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Emotional Ally McCoist pays tribute to late Ibrox legend Sandy Jardine for his role in Rangers revival
Rangers great Sandy Jardine, left, and Ally McCoist in 2013. FORMER Rangers manager Ally McCoist today paid an emotional tribute to late Ibrox legend Sandy Jardine for the role he played in helping the Glasgow giants recover from their 2012 financial implosion as Steven Gerrard’s side were presented with the Premiership trophy. Thousands of Rangers fans partied across the city and country today as James Tavernier and his team mates finally lifted the Scottish title for the first time since 2011 after a 3-0 triumph over Aberdeen at home in their final league fixture.
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.