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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Gretna Football Club was founded in 1946. Their finest moment came when they reached the 2006 Scottish Cup Final (where they only just lost out to Hearts on penalties). Their success was largely thanks to the support of their financial backer Brooks Mileson, with his aid the club was promoted from the Third Division to the Scottish Premier League in the space of five years.
However, the club found itself in serious financial difficulties when Mileson became ill and withdrew funding. After being relegated to the Third Division, Gretna struggled to find another backer and went into liquidation in August 2008.
A new club, Gretna 2008, was established by the supporter’s trust while Gretna FC was dissolving. Despite having the same fanbase, the clubs have no legal connection
Founded in 1887, Leith Athletic FC was disbanded four times during its lifetime, finally going out of business for good in 1955. In the years since its creation, Leith Athletic managed to play in all three divisions as well as spending time playing in the Scottish Alliance. They had a name-change to Leith FC in 1905 when a new company took over their assets, but when the team reconvened from its closure during the First World War its old name was restored.
After the Scottish Third Division was closed down, Leith Athletic were relegated to the new Division C, which was made largely from reserve teams. Leith Athletic campaigned vigorously for non-reserve teams to be moved up to the Second Division, but were denied and thrown out of Division C in 1953. Too late to join another competition, Leith Athletic went out of business in 1955. They name was adopted by an amateur side which plays in the East of Scotland Football League
Formed in 1872, Third Lanark AC lasted 95 years until its demise in 1967. Nicknamed the Hi Hi from the 1890s (when it was rumoured that a defender kicked the ball so high it soared out the stadium), fans would chant “Hi Hi Hi!” as a battle cry to try and rouse their team to victory in matches.
Third Lanark had many successes in the early years of Scottish Football and their demise was something of a shock. The team went out of business just six years after they finished in third place in Scotland’s First Division in 1961, with only Rangers and Kilmarnock ahead of them. The 1965 season was their worst ever, with three wins from 34 matches, leading to relegation and, shortly afterwards, to bankruptcy.
Nicknamed “The Diamonds”, Airdrie FC folded in 2002 after 124 years in existence. It was the first Scottish team to meet this end since Third Lanark in 1967. During its lifetime, the club played in four Scottish Cup finals, managing to win in 1924.
The club reached its highest success in the 1990s with Alex MacDonald as manager. Under his leadership, they became one of the top clubs in the First Division, even spending a couple of seasons playing in the Premier Division.
It was when the Airdrieonians relocated that things began to go wrong for them. A move to the new Excelsior Stadium caused a drop in funds and in the standard of football, which in turn lead to low turn-out at matches. After the sudden death of the club’s only remaining director, Joey Rowan, Airdrie FC ended up in liquidation.
Created in 1973 when Ferranti Thistle FC was admitted to the Scottish Football League and needed a name-change, Meadowbank Thistle was chosen after a campaign in the Edinburgh Evening News, and approved by the Scottish Football League just in time to let them play the season.
Until 1995, Meadowbank Thistle spent their time moving between the Second and First Division, never quite managing to gain access to the top flight. The club began to struggle both in its football and its finances and found itself relegated to the newly created Division Three in 1995.
Chairman Bill Hunter decided to take action. Ignoring the objections of many fans, the club was revamped and moved to a new stadium in Livingston. Once again a name change was forced upon it and Meadowbank Thistle disappeared becoming Livingston Thistle FC
A team named Clydebank FC still exists today, but it is not the same team as the original. In fact, the name Clydebank FC has represented six teams since it was first used in 1888, five of them now defunct.
The Clydebank FC that lasted from 1965–2002 is the most notable, though it is the second club of its name to play in the Scottish Football League. This team spent three seasons playing in the Premier Division and were sponsored by pop group Wet Wet Wet in the 1990s. However, the club fell into trouble after its stadium was sold in 1996. The club had to play home games at different stadiums and support began to decline. The club was sold and almost moved to Dublin, but instead fell into liquidation in 2002.
Today’s Clydesdale FC was created in 2003 and shares the same fanbase as its predecessor – but, as with Gretna FC and Gretna 2008, they share no connection in a legal sense.
Rangers Football Club.
I am sure there is someone here who could write a fitting epitaph for them.
Green, White and now Brown!
