Tore Andre Flor has thrown his hat into the ring to succeed Phil Clement as manager at Ibrox.
The flow of good news stories from the Daily Record is non-stop as they remind their army of readers of when their old club could spent £12m on a striker than couldn’t get a regular game in the EPL.
Dave Murray was determined to spend £10m of the Bank of Scotland’s money to prove that he was on course to bring the European Cup back to Glasgow.
Decent strikers weren’t interested in a football backwater and scams of disguised remuneration but Chelsea and Flo were game for a laugh with a £12m deal agreed while Celtic had a double digit lead in the SPL.
During the summer of 2000 Dick Advocaat flexed the overdraft by signing Bert Konterman, Fernando Ricksen, Kenny Miller, Allan Johnston, when they bombed Ronald de Boer arrived followed by Flo.
It was the height of stupidity, setting the club on a collision course with HMRC that eventually led to administration and liquidation but it felt good at the time while Celtic were changing the course of Scottish football history.
Digging very deep for good news the Record reports:
Norwegian striker Flo made shockwaves in the year 2000 when he arrived at Rangers in a £12m deal from Chelsea and he scored 38 goals in 72 games before returning to the Premier League with Sunderland.
He also helped generate the wee tax case after a contract was registered at the SPL and SFA lower than his Chelsea earnings, lower than Chris Sutton’s Celtic deal having joined four months earlier from the same club.
But he arrived just as the tide turned in Celtic’s favour, and while he won the League Cup and Scottish Cup, never got his hands on a league title in Scotland.
He played in a side captained by a certain Barry Ferguson, the man now tasked with turning the current struggles at Ibrox around. And when asked if he’d fancy replacing him this summer, Flo, whose only managerial experience so far is in the Norwegian lower leagues with Sogdal, told goldenpanda.com: “Me? Yes, I would love to take the Rangers job, but I think that’s out of the question for me at the moment. One day, why not? I would absolutely love the opportunity to manage that giant football club.
“Barry Ferguson… He is a manager that understands the pressure of Rangers, and I think that’s a really important trait for the manager to have.
When you have to search Golden Panda for upbeat Ibrox news the well of moonbeams is truly running dry.
He was an integral part of the biggest sporting scandal in British sporting history…which has been air- brushed out . Only in Scotland Brother.
Fir fuck sake a thought granny Smith was bad when they went to him for an interview and the feelgood factor but Flo is definitely COMEDY GOLD.
Tinky Winky to return?
All they need is Dipsy La La and Po to complete the set.
Peeing masel !!!
He had brown brogues of dignity on all right… with studs in the bottom…
They were brown because the guy wearing them was shite –
I suppose the fact that his name was Tory would go down well at Liebrox no doubt !