Leggo - David Murray To Be Questioned BY Rangers Administrators

[ian1964 10,720]

DAVID MURRAY is believed to have been questioned by the administrators over his time as Rangers owner.

 

The shock move which dragged David Murray back to the centre of the Rangers crisis was thought to have happened today.

 

My information is that adminstrators Duff and Phelps two men on the Rangers case, Paul Clark and David Whitehouse, were due to travel through to Edinburgh to visit David Murray at the headquarters of the Murray Group empire in Charlotte Square.

 

Again, if my info is correct, that meeting was scheduled for early afternoon.

 

There had been no sign of them when Murray left his offices just after four on Friday afternoon, destination unknown.

 

Charlotte Square had seen a posse of television cameras and newspaper photpographers camped outside the Muray Group HQ.

 

Speculation mounted that the administrators were tipped off about the media circus and the meeting may have been moved to a secret hideaway.

 

It is believed the adminstrators, keen to get a full picture of how Rangers ended up in this mess, decided they had to grill David Murray on events during his time as the Ibrox club's owner.

 

Though it is inconceivable that any questions from the administrators to David Murray would leave out events surrounding the purchase from him of Rangers by Craig Whyte from him.

 

Never mind there being no place to hide for conman Whyte, it now looks as though there wonâ??t be a bolt hole big enough for David Murray and his massive ego if he doesnâ??t DO something to help Rangers.

 

 

And DO it soon!

 

 

Blustering braggart words wonâ??t hold water anymore. David Murray has to step up and admit he was conned by Whyte. Duped, just like so many, me included.

 

 

Though not of course Alastair â??Watch Whyte Like A Hawkâ? Johnston and Paul Murray. Along with John McClelland and Greatest Ever Ranger, John Greig, they had Whyteâ??s number.

 

 

They warned David Murray, but David was too big heided to listen. No surprise there, then.

 

 

But there is no shame in being conned. Everybody, no matter how smart, has at some time fallen for the three-card-trick. Though the big time con artists usually look for a â??markâ? with an ego which is bigger than his brain

 

 

However, and this is especially the case with this victim, who has such a towering ego that it actually dwarfs the reality of who and what David Murray really is, then facing up to being the victim, the â??mark,â? and admitting it, is pretty hard.

 

 

In some ways David Murray is like the bullying blustering character, Doyle Lonnegan, played with such panache by Robert Shaw in that wonderful movie, The Sting.

 

 

David Murray, though, faces another problem. For if he doesnâ??t confess to being Whyteâ??s â??markâ? then many may even consider an alternative, which is that he sold out Rangers knowing full well that Whyte was a shyster.

 

A sort of upmarket version of the sharks who sell counterfeit dvds from stalls in the Barras.

 

I would refuse to believe anyone who said such a thing. I would refuse to believe Murray capable of such an act. And that's a fact!

 

 

But right now David Murray is between a rock and a hard place. And they are just about to start squeezing and pressing in on him.

 

 

Does David Murray, for instance, want his pal, First Minister Alex Salmond, to look out of the window of his swanky Bute House official residence and gaze across the very home of Scotlandâ??s Establishment, Charlotte Square, and see a motley crew of furious Rangers supporters laying siege to Murrayâ??s Murray Group Headquarters?

 

 

Plans for just such a demo are already in the pipeline.

 

 

Rangers fans I have spoken to know they canâ??t pin conman Whyte down, but they know where to find David Murray. Or at least his seriously prestigious headquarters in Edinburgh.

 

 

The duce burgers of Auld Reekie â?? lawyers, bankers, politicians, businessmen, the movers and shakers â?? wonâ??t have seen anything like it. A horde of angry Glaswegians descending on the very heart of their Establishment Citadel.

 

 

David Murray would do well to remember that.

 

 

Which is why he must speak out. And do it publicly, facing the cameras and the news media and not just a handful of cherry picked lackeys, the chief of whom ainâ??t â??andy at the moment, being oceans away.

 

 

But admitting to having been conned and then departing the scene wonâ??t cut it for David Murray. All that will be, is a start.

 

 

For as Rangers coffers get dangerously close to being empty, David Murray must accept his moral obligations. He must seek an urgent meeting with the administrators and offer a contribution from his own vast personal wealth. Around £10M to be used by the administrators to keep Rangers afloat for the next four or five months should just about do it.

 

 

Even that still stops at just being a start.

 

 

David Murrayâ??s culpability in all of this mess is there for all to see. Whatever the legal, niceties turn out to be, the morality of the situation is beyond doubt and debate.

 

 

David Murray must explain why he did not sell to the Paul Murray led bid more than two years ago, when it is believed Lloyds said the bid was too low. Yet it was more than £20m MORE than the QUID Whyte handed over for 85per cent of the Ibrox shares.

 

 

David must also explain why he again turned down a £20m plus bid from Paul last April. On the 19th and 20th of April I warned about the dangers of the Whyte move. Check it out in the archives on the right of this page.

 

 

David Murray was furious and I have evidence which strongly suggests that he moved against me with one of his no longer quite so â??andy press lackeys ordered to take action against me.

 

 

But I am still here, still searching for the truth and believe I am trusted by my close to 1.5MILLION readers. I wonder if any of them would repose such trust in David Murray?

 

 

David Murray has got a lot to answer for. And â?? given his boasts about vineyards in France and Old Masters on the walls of his Charlotte Square headquarters â?? plenty of money available to start to make amends.

 

 

And should he require any further incentive, he should ask his Charlotte Square neighbhours what they will think if a thousand or so noisy and rough types from Glasgow descend on the very heart of Edinburghâ??s Establishment.

 

 

There is no bolt hole for David Murray. The rock and the hard place press in on him.

 

 

My advice to David Murray is taken from the stamp Winston Churchill used to adorn his urgent wartime orders withâ?¦..ATD!

 

 

ACTION THIS DAY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

....AND

 

 

 

 

WHAT a curious choice STV made by inviting Bill Leckie on to Scotland Tonight to talk about the Rangers crisis.

 

 

The Sun have been so far behind on this story that the Record has lapped them...twice!

 

 

In fact when Leckie was asked if there was more to come on the story, I half expected him to say.....

 

 

Yes, and you will read it in the Record.

 

 

Mind you, he seemed to know nothing about the lauch of the Sun on Sunday this weekend and gave the appearance of not approving of the way the whole thing was being done.

[forlanssister 3,111]

Since Leggat asks us to look back in his archive lets travel all the way back to 2/2/12

 

 

However, there can also be little room for doubt that the difficulties which engulf the Ibrox club are not of current owner and chairman, Craig Whyteâ??s making.

 

So, you are perfectly entitled to ask, why doesnâ??t Craig Whyte just come out and lay his game plan, his end plan, before the people?

 

It is not so simple. If Whyte did that then he would be revealing his hand. And, as I have said before, Whyte is a poker player from the top drawer.

 

 

http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/2012/...aig-whyte.html

 

Damascene doesn't even begin to describe it!

[bluebear54 0]

Not a great fan of Leggat. His heart's in the right place, but at times he does more harm than good.

 

With due respect, he's not the only one to be backtracking on CW.

 

There's probably another 40000 -60000 out there.