ON the actual day of the EGM, I made the decision just to walk along to the stadium by myself to gather my thoughts about what we had finally achieved.
I had been to the Fernando Ricksen tribute match the month before. But, that aside, it was the first time I had been to Ibrox since October. It was a strange day.
The meeting lasted 11 minutes. There was a nice atmosphere.
We knew it would be a few hours before the announcement was made official. I hung about for a bit and did a few interviews. I went down to The Louden Tavern for a pint and then made my way to The District Bar to wait for the result to come out.
Billy Montgomery came up and tapped me on the shoulder. He pointed out an elderly gentleman sitting at the end of the bar and said: “He’s wanting a word with you.”
Truth be told, I was a bit irked because the result was going to come through any minute. But I didn’t want to be disrespectful so I went over and introduced myself.
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He shook my hand and said: “My name is James Struth. Bill Struth was my uncle. I want to thank you for all your efforts for Rangers.”
As God is my witness, as soon as the words left his mouth a huge roar went up. The result of the vote had gone up on the television and we had won by a huge margin.
Gilligan, King and Murray had received around 85 per cent of the votes cast and had been installed as directors.
In the build-up to the EGM a strange thought had kept popping into my head for some reason. I was repeatedly asking myself: “I wonder who I’ll be with when the announcement is made?”
It was spooky that I was standing with a direct descendent of the man who I had named our organisation after.
James started telling me stories about his uncle which, I am now ashamed to admit, I actually can’t recall. I was just so overcome by what had happened after two years of struggle and how surreal the situation was.
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