BUNGLING Rangers directors were today accused of managing the Ibrox club the same way Basil Fawlty ran his TV hotel as arrangements for next month's EGM descended into farce.

The Glasgow club announced the general meeting would be staged in the Grange Tower Bridge

Hotel in London on March 4 in a statement to the AIM Stock Exchange yesterday morning.

The venue had to be changed after the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in Kensington pulled out last week amid fears about their guests being disrupted.

However, the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel did exactly the same thing just hours after it had been confirmed as the new location citing concerns for residents and staff.

And the SPFL Championship club revealed last night that the EGM called by shareholder Dave King would be held at Ibrox - where fans had wanted it to be from the start. The developments came after one of the official Rangers Fans Board predicted its members would be sacked and the body dissolved by the club - less than a year after it was set up.

The fans board angered the board by posting minutes of their meeting with chief executive Derek Llambias and director Barry Leach last week online without their permission.

Ethnic minorities representative Dr Zia wrote "this won't dampen our desire and motivation to get our club back from the clutches of the men who have blackened our name for the past three years".

Lifelong Rangers supporter Reverend Stuart MacQuarrie, who was instrumental in the setting up of the board, admitted he was saddened by events at the club he has followed for over 50 years.

And he compared the directors' handling of club affairs to 1970s sitcom icon Basil Fawlty running his shambolic guest house Fawlty Towers.

He said: "What is the club's business strategy? Blame your customers for everything seems to be the strategy at the moment.

"It is straight out of the Fawlty Towers book of management, in fact.

"The club is antagonising its customers. How do they bring in sponsors on the back of that? I am sure the current backers of the club are less than happy at what is happening."

Llambias revealed to the Rangers Fans Board that the EGM had been moved from Glasgow to London due to the behaviour of shareholders at the AGM in December. But Reverend MacQuarrie reckons the meeting should always have been held at the stadium and dismissed concerns about the crowd conduct.

He said: "It was a poor and sorry excuse. Ibrox is the most secure place. The EGM is only going to last for 15 or 20 minutes. Are the people who work at senior executive level at Rangers unable to last through 15 or 20 minutes of discomfort?

"The company was launched in Glasgow and its had its AGMs, some pretty stormy ones and some good ones, in various locations in the city.

"Is it a slight on the Scottish police force and the quality of the stewards who work at Ibrox? If it wasn't so serious it would be a comedy."