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Has outsourcing caused the fall of Rangers?
“Lets all laugh at Rangers, lets all laugh at Rangers, ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha.”
A chant that has been heard at many football stadiums around Scotland as fans of all different teams take great delight in things not going the way of Glasgow Rangers on the field of play. Even national pride is put to one side when they are demolished in Europe and this season, with 4-1 home defeats against Sevilla and lowly Unirea from Romania, has given plenty to cheer about for those who do not like the Royal Blues.
However, there now appears to be an even bigger reason for non followers to have a riotous laugh at the Teddy Bears as their financial crisis gets darker and darker with each passing day. There may be an emerging twitter trend of skin rangers spreading around the world but the worst case scenario is unlikely to happen.
The set of fans who used to wave money at other clubs as they bossed and bullied around the 1990s now look as though they could be going bust in the 2000s although no one seriously expects a Scottish institution to go to the wall. An institution is what their loyal fans consider Rangers to be but no doubt many other people consider the institution which housed two of the clubs founders to be a bit closer to the mark.
The hope for Rangers surviving lies with Dave King and if he can take over from David Murray? Murray earned himself the nickname Dodgy Dave due to many issues, notably the amount of outsourcing jobs he took away from Ibrox, but King is Dodgier Dave. Where his money will come from, no one knows as it is currently frozen in South Africa whilst King faces over three hundred charges of fraud. You would think King has more on his mind than the future of the team he walked from Castlemilk from Govan every second Saturday to see but it just shows the passion felt by fans of the club.
Sure they have traditions like having a sectarian signing policy for most of the 20th Century, fans who riot at the flicker of a TV screen and an arrogance that knows no ends but there is good about the club too, which is why they deserve to be saved. The clubs generosity to serving members of the Armed Forces is limitless, shown by the tickets given away recently for a Champions League game match against the champions of Romania and all the way back to the time when two Canadian soldiers were greeted warmly by the clubs then manager before they went back to fighting during the War.
However, it is not so straightforward and Lloyds, the bank who now holds the purse strings, knows this. Any prospective buyer will see that cash streams, vital to so many clubs such as food stalls, merchandising, ticket offices and much more have been outsourced away from the football club. They were outsourced to companies which appear to have a strong link to David Murray, the outgoing chairman who the media will never blame for the fall of the Empire but questions need to be asked by someone.
