Friday, 15 June 2012
RANGERS AND WALTER SMITH NOW SURE TO TRIUMPH
FOR the first time in many months, Rangers supporters were able to go to bed last night and sleep the sleep of the saved.
Like Winston Churchill at the end of that day of infamy, Sunday December 7th, 1941, those who follow Rangers now know that salvation for their great club is at hand.
‘Sir’ Walter Smith is riding to their rescue.
And if Charles Green thinks he can halt Smith, or sweet talk him into jumping the dyke, then he has no knowledge of the man.
As the war for the heart and soul of Rangers, sparked by the news that Alastair McCoist does not trust Charles Green, broke out last night, Green made his first major tactical blunder.
In fact, not *merely major, but catastrophic.
Charles Green went *public with a desperate*plea to Walter Smith to abandon the men he has pledged his allegiance to and jump the dyke.
Those who know Smith will tell you, that snake oil salesman pitch from Charles Green will not only have strengthened Smith’s always steely determination, but it will also have made Smith furious. Furious that Green should bandy his name about as some sort of pawn, without first speaking to him.
And even more furious that Charles Green* should have even thought that Smith is the sort of man to be tempted by such a charlatan.
For the one thing those close to the man who has won 21 trophies for Rangers, along with others who have observed him closely for 30 years,
can also tell you, is that it is a mistake to make Walter Smith angry. A bad mistake. A fatal mistake.
And Charles Green has made just such an error.
In my view, those latest ill chosen words from what looks like an increasingly bizarre *Charles Green, will now turn the fight for the heart and soul of Rangers and the title deeds to Ibrox Stadium, into a more bitter and acrimonious battle than it needed to be.
And it is a battle which will see the big battalions of the Rangers support side with Walter Smith. For he is a man of integrity. He is a man they know. He is a man in whom they can place their trust.
Walter Smith is a Rangers man! Through and through!
Charles Green knows the only way he can make money from Rangers – and a fast buck is all he wants – is to fill*his coffers quickly with season ticket money from the rank and file Rangers fans.
And top it up with another couple of million from the fat cats in the Members’ Section.
All to the tune of £16M.
To be followed by a share issue which Green wants the fans to contribute £30M to. All before the end of July.
I’ve got news for Charles Green, who every day grows more and more like Compo from Last of the Summer Wine.
You’ve got no chance!
Not a prayer!
Not a snowball’s chance in Hell.
Rangers supporters will not be buying season tickets for as long as he is inside Ibrox. Rangers fans will not be shelling out for any share issue to line the pockets of Charles Green.
And I have got a wee word of advice for Charles Alexander Green, date of birth, 23, May, 1953. Be very careful your past does not start catching up with you now that the gloves are really off in this fight for the heart and soul of Rangers.
But there is a way out for him. A way in which Charles Green can depart with some honour and a little dignity. Plus a few quid too.
Green should now take whatever reasonable offer he is made by the Walter Smith led consortium of money men and Rangers men. He should take it and move on. Cut and run.
For what he did by trying to sweet talk Walter Smith into jumping the dyke was like taking a knife along to a gun fight.
Rangers supporters will not buy season tickets for as long as Charles Green remains at Ibrox to get his money grabbing mitts on their hard earned dough..
They will not buy into a £30M share issue if Charles Green continues to lord it at The Stadium on the back of money from Rangers fans.
Therefore, Charles Green will not be able to make the big bucks out of Rangers that he planned to. He will not be able to rip Rangers off and then scurry away, leaving goodness knows what sort of mess behind, with it being odds-on Rangers being back in administration again in anything between six and eighteen months.
And despite his bluster and boasting, despite his Compo-like appearance and accent, Charles Green cannot be stupid enough not to know that with the appearance of Walter Smith, his chances of pulling off that coup have now gone with the wind.
He has always claimed that as well as making a fast buck, he wanted to do what was right for Rangers. So far he has failed to convince the overwhelming majority of Rangers supporters of the truth of that.
Now he has a golden chance to do just that. To show he really does have the good of Rangers at heart.
All Charles Green has to do is meet with the tough talking shrewd and tenacious businessmen who will give him the chance to negotiate himself out of danger and sign off Rangers to Walter Smith and his formidable alliance of money men and Rangers men.
Just as what followed the sleep of the saved in December 1941, the road to victory is still littered with obstacles and there are still battles to be fought.
But just as Winston Churchill knew when he slept the sleep of the saved, that the final victory was *inevitable , so too do Rangers supporters, greeting today, know that with Walter Smith leading them, the Promised Land will be reached.