The Daily Record and The Sun have both decided to publicise quotes from Craig Whyte’s book ‘Into The Bear Pit’ following the decision by The Herald to publish selected quotes ahead of next week’s publication.
By far the stand out line from what has been released is the claim that ‘Rangers cheated for years under David Murray’ in reference to the illegal tax schemes used to entice players that they wouldn’t normally be able to afford.
The Sun picked on that quote to lead their coverage but the Record decided to avoid any mention of cheating or the man that picked up £1 from selling the club in May 2011.
Murray enjoyed an exceptionally close relationship with the Record, in 1998 James Traynor joined the businessman at his holiday home in Jersey to celebrate a decade in charge of the club with the phrase succulent lamb first being published in relation to Murray.
Whyte’s book promises to give the inside story on the downfall of the club from Champions League qualifiers in July 2011 to going into liquidation on June 2012.
The former billionaire inherited a contract for rookie boss Ally McCoist that would have cost £1m to break. That deal effectively left Whyte hand-cuffed to the Question of Sport funny-man.
When liquidation was announced McCoist vowed not to walk away and quickly agreed to TUPE over his deal to the new club formed by Charles Green.
In December 2014 after being drawn against Celtic in the semi-final of the League Cup McCoist announced that he was going on gardening leave for 12 months.
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