Boab 73 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Sport Football RangersRangers' Ally McCoist angry that historic shares in Arsenal were sold• 1910 link with Arsenal broken by Craig Whyte selling shares• 'It's particularly sore for a Rangers supporter,' says McCoist Ewan Murray guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 February 2012 23.02 GMT Article historyAlly McCoist, the Rangers managerAlly McCoist, the Rangers manager, said that it was 'really sad' that the club's shares in Arsenal had been sold. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesAlly McCoist has hit out after it was revealed that historic shares held by Rangers in Arsenal were sold by Craig Whyte.With Rangers in administration, negative stories about the regime presided over by Whyte as owner have emerged on a daily basis. The latest revelation centres on Whyte selling the Arsenal shares, which formed a link between the clubs dating back to 1910, for £230,000 to the Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov's Red & White Holdings. Those funds were not even paid into Rangers' own bank account.Rangers came to Arsenal's aid during a financial crisis, buying two shares at the time. Twenty years later the London club handed Rangers 14 shares for free in gratitude for their help, cementing a relationship between the two clubs.McCoist said: "I'm extremely disappointed in some of the things unfolding – not least the situation with the Arsenal shares. That's a particularly sore one for a Rangers supporter. I don't think me voicing any opinions at this moment in time – pointing fingers of blame or saying this, that or the other – is going to help anybody."With that in mind I'll keep my own counsel on my own views. But selling the Arsenal shares was a really sore one. Something like that is your history, your heritage. Not only that, it's a great story between the two football clubs. So that was really sad."http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/feb/24/rangers-ally-mccoist-shares-arsenal?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsons Dog 9,878 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I'm going to e-mail Alisher Usmanov and tell him whats happened here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunslinger 270 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 any rangers fan will be hurting over this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 108,733 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Of course it hurt like it did me and most fans, this isnt just some shares this is part of our history and what makes us great Craig Whyte i hope you rot in hell ya bastard Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
boss 1,941 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 any rangers fan will be hurting over this.Big time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nachothelegend 1,932 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Feel sorry for Ally he is in the eye of this Storm and has the club at heart.He realy is a True Blue.I know tactically he has struggled but i feel his pain on this one .Whyte you Arse.There i said it for him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minstral 5,375 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Just amazed he could sell them without other people knowing about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 108,733 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Just amazed he could sell them without other people knowing about it.Im scared of what else may come out Minstral.We can argue all day and night about what SDM and co have done but this man is the cancer Rangers need rid of before the post mortem begins Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody 103 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 any rangers fan will be hurting over this.Agreed. Whyte has cashed in some of our history here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsons Dog 9,878 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Just amazed he could sell them without other people knowing about it.The worrying thing is the money never hit our bank account.Did it go straight to Banstead? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 108,733 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 The worrying thing is the money never hit our bank account.Did it go straight to Banstead?Latest word on the street is Banstead got fuck all and went to their owner, did he allow whyte to show proof of funds that were really his Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlands plater 16,958 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Maybe not a lot of money in the grand scale of things, but morally corrupt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueblue68 2,497 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 How could he do this to us? This hurts. I am worried about what else he has sold off that we aint heard about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 108,733 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Maybe not a lot of money in the grand scale of things, but morally corrupt.I think the amount that changed hands for part of our history makes it worse mate. Imo of course Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amac9 2,060 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Craig Whyte will never be forgiven.Two faced son of a bitch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlands plater 16,958 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I think the amount that changed hands for part of our history makes it worse mate. Imo of courseI know what you're saying. All that history pawned for 200k. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Mustard 380 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Maybe not a lot of money in the grand scale of things, but morally corrupt.The money doesn't even come into this shite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adoniram 1,919 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 any rangers fan will be hurting over this.Such a shame the old board recommended they be sold if you care to look over past AGM minutes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertN 390 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Guess this is why he cleared out anybody who would have saw right through this and raised the alarmwtf has been going on Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 108,733 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Such a shame the old board recommended they be sold if you care to look over past AGM minutes.But never did... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
southcoastbear 1,639 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 CW must not be allowed back into ibrox who knows what else he will lift. Hoping he hasn't done already Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Mustard 380 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 100 years of history gone for the price of paying an average player for 6 months.I'd rather have punted a player and played a boy in his place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRITNEY IS NOT FEELING IT 8,293 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Such a shame the old board recommended they be sold if you care to look over past AGM minutes.C'mon now Adoniram , (as a good poster on RM ) . the old board ,for all their problems whilst in charge had nothing to with the little shit cw flogging the shares . Full blame is in his court , ( hope cw gets major jail time loyal ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Wull 203 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Rangers will rise again and win more titles (and plenty of them), but those shares were part of the club's history and can't be replaced. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanhentze 14,073 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Very sad that these are sold. I think it says a lot about the man.. No respect! All in the name of 200k Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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