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Opportunity to give the people a real voice

'We are the People" is one of the great Rangers rallying cries.

Germany's 100% member-owned Hamburg SV offers a model for a revamped Glasgow Rangers  Photograph:  John MacDougall
Germany's 100% member-owned Hamburg SV offers a model for a revamped Glasgow Rangers Photograph: John MacDougall

But the sad fact is that the club is currently an organisation apart, clearly separate from the thousands upon thousands of people who support it. "We are the Outsiders" might be a better slogan.

It need not be so. I strongly believe that the club's current travails are rooted in an out-of-date ownership model; one man owns the club.