So how on earth are they going to gerrymander Sevco into Div 1?
No mechanism exists to relegate the dead carcass and allow Sevco to possess it.
No mechanism or rule exists to allow a brand new club direct access to Tier 2 of Scottish football.
How are they going to dress this up?
Perhaps those calling for Celtic to make a statement on no to newco as the other clubs did were premature (me included).
If the chairmen of the SPL clubs knew full well that a sinister rescue package was being hatched by Doncaster and Regan (with Ogilvie’s hand no doubt involved) then it became easier to line up and say no to newco as they’d been given guarantees.
The 1M going to them or to the SFL to be shared around?
3 teams in division 1 to contest play-offs just in case newco are dreadful and with the lack of players around to play for them they just might be – craven gerrymandering to ensure they get up by hook or by crook.
All is not lost. The SFL clubs can stop this dead and Livingston alone should be priming their lawyers.
The battle was over but the war goes on.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 28 June, 2012 at 11:30 said:
I can understand what you say as I spent a few years playing in the same team as Andy Goram whilst in England.
At that time Andy did not have a clue about anything Scottish or anywhere else and was a good laugh and decent person in my eye.
Only after he ended up at Ibrox did I see a change in him which just proves that deep down they are teaching the new recruits to behave in such a way, because believe me Andy Goram knew nothing about Ireland prior to his stay at them.
When I see him now I feel sorry for him as he was never going win any prizes for being the smartest but he has crossed the line but I believe through others teaching him their rotten ways.
Hopefully now that is a thing of the past.
Once a Celt…..always a Celt.
Hold on,did this guff come from Chris McLaughlin? Last seen with a kennelful of pups ,sold to him by hun “sources”.
I have supported Celtic’s silence to date.
If they think this will be voted through, then, unless the club publicly state otherwise, they must be in agreement with the proposal.
Either way, if this plan goes ahead, this should lead to a fan revolt demanding our planned resignation from the land of the hun.
HH
starry plough@11:56
Nail on head
Yet more rubbish from the BBC
James Forrest
If this proposal does indeed go though, what do you propose Celtic to do?
HH
Lads check my post at 11:47 from fritzagrandold if any of you are in doubt.
If they rush through reconstruction now, it might all be in vain. There may not be a newclub, the ‘vacancy’ created will have to be filled and when the dark forces eventually regroup there will be no space for them without yet another reconstruction.
If they bide their time and plan this for next year, they can accommodate a new Rangers, if one exists, while at the same time pretending that there is some integrity in the scottish game.