The Charles Green Rangers bombshell that came from nowhere to leave Blue Knights stunned and asking 'Charles WHO?'

The world as Rangers knew it had caved in on top of them.

With a club now headlocked in administration – being handled by the very firm Craig Whyte had in mind from the start – the spectre of something even more disastrous was fast coming into view. Liquidation.

Having spent the previous two years consumed by this constantly unfolding nightmare, Paul Murray was not about to wash his hands of it all now. No matter how hopeless it seemed.

In March 2012 Murray pulled together a consortium of wealthy fans with the aim of safely delivering their club from the clutches of Duff & Phelps. The Blue Knights were full of noble intentions and loudly championed by fellow fans.

But they were about to be dragged into a murky and increasingly bizarre power struggle. Their proposed rescue package should have been straightforward. It was certainly an easy sell to a support which was still reeling from the events of the previous few weeks.

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Murray soon discovered that almost nothing was as it seemed.

“I wanted to try to pull off a CVA. It was really important because it wouldn’t have led to liquidation of the company – not the club, the company,” Murray emphasises the point with the weariness of someone who has