Green launches moonbeam marathon- including Celtic
With Ibrox half full and the club reporting losses of £1m/month Green used his favourite diversion tactic of taking his story to a gullible unquestioning English audience.
As ever Celtic were brought in to justify most of his comments as the Third Division chief continues in his bid to destroy Scottish football.
In July the Scottish football authorities bent over backwards to accommodate Sevco- re-writing the licence regulations to do so- but have been undermined at every turn by the ungrateful associate members of the SFA and SFL.
Green appears untouchable to the SFA as they attempt to reconstruct the leagues. It’s hard to imagine that the chief executive of Annan or Elgin would get away with constantly running down the SFA without punishment.
Today’s moonbeams started with the traditional mention of Celtic saying: “Whether it is next week, because the English authorities change their mind, or in five to 10 years, Rangers and Celtic will leave Scotland.
“I would like to think within five years. I say to English clubs: Don’t be afraid of the unknown. There will be cross-border leagues and that will change the face of European football. These doors are opening.”
Continuing in that theme he added: “Why would football clubs or football authorities not want Rangers and Celtic? If they say: ‘It wouldn’t add anything into the game’, they are lying.
“I watched Southampton play Wigan. The stadium wasn’t full – there were empty seats. Now there is no way on God’s earth that any team that Rangers play will have empty seats.
“That is what football wants – to bring the money in. Not just to keep banging Rupert Murdoch’s door and say we want some more money.
“When you say the English FA and Football League don’t want us, when you look at some of these clubs, Portsmouth have gone bust three times in four years. Two English clubs have come to me and said: ‘Buy us and close us down. Take us for free and take on the liabilities’.
Green was forced into an apology to Aston Villa in October and got a quick slap from Manchester United when he suggested that they wanted Sevco in the Premiership during an interview where he also claimed that Barcelona and Real Madrid would welcome the team from Govan into La Liga.
Unchallenged Green added: “I have spoken to a number of chief executives from Premier League clubs – and all of them would welcome Rangers. Of the people I have spoken to directly, or people on my behalf have spoken to, throughout the leagues – 20 – only two have said no.”
Revving up through the gears Green then claimed that he’d turn down an invite to the Premiership in favour of the Conference with Celtic once again included in the deluded package.
“Could you imagine the income generation Rangers and Celtic would create in the Conference?” he speculated. “Every Conference stadium would be full. And then to work through the leagues over the next three or four years would refresh English football because this staleness that is affecting Scottish football is prevalent ‘ere.”
Going off at a tangent he recalled his own playing days as the Theo Walcott of the northern non-league circuit claiming: “If I had gone full-time I would have been £60 a week worse off. I was a fantastic goal scorer. I wasn’t like Messi but there was no-one in England who could catch me. I was so quick.”
Finishing with a flourish and against a backdrop of a share price in freefall the Ibrox chief claimed: “If we look at values in England, Manchester United – the world’s biggest sporting franchise –, is valued at £3bn, Arsenal at £1.5bn.
“Rangers in the Premier League would be worth a minimum of £500m and arguably why not £1bn. Where would we sell? Why would we sell?”
On Saturday Green will take Rangers to Montrose as he continues his great adventure making new friends throughout Scottish football.
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