🗓️#OnThisDay 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ : Lee Wallace confirms he'll honour his 5yr #Rangers contract. "When I arrived at Ibrox the support from the club, players & fans was fantastic. Fans showed faith in us during tough times. My decision in no way judges those made by my fellow professionals"
Sickens me still how this very board allowed him to leave in the circumstances they did. The same board with who are still making mistakes to this very day.
Imo he sacrificed his own career for Glasgow Rangers, a debt owed in every sense.
Core values of being a Ranger, Mr Lee Wallace will always tick everyone of them for me.
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I’m not even talking about the CSA stuff, just anything that happens.
Look at the media reaction to George square gatherings, or how certain player behaviours are covered up and ours are amplified, or even petty stuff like player ratings, or over inflation of transfer fees.
The media in Scotland has a significant celtic / catholic / nationalist bias (or anti Rangers / Protestant / unionist) in its reporting. That’s the point I’m making.
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you of the passing of Legendary Erskine Bear - Dinger Bell.
Dinger was a Resident in Erskine Bishopton Veterans Care Home for many years and was known and loved by everyone there. He was also very popular here on RangersMedia, and his photos often popped up in our Erskine threads, cheering us all up over the last 10 years, when we were so often down. The passion and pride that Dinger had for all things Rangers was an inspiration to us all.
Dinger was always a very popular face around Ibrox, and was always more than happy to represent Erskine at Ibrox whenever called upon, which was often! He served as a great ambassador for both Erskine and Rangers for many years, and will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.
Rest In Peace Dinger, and thanks for the memories.
Her Majesty just had time to squeeze in a surprise visit to Erskine Park Veterans' Care Home earlier, to drop off some supplies for Her Boys (and Girls)...
Hopefully there's enough whisky & gin there to ensure that all the Veterans can toast her good health, and still have enough left for next week's D-Day celebrations.
Her Majesty also asked me to thank the very generous RangersMedia Erskine Fund Member who donated those much-needed supplies (as he/she does without fail every year, just in time for D-Day!!)
Her Majesty also said that she hopes to see another successful season of RangersMedia Members supporting Our Erskine Veterans, and One fully expects to see us all digging deep next month, when we begin our New Season Fundraiser to raise the £2000 that we'll need if we want to renew our Veterans Ibrox Season Tickets for another season.
Apparently One is rather keen on more of this kind of thing...
Just a quick thank you to the board and the directors, Dave King, the three bears and for everyone who makes being a Rangers supporter one of the greatest feelings imaginable.
I don't really know how to put into words the rollercoaster of being a fan since 2012 has been and despite not winning the league this years after the way we strolled it last year just isn't in my vocabulary.
From the lows of the Craig White days, came even darker days especially when we lost Walter and Jimmy to the highs of 55 and 4 goals in Dortmund all I can really say about it all is that I'm so proud to be part of this family and honestly hold it almost as dearly as my own.
After what we have all been through this season I promise that I'll stop ripping the piss on this site (although you guys make it so easy 😆) .
The people who have met me in real life know exactly what I'm all about, just a pity that we have a few bully's in our support who like to gang up on the occasional new member and seem to think you're better than them for whatever reason??
If there's any true taigs on the site, which I would never be shocked to see, then raise it with an admin and let them take it from there. There's so many older posters from this site who only post on follow follow these days it's actually depressing.
So try and be a bit nicer to everyone, we almost lost it all and I couldn’t have been prouder trying to hold it all together from behind the scenes.
All the best bears, here's to another 150 successful years. NS 🔴⚪️🔵🇬🇧🏴🏴🇬🇧
THE only first-person account ever written about the formation of Rangers in 1872 has been unearthed after lying undiscovered for 76 years – and it reveals the founding fathers considered naming the Glasgow club Rovers.
David Mason, the Rangers historian, this week launched his new official biography of the Ibrox institution, The Rangers Story: 150 Years Of A Remarkable Football Club, as part of the sesquicentennial anniversary celebrations.
During the course of his research for the book, Mason came into possession of a short hand-written autobiography penned by a Scottish man called James Hill in Canada before he died in 1946.
Hill had grown up in Glasgow in the 1860s and 1870s and had been present at Fleshers Haugh on Glasgow Green when the club formed by Moses McNeill, Peter McNeill, Peter Campbell and William McBeath played their first games.
