John Gilligan rejects 'ridiculous' Rangers comparison as interim chairman talks chasing Celtic and fresh investment

dailyrecord.co.uk:

John Gilligan has seen what a club in crisis looks like. Nine and a half years ago to be precise when he - alongside Dave King and Paul Murray - rode to the rescue of Rangers and freed them from the suffocating stranglehold of Mike Ashley.

Back then he swept into the boardroom of a skint club not even in the top division with dilapidated facilities, a second-rate squad, a manager on gardening leave and a host of legal issues waiting to be taken on as the dust refused to settle on the financial meltdown of 2012.

No wonder the man who returned to his beloved Ibrox as interim chairman last week had absolutely no hesitation in smacking down his old comrade King ’s claims that the club was again “in crisis”.Gilligan’s temporary tenure - which he hopes will last only a couple of months - may be stacked full of priorities with finding a new chief executive officer right at the very top.

But even the pressing need for new figureheads, his admission that the financial gap with Celtic is “considerable” and the general feeling of dismay among the support after a series of summer setbacks doesn’t come close to the low Gilligan felt when he first took position back in 2015.The fact that, at 72-years-old, he has been tempted back into such a stress-filled position probably attests to that.