Former Rangers chairman ends three DECADE Ibrox exile as David Murray's predecessor blames 'nasty' politics
dailyrecord.co.ukFormer Rangers chairman David Holmes ended his three-decade exile from Ibrox and revealed his hurt at being outcast from a club where he began a revolution.The 88-year-old spoke from inside the Blue Room at Ibrox at the launch of his book, ‘One Voice’, and admitted his exit in 1989 after being replaced by David Murray was on the back of ‘nasty’ boardroom politics.
Holmes recruited Graeme Souness in 1986 to trigger a period which would transform the Scottish football landscape and he insists he’s come to terms with the fact he was persona non grata when it came to club invites.He said: “It is a bit nostalgic.
It is the first time I have been invited back here for 34 years. That is the bit that hurt. Anyway, that has passed. I might have [come to watch a game] but I was never invited and I was never invited because when I came in here I wasn’t the most popular person on the board.“They knew what was going to happen and when I left here I wasn’t the most popular because they knew what had happened.
My affection towards the supporters and the supporters’ affection towards me? Nobody will ever break that. They made it very, very nasty and I was quite pleased to move away at the time.
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