GREGG WYLDE has told how Rangers' players discovered the Ibrox club had entered administration via Sky Sports News.
The former Light Blues winger has revealed senior members of the squad, including Allan McGregor, were furious with then-owner Craig Whyte, which created a "scary" and "hostile" atmosphere.
Recalling the incident from 2012 on the latest edition of the Football Daft podcast, Wylde said the news broke while the players were still on the pitch during a bounce game against Hibs.
He said: “I didn’t have run ins with him [Craig Whyte] but he knew it was coming the day we went into administration.
“We had a bounce game at Hibs, through in Edinburgh.
“So I went through, and we had our meeting before we left Murray Park, he [Whyte] said next week we were going to go into administration.
“But we were playing this game at Hibs through in Edinburgh. Hibs put lunch on for us.
“And we saw it on Sky Sports News – ‘Rangers in administration’.
“But he never told us before we left. He never told us on the day. He said it was going to be next week, but he knew it was going to be that day.
“Greegsy (goalkeeper Allan McGregor) and that had a few words with him. Mate, it was hostile. It was a bit scary.
“He [Whyte] knew it was coming... so why didn’t he just come out face-to-face and tell us the truth and say it’s going to come out in the papers, in the news today, so be prepared for it… and we found out after the game.
“We met at Murray Park before we left to go to Hibs and he came in to have a meeting in the first-team changing room and told us [that administration would be next week] and we went on the bus to Hibs, played the game, I think it came out when we were playing during the game.
“Then after it we saw it on Sky Sports News, it had come out. The whole bus going back, it was silence, nothing.”
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