Mr McCoist was on the the list of redundancies suggested along with Mr Jardine.
Ally McCoist and Sandy Jardine The details emerged as Andrew Dickson, the head of football administration at Rangers at the time Rangers went into financial meltdown agreed that a level of cuts would have been a sensible approach and said that more could have been done to offload players. But in his statement, Mr Dickson, the current club finance director said at no point did the adminstrators ask him for his opinion or assistance regarding player redundancies. Had the joint administrators carried out an exercise to analyse the playing squad to try and work out who to retain, who to sell and who to make redundant, I would have been able to assist with that, said Mr Dickson, who at the time of the club s financial implosion, had been football administration head for eight years and employed by the club for 19 years.
ONE of the problems is that council bin men don’t collect the bins from some backcourts due to their so-called health and safety (Glasgow City Council agency cost trebles, April 1). So they use agency staff to get the bins and put them on to the pavement. Now either they make the access to bin areas more safe so the unions don’t crack up, or they think, “well, let’s get agency staff who have no union and won’t give us a headache over the slightest thing and an excuse not to collect bins.” I would say overall it’s cheaper to use the agency, not more expensive, as they don’t have to use them when it’s not necessary.
AFTER the second Rangers goal went in, courtesy of Willie Johnston, there was pandemonium in the ‘blue’ end of Celtic Park. “To say that their supporters were ecstatic would be putting it mildly,” wrote the Glasgow Herald’s Glyn Edwards. “Several even had to receive medical attention behind the goal after having been caught up in the delirium”. It was Saturday, September 14, 1968, the second week of the new league season. Celtic had won the previous three league titles, and Rangers had a lot to play for in the new campaign. Örjan Persson put them ahead in the 17th minute, followed quickly by Johnston. Both strikers, said Edwards, had a field day. (Highlights of the game, shot by a Rangers fan using a Super 8mm camera, are viewable on YouTube).
Ten years ago now the late, great Sandy Jardine went along to Markinch in Fife to speak at an awards ceremony at the school where five of the local boys lost to the Ibrox disaster had attended. A