Hill – who was the younger brother of the eminent early Rangers player and Scotland internationalist David, who is pictured in the iconic photograph of the 1877 Scottish Cup final team, and who also played in some first team games himself – emigrated to Canada in 1882.
However, he wrote his memoirs before he passed away aged 86. In them, he recalls how members of the Argyle Cricket Club joined in games of football with the McNeill brothers, Campbell and McBeath and helped to establish the new club.
He also confirms the colours worn by the first side were light blue and reveals the name Rovers was considered when Rangers were constituted in 1873.
Hill’s granddaughter Meryle Nerland travelled to Scotland back in the 1990s and passed on the manuscript to the then Rangers commercial director Bob Reilly during a visit to Ibrox.
Mason discovered the document when he was writing The Rangers Story and contacted Hill’s great-granddaughter Sonya Savage, a prominent Canadian politician who has served as the Minister of Justice as well as the Solicitor General for Alberta, to request permission to use it.
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“There have been various accounts of Rangers’ formation over the years,” he said. “One was written by William Dunlop, who played in the 1877 team. He wrote quite an authoritative account about the formation. But he wasn’t there. He was just talking about what he had been told. It was second-hand information.
“Moses McNeill did a piece in the Evening Times in 1935. But that was written by John Allan, who produced Rangers’ first history. It was closely aligned to that book and we know there were some errors in it.
“Apart from that, nothing has ever emanated from someone who was actually there at the time Rangers were formed. That is the beauty of the Hill account. This is an account from someone who was integral to the formation of Rangers. It isn’t anecdotal information.
“Nobody until now has ever shown the association of cricket in the formation of the club. It aligns with what was happening in football at that time. It also shows they played in light blue. There has been some debate about whether they played in light blue or royal blue.
“It also shows they considered the name Rovers. They played under different guises early on. They operated under the name Western for a time, they were also called Argyle.
“But in 1873 when they were constituted they finally decided on the name Rangers. There were various suggestions put around. Rovers was one of them, but they decided on Rangers.
“The reason was that Moses McNeill saw the name Rangers in an English rugby football annual. He felt it was an apt name because they were mainly boys from out of town so they were strangers.
“Hill’s autobiographical account had remained lost in family archives until a chance encounter I had with his descendants a few years ago. It is fascinating on a number of levels.
“It highlights the emerging popularity of football at the expense of the summer game of cricket. It also provides some context to the development of the club. But it is the role of the Argyle cricketers that is intriguing.”
Hill wrote: “He (David) excelled in cricket, was a good bowler, and was a leader in the Argyle Cricket Club, which played on Saturday afternoons on Glasgow Green with other boys who attended St James Parish School. That would be about 1870 to 1873.
“About that time, the Rangers made a start. Some youths from the Gareloch used to meet and kick a football on the Saturday afternoon. It was not long until the boys of Argyle CC got interested and discarded the cricket and joined in playing football.
“They used to pick sides and have good games. It ended by their amalgamating into a club and calling it the Rangers, with light blue sweaters and white pants (knickers).
“If I remember, there were other names proposed. Rovers I think was the other name, but Rangers carried and it certainly has been a great club in Scotland, playing association football.”
He continued: “They were playing in Glasgow Green and there was quite a competition to get the playing ground near the shrubbery on the Fleshers Haugh.
“As I was attending school, and had a holiday on Saturday, I sometimes got the Rangers goal posts in position on that pitch. As I grew older, I got playing if they were short a man and in time I was a recognised player in the 2nd eleven. I occasionally filled a place in the 1st eleven but my coming to Canada put a stop to my football career.
“Davie played with the 1st eleven from its beginning and although he was the youngest player in the team, he done so well. He was picked by the Football Association to play against England in 1882. They done well that year as they beat England 6-2, if I remember alright, in the Oval, London. He also played against Wales and Ireland.
“He generally got the credit of being the originator of the passing game. In association football, as most players at that time (were) inclined to hang on to the ball until they lost it.”
Mason said: “Hill’s account is really important information. His granddaughter has passed away. But I contacted the family and received permission to use the memoirs.
“His great-grandaughter Sonya Savage sent me an email stating she had no objections and congratulating Rangers on reaching ‘the great milestone of 150 years’.”
The Rangers Story: 150 Years Of A Remarkable Football Club by David Mason is published by Pitch Publishing and costs £40.
I knew we played games under the name of Argyle and Western in the very early days but I didn't know we could have been called Rovers . Fascinating bit of history here
