By Sportingintelligence 2 March 2012 The statement below has just been issued (5.50pm) by Duff & Phelps, administrators for Rangers, confirming job cut decisions have been postponed until after the weekend. Duff & Phelps also confirm here legal action being taken to freeze monies in various accounts while taking other action to rescue the club. […]
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Rangers administrator’s search for missing cash key to minimising job losses
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 February 2012 RANGERS’ administrators are in a race against time to trace multiple secret six-figure payments made by the Craig Whyte regime to associates and related parties during his time at Ibrox, Sportingintelligence can reveal, and the success or otherwise of that task will […]
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IN FULL: Craig Whyte statement on Rangers – ‘I’ll gift majority of shares to fans if I survive’
By Sportingintelligence 21 February 2012 Craig Whyte, the beleagured former owner of Rangers, has today issued the statement below, published in full, admitting he repaid the Lloyds bank loan at the heart of his takeover with cash leveraged against future ticket sales. The wide-ranging statement, published here verbatim, also claims that Whyte wants to gift […]
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Revealed: Whyte and Ticketus meet Rangers administrators, confirm source of funds
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 February 2012 Craig Whyte, the absent former owner of Rangers whose takeover and nine-month period of control at Ibrox is currently under investigation, broke cover to hold a meeting with administrators Duff & Phelps at their London offices in Portman Square (below) yesterday, Sportingintelligence […]
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RANGERS: Whyte ‘ignored settlement advice’, chances of regaining control recede
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 19 February 2012 Craig Whyte, the controversial businessman at the heart of the crisis enveloping Rangers, ignored advice given to him last May about how he could settle some of the club’s disputes with HMRC, Sportingintelligence can reveal. Rather than follow a plan which might […]
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RANGERS CRISIS: Mystery deepens over Whyte links to former jailbird associate
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 February 2012 Two business associates of the beleagured Rangers owner Craig Whyte have spoken about their links to Whyte, but have raised more questions than answers in the process, particularly in relation to the role one of them has played in the Rangers takeover […]
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Football titles world league: Rangers top, but who is most dominant?
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 February 2012 Rangers, giants of Scottish football for almost as long as the game has been played there, have entered financial administration as a result of an outstanding tax case. A much-quoted statistic over the past 24 hours is that Rangers have won more […]
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First same-day Celtic and Rangers defeats to capital rivals in 38 years: 2,625-1
By Nick Harris 11 November 2010 Celtic and Rangers both losing SPL matches on the same day, as they did last night to Hearts at Hibs respectively, is a rare enough occurrence, but for both of them to lose to Edinburgh teams on the same day happens less than once in a generation. Celtic lost […]
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Champions League draw: Man Utd meet Rangers, plus the fates of Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham
By Pete Wilson 26 August 2010 The Champions League draw for the group stage has taken place in Switzerland, and not for first time Manchester United find themselves in a ‘Battle of Britain’ group with Rangers. In the 2003-04 season, United won 3-0 and 1-0 at this stage, but went only as far as losing […]
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Kris Boyd warned that move from Rangers to Celtic would mean ‘life is over’
By Pete Wilson 25 May 2010 It would be the most sensational football transfer of the summer, certainly in Scotland and possibly in Europe, but the Scottish Sun claims today that Celtic are preparing to offer the mercurial Rangers and Scotland striker Kris Boyd a £1m signing-on fee plus £30,000 a week to cross the […]
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