Keith Jackson has launched another attack on the Ibrox board, wrapped up around his hopes that Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side can see off Braga on Thursday night.Â
Since revealing that Dave King had offered a loan to cover the £3m on offer for playing in the Sydney Super Cup the Daily Record reporter has been increasingly hostile to the men in the Blue Room.Â
After protests at matches from fans the club announced that they were pulling out of Ange’s Homecoming Tour but that embarrassment was quickly replaced by the Old Firm makeover for the visit and defeat from Celtic.Â
Pitchside advertising and a cardboard archway all looked small-time and while supporters initially lapped it up they quickly turned it round to attack the Ibrox hierarchy.Â
Picking up on those themes with nothing to add to them, Jackson tells Daily Record readers:Â
And that’s why Rangers were guilty of repulsing their own fans by producing ‘Old Firm’ flags and building a special centrepiece for the mouth of their own tunnel for Celtic’s players to run out of ahead of last Sunday’s derby.Â
The whole thing was so horribly misjudged and spectacularly botched that it made Rangers look like a needy ex-boyfriend.Â
But if they are turning their own fans against them, is it any wonder that those who exist way outside of this bubble are also shaking their heads in dismay?Â
As a matter of fact, it’s becoming more and more difficult for the broad collective to keep a sense of balance and perspective where Rangers are concerned given that the men in charge seem so determined to isolate themselves from the rest and pick fights for no obvious reason.Â
From threatening to torpedo a £9m league sponsorship deal with cinch and hitting 41 other SPFL clubs in the pocket on their own doorstep to facing a potential £5m lawsuit for breaching a contract on the other side of the planet, they are causing serious damage to their own reputation.Â
By sanctioning this ‘no-one-likes-us-we-don’t-care’ approach to going about their business, invisible chairman Douglas Park and his increasingly beleaguered board have turned their club into some sort of pariah.Â
Their snarling faced diplomacy has turned Rangers into the paranoid schizophrenic of Scottish football, seemingly convinced that the world is out to get them.Â
It’s an unwanted, unhelpful legacy of what the club has come through over the last decade or so. Perhaps understandably, Rangers have been riddled with trust issues ever since they were turned over and taken to the brink.Â
Unlike the Daily Mail and Times, the Daily Record won’t be invited into van Bronckhorst’s zoom call to preview Thursday’s match against Braga. Â
Taken to the brink ?. Does he not read his own paper 140 years of history ended they printed. Scotlands gutless media shame.
Lol at the part the daily sevco may not be allowed into the presser on Thursday,they don’t need to be invited in Jackass Jackson the BOOZE jockey is still picking up a retainer fee from King the CHISLER for calling out the ibrox board,and washing all their dirty clothes in public.
KERCHING job done for Mr King and a few sheckles for the BOOZE jockey for a kerryoot.
Turned over and taken to the brink?
They actually believe their own lies.
Clown shoes the lot of them.
‘taken to the brink’ where the fans jumped in and saved them. All history and traditions preserved. Phew, that was close.
Really should not be using labels such as paranoid schizophrenic in this context. It is a serious medical condition.
Remember Joe after last season their director came out and said publicly that there were going to be repercussions on & off the park for what others did to *the Raijurs. They’re a disposable lot indeed.
Maybe you will know or find out, but what happens with the Cinch payout? I remember that it was all going to get sorted and a decision would be made in a couple of months and that both parties agreed to honour the ruling. I’ve never heard anything since, and it seems to be going on longer than Patterson discipline panel last season when he was covering for Tavenier.
Would be good if you could dig into this and write a piece on it. It would be outrageous if they were to get a single penny of this sponsorship money, but as we all know too well, this is something the SPFL exceed in doing on every occasion. Let’s put that out to a vote among the other 41 law abiding clubs…
HAIL HAIL
KEEP THE FAITH??
They took themselves to the brink!! And died ! And their vile hoardes stood back and did nothing!! Wiorld wide support my arse! Nothing like Celtic a real Gllobal one then again we are the club and a great one at that born out of charity ,unity and love! Having lived overseas I knew plenty orcs that ditch the oldco at glasgow airport! You see they know they wont be allowed their bile in any other country unlike brigadoon Scotland! AndIn an age of internet banking where we would raised 100s of millions maybe even more! They did nothing!! So save us the bs shit jackson ! The ripped of business small ones at that and stole millions from us the tax payers! There should be no club in the hellhole breeding ground of hate as it’s a perma rage, vike breeding ground of hate and shame on scotkand for allowing newco to get fast tracked as a new club they have blood on their hands literally! As that ground fosters hatred and intolerable