Bury FC scotches Rangers rumours
REPORTS suggesting that the new owners of Scottish football giants Rangers will try and enter the English league by buying Bury Football Club, have been dismissed by the North West club’s directors.
National newspapers including The Sun and Mirror reported that Rangers’ owner Charles Green is weighing up a controversial plan to buy a club like Bury and then have it play its fixtures in Glasgow – potentially giving the Scottish club access to the more-lucrative English league.
In a statement Bury FC directors said such a move would not be acceptable: “Whilst investment into Bury Football Club is always welcome, any offer of investment will only be viewed at taking the club forward in its only one guise possible – based in the town of Bury, and as Bury Football Club.
“The directors of Bury FC place the integrity and morality of the club, and football as a whole, way above and beyond any possible financial gain.”
Rangers – which is now owned by a new business led by former Sheffield United director Charles Green – saw its previous parent company placed into liquidation over huge unpaid tax bills.
The ‘new-co’ was not included in the Scottish Premier League’s fixture list – and could be forced into Scotland’s second tier if other clubs vote not to allow it back in.
