Donald Findlay has broken ranks to spell out the truth about the club currently playing at Ibrox.
While the Scottish football authorities, the BBC and other media outlets mention financial mentdown, financial crisis and demotion to cover the 2012 LIQUIDATION of club that refused to pay it’s creditors including Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, public bodies such as Strathclyde Police and the ambulance service and over 200 other creditors, Cowdebeath chairman Findlay has spoken out about the truths surrounding the club that visits Central Park, Cowdenbeath on Tuesday.
During the pomp of David Murray’s regime through the nineties Findlay was the man of the people, a guid bluenoe, a bear that kept the fans inline as he played on the history and traditions of the club and put the boot into Celtic at every opportunity.
Away from football he was a high profile QC in his element defending Jason Campbell who slashed the throat of teenager Mark Scott as he walked towards the city centre through Bridgeton after a Celtic v Partick Thistle match.
In 1999 Findlay resigned as vice-chairman of Rangers after the Daily Record printed pictures of him joining Neil McCann, Lorenzo Amoruso and others singing sectarian songs at a supporters function following the Scottish Cup Final win over Celtic.
Despite that background Findlay’s views on the club that visit Cowdeneath are clear cut and drive a wedge through the myths about Charles Green buying the history and tales that a club exists in isolation from it’s debt ridden and liquidated company.
“It is a different club,” he told the Daily Mail. “They may play at Ibrox and they may play sometimes in royal blue jerseys but you cannot pass on that which is undefinable. And that is spirit and tradition and all the rest of it.
“To me this is a new Rangers which has to establish its own history and tradition but it’s not the Rangers I know. To me, genuinely, it is a new entity.”
Warming to the theme in the same manner as the official programme of Livingson did recently Findlay added: “You can buy assets but you can’t buy history. You can’t buy tradition. History and tradition are in the heart and in the mind. You can’t buy that. I don’t care what anyone says.
“You cannot buy Ibrox, you cannot buy the Blue Room, you cannot buy the trophy room without actually understanding what it means.”
It’s unclear whether the Ibrox club will report Findlay to the SFA for his comments, during the summer Dundee United paid a two year development fee for Charlie Telfer who has been at Murray Park for six years.
CLICK HERE for Daily Mail interview in full