For all the gloating and gallows humour hanging over Ibrox - a humorous/stinging (delete as appropriate) selection of which can be found on The Sun’s back pages - sympathy for the club’s plight remains - not least from former manager Walter Smith, who...

Rangers invested big as players of the calibre of Brian Laudrup, Paul Gascoigne and, infamously for £14m, Tore Andre Flo graced Govan. At one stage, the club's debts stood at a vertiginous £80m, bankrolled in the hope of European glory that never fully...

The likes of Lee Clark may come into the frame after his surprise sacking by Huddersfield, but Wolves have indicated they are looking for a more experiences candidate than him. So name like Gordon Strachan and Walter Smith are starting to be mentioned.

NOBODY in their right footballing mind would now say Rangers have a hope in hell of winning the title. But we have said that for the past three years when Walter Smith's side dug in and won games, dug in again and won, and dug in again. The massive...

Dave King, the South African-based businessman who was removed from the club's board last week, is also believed to be involved in the deal. Mr Murray's plans will be given high-profile backing by a plethora of Ibrox legends – including former manager...

“We are extras in a film, just like we were last May when Rangers won the title at our place,” said Shiels. “We are such an insignificant part of the game. Looking back to that day in May, which was also Walter Smith’s last game in charge of Rangers,...

Thern spent most of his Ranger career injured, starting a worrying trend in the signing of injured or injury prone players, and the rest of that disparate bunch surrendered the title to Celtic. Walter Smith left Ibrox at the end of that season 1997-98...

McCoist, assistant to Walter Smith before taking over at the helm in the summer, says he can empathise with worried fans after the Scottish champions went into administration on Tuesday. The Light Blues have immediately been docked 10 points by the...

Holdings (MIH). Perhaps realising the extent that Rangers had become a personal and financial drain, Murray announced in July 2006 that he was ready to sell the club. It would be some time, however, before he would find an exit. Paul Le Guen's ill-fated...

Rangers manager Ally McCoist has issued a rallying call to supporters to back the club in its hour of need. McCoist - the Ibrox side's record goalscorer and assistant to Walter Smith before taking over at the helm in the summer - says he can empathise...

When Souness left for Liverpool in April 1991, Walter Smith was appointed manager and the following season steered the team to what was effectively the semi-finals of the Champions League, having beaten Leeds United home and away to assert Rangers’...

The Light Blues have immediately been docked 10 points by the Scottish Premier League - leaving them 14 points adrift of leader Celtic - meaning the title race and hopes of a fourth successive championship are effectively over. But, with a game against...

Rangers have immediately been docked 10 points by the Scottish Premier League – leaving them 14 points adrift of leaders Celtic – meaning the title race and hopes of a fourth successive championship are more than remote. But, with a game against...

He won the league two more times, in seasons 1988-89 and 1989-90 and two more League Cups in 1989 and 1991, before leaving to take up the manager's job at Liverpool. Souness was followed in 1991 by his assistant, Walter Smith, who was given major...

The man caught in the middle, Ally McCoist, deserves most sympathy. A former striker in the blue shirt of Rangers, McCoist scored 250 times in his 418 games for the ’Gers, and 402 goals in 772 games for all the teams he played for. He then served an...

A warning from the former Rangers manager Walter Smith that the club are in grave danger of returning to the barren years of the early 1980s was endorsed last Sunday. A crowd of fewer than 18,000 for Dundee United's Scottish Cup visit to Ibrox conjured...

“I have been playing well and feel in good shape. I scored goals in Scotland before and I can again. “My goal against Celtic in my final game for Rangers is something I will always remember. “I now want to continue from where I left off. I played under...

It's even more difficult again if you're a back-up goalkeeper. You're on a hiding to nothing as second-choice - so just who would be one? You'd need to get inside a goalkeeper's head to discover why you would be satisfied with this. Guys such as Roy...

Some context is required. In the modern day, there is only one team which has enjoyed a longer sequence of straight victories across the various domestic tournaments. In 2001/02, Martin O’Neill’s Celtic team posted a 19-game such run. No team managed...