RANGERS TAKEOVER LEADER’S “SECRET MISSION”: MORE PATHETIC PR FROM THE S*N
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Jul 27
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 4
You don’t need to have most of the Scottish mainstream press eating out of your hand to buy Rangers, but as Andrew Cavenagh has shown over the last few months, it certainly helps.
Ever the eager lapdog when it comes to repeating all Rangers’ PR statements verbatum and without question, The S*n managed to turn the purchase of a match ticket into an entire leading news story today, with The Rangers Takeover “Mastermind” (It’s not often I’ll use mastermind and Rangers in the same sentence, but here we are), as it’s primary protagonist.
Rangers Takeover Happened After Cavenagh Sat Among “Normal Fans”. Though Not For the Reasons the S*n Seems to Think
It’s a bit bizarre to see the denizens of the Copland Road referred to as “normal fans”, given how educationally, morally, and genetically sub-normal so many of them are, but I’ll set that aside for now.
It’s also patronizing in the extreme to attempt to cast a vulture capitalist like Andrew Cavenagh as some kind of “man of the people” just because he actually bought a ticket for a game once.
So, The S*n claims in today’s “exclusive” that Cavenagh made the decision to buy Rangers after attending a game at Ibrox last November. Interesting to note that the San Francisco 49ers aren’t mentioned at all in the piece’s main text.
That whole lie about “The 49ers are buying Rangers” has just been casually brushed under the rug, hasn’t it?
It’s all the usual guff about Cavenagh being swept up in the atmosphere, seeing the huge potential and history of the club (all 13 years of it), just the kind of factually inaccurate fluffing we’ve come to expect from The S*n over the years.
As a footnote, they also mention that there were “significant fan protests” that day (aren’t there always at Ibrox?).
I actually believe that The S*n is right about one thing here. That snowy afternoon in November probably was the day Cavenagh decided to take over Rangers, but not at all for the reasons The S*n suggests.
Like the good vulture capitalist that he is, Cavenagh probably looked at the fans with their lego-esque tifos, their mis-spelled protest slogans and their anger which far exceeded their limited intellect and thought: “There’s money to be made here.”
I mean let’s face it, if there’s one thing some of the world’s most famous American businessmen are good at, it’s manipulating the desperate, the angry and the gullible on a mass-scale to line their own pockets. Do it right, and it might even land you in The White House, twice!
Like I said before, it’s no coincidence that Cavenagh brought Keith Jackson and the Daily Record into the fold as early on in the negotiations as he did. Who better to manipulate the easily led lambs that are the Rangers support than their biggest cheerleader?
Not only does Jackson excel in the art of Rangers cheerleading, but he also, probably more importantly for Cavenagh, never asks any meaningful questions or challenges the narrative that people like Cavenagh, and Craig Whyte before him, want to put out there to the public.
Andrew Cavenagh is many things but stupid clearly isn’t one of them. With a compliant media fully onside, and a Rangers support once again aggressively attacking anyone within their own ranks who even questions the motives of their latest leader, Cavenagh has been able to acquire this club, move its assets out of the arena of public scrutiny and used hardly any of his own money in doing so.
Remind you of anyone?
Expect the Ibrox PR assault to continue, as will the loan signings and “undisclosed fees”. Celtic need to focus on getting our own act together. Because if we can, then a victory at the end of August over at Snake Mountain could bring about the absolute mother of all meltdowns.
In any case, interesting times ahead.