Damn you Brown, I had my money on Lex Gold! :-)
the league structure (4 x old firm games per season) is formulated to get most money out of television, the consequence of which is a monopoly due to the number of times other teams need to play celtic and rangers as well, which explains the massive gap every season.
evening times is right, the spl will be a one horse race as it currently stands and if it remains as it is it will be boring and fans may well turn away, but with no rangers an opportunity to change the current model is there for the taking and should once and forall put football competition before television money
problem with current spl is its too small, it offers one team success (winner) and 11 losers, the spl split is a financial reward that cannot be celebrated by the fans. success is relative and as such a league structure, at its core, must offer all its participants the chance to succeed, but with an element of unpredictability.
we need a bigger league maybe 16 team ( 1x home, 1 x away per season)
we need a different points system to promote attacking football
a much fairer share of income generated from all shared sponsorship and television money.
play-off and higher levels of promotion relagation is a must
play-offs for one euro position
a regionalised league cup, beginning with a mini league, may be a way to futher enhance television income (so celtic can play newco) without damaging the competition in the spl league.
thoughts?
Green , Whyte & Brown
Quite appropriate as their horde must, at last, see that the sh@t has hit the fan
STEPHBHOY
You reckon the SPL is too small-1 winner and eleven losers-so enlarging it will mean 1 winner and say 15 or 17 losers?
OK.
..but given the rise in impotent seething frustration amongst the ole Billies of the Hill, how long can it be before the fan hits the sh1t?
I think the huns that are walking away are aware, that if a club has to pay a transfer fee for them, they might end up not getting away.
I don’t think pea brain sandy has factored this possibility into the equation.
Do you think he will know what equation means?
Naw, neither dae a’!
FUD!
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 27 June, 2012 at 14:08 said:
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2012 TEXT SIZE Fans stage Ibrox protest
DOZENS of Rangers’ fans are expected to stage a protest outside Ibrox Stadium to demand answers about the future of the club tonight.
Dozens are expected. Dozens.
An Fear Dearg on 27 June, 2012 at 14:48 said:
And someone mentioned Sevco 5088′s banking arrangements (or lack thereof) earlier, as well as exhorting them to pay their taxes, however novel a concept that might seem to their followers. That got me thinking – would they have had to have paid a bond to HMRC in respect of PAYE/NIC and VAT before commencing trading? And if so has it been paid? And who is accounting for the VAT on all this season book income they’ve received in the last couple of weeks…?
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I would assume that as Sevco 5088 are not a football club it cannot sell ST’s. It will be D&P as RFC(IL) that is holding the ST money if any at present. They will not get any income until they have actually ‘sold’ something because as yet they have no football games for anyone to pay for so no VAT liability yet.
As Sevco 5088 is a different company from RFC(IL) and none of its directors were previously associated with the previous defaulting company. As such it has no record of non payment of NIC/PAYE so the revenue would have no reason to seek a bond.
SPARKLEGHIRL 1504
Give them a break.
Any more than a few dozen would be a Mass protest,and they cannae have that!
‘OUR club is in danger of getting erased, we are NOT a football team at this moment in time.’
The penny begins to drop amongst the RM inmates…
HH
stephbhoy
Thoughts? You don’t go to the games do you?
Maybe we could have everyone getting 3 points for a win and Celtic only getting 1.
Oh! How about every other team get a 2 goal start.
Wait! We have to play without a goalkeeper.
Art of War on 27 June, 2012 at 14:54 said:
Green, White and now Brown!
Cause & effect!
ASONOFDAN 1507
We did that for most of 02/03.
Didnae work oot too well.
With the John Brown Consortium bringing all their intellectual firepower to bear on rescuing the ole Horribles, fingers and toes crossed nothing goes wrong with the ole Large Hadron Collider in the next few weeeks.
Someone should gently tell him his partner is dead…
Remember Bear we were Born NOT manufactured and we did not choose but were chosen and many of us should remember that. Being a Rangers fan is not like a marriage where you promise to look after each other in sickness and in health, but when things go wrong or get tough you can get a divorce.
NO being a Rangers fan is a lifelong commitment and there is NO OPTION of divorce, make NO mistake OUR club is in sickness at this moment in time and needs our support NOW probably more than it has ever done in probably ALL of our lifetimes. Don’t get me wrong our haters will be loving this BUT now is the time to STAND together
Bummer Brown quote:
“I was called to a meeting with Charles Green on Friday afternoon and he said a few things that alarmed me, I’m not going to go public with that just now.”
Hmm.
Now what could possibly alarm him enough to take a wee drink and run away with his clipboard?
DBBIA,
Belated congratulations to Mhairi and to her sponsors and mentors.
Aipple on 27 June, 2012 at 15:13 said:
Maybe Green said something honest like “With no money and a signing ban I’m not sure we’ll be needing a scout any more.”
03:15
Surely time for someone to walk away…
The dozens now down to Billy, Billy Junior and his dug ‘Gattuso’
Booooo!!!!! No Surrender!!!
The Bomber interview is real?
This isn’t an ‘only an excuse’ preview.
Dammit, I better watch it again without laughing
At least one hun is starting to get it..
From RM (Thoughts on John Brown Interview)
Christ listen to you all.
See what your saying when Green puts the Padlocks on the doors.
Wake up……..
Signings?
“It’s difficult to do but we will try and get players in early because we only have a four-week window to prepare for these games,” Lenny (6th May).
If brown changes his name to Tonto, he would be a scout.
Brown on talksport what an embarresment,totally incoherent
CELTIC will kick off their pre-season preparations with a training camp in Germany and three games against German opposition, including Bundesliga side, FC Augsburg.
It’s the start of an exciting pre-season for the Scottish champions, who will also face matches against the Dutch champions, Ajax, and the Spanish champions, Real Madrid, in July and August.
The first friendly match for Neil Lennon’s title-winning side will be against FC Augsburg on Tuesday, July 10 at the Stauferpark-Stadion, Donauworth.
Five days later, on Sunday, July 15, the Hoops will play Stuttgart Kickers at the Grazi Stadion. And then, on Tuesday, July 17, the Scottish Champions will play Vfr Aalen at the Scholtz Arena. Kick-off times for the three games in Germany to be confirmed and ticket details to follow.
Celtic have already lined up an exciting pre-season friendly against Dutch champions Ajax at the Amsterdam ArenA on Saturday, July 21
On Tuesday, July 24, the Hoops will return to Paradise when they play host to Norwich City.
And then on August 11, Celtic will travel to Philadelphia for a high-profile match with the reigning Spanish champions, Real Madrid, who have the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso and Mesut Ozil in the ranks, three world-class players who are all in action this week in the semi-finals of Euro 2012.
The Hoops will face a UEFA Champions League qualifier at the end of July, while the SPL season kicks off on August 4 when the champions play host to Aberdeen on a day when the league flag will be raised over Paradise.
I was speaking with a pal yesterday, an arab (utd fan) who’s a sociology lecturer, he tells me he’s gonna be writing a thesis on the social consequences in Ayrshire,Lanark and west central Scotland on the death of the ranjurs. He also told me he’d been having a wee peek at some of their websites and lo and behold there they were, the scarf burners from the late 80s telling all and sundry, “i told you so, the minute we signed that Mojo, Judas to us, we knew it was the beginning of the end.” He reckons there’s only five to ten thousand actual members of the OO in Scotland at present, if true it seems to carry a helluva weight for such a relatively small section of the population, hopefully their bluff gets called next.
When he gets round to it i’ll post it up.
HH
Apparently this was voted on by the same guys who voted Keef Jackshun Sports Football writer of the year.
Duff n Fuds voted ‘UK Corporate Restructuring Advisor’ of the year
Coco the clown has fingers in many custard pies.
MWD
If brown changes his name to Tonto………….
Ehhhhhhhhh like John Tonto
Murdochauldandhay….
….but the hun hordes probably see him as some kind of saviour!
Plus, they probably understood what he said. That does make a difference.
FUDS!
John Brown on Talksport…Go Bomber Go…!
Lmfao!!
Bumbler Brown.
Just when ye thought it coudnae get any funnier.
pigalle
He sounds as if he has imbibing in more than a few today ,talksport cut him off have had enough of his drunken ramblings LOL
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar.
It was a magazines readership that voted. Hellish putting in all those votes so it was…
Bomber on Talksport , is it just me but is he pished? H&J glad to get rid.
Just to add
No form/ mode/ variety/version/ flavour of him will play professional football in Scotland next season.
Simple
Well, whatever we might say about Brown, at least he’s trying to do something. Even if it’s probably way too late. All the other ex-players & managers appear either not to care very much or to be too scared of possible EBT investigations to put their heads above the parapet.
Playing for the stadium is sooooooo much better than playing for the jersey.
It’s the Rangers way, dontcha know.
pigalle
TimJIm,
We take our nieces on the Disney Cruise line
(ages 7 & 13). All you need is letter signed by parents
To say they know you are taking kids out of the country
No need for solicitor!
Hail Hail
HT