Michael Beale reckons Douglas Park departs the Ibrox boardroom having helped piece back together a broken club.
Grab a result at Celtic Park today and there’s every chance the Light Blues legions will speak in similarly glowing terms about his own Rangers restoration job. It’s all change at the top of the marble staircase, with Park handing over the chairmanship to John Bennett. The motor group tycoon was one of the Three Bears who stepped in alongside Dave King to claw control away from Mike Ashley, putting Gers on a course that eventually ended with them roaring all the way to Seville having halted 10 in a row.
Of course, as well as those scoring highs, Park’s tenure also witnessed plenty of downs, dramas and controversies and Rangers return to Parkhead this afternoon sees Celtic again on the verge of being crowned kings of Scotland. But on the whole Beale is adamant Gers are in a far better state than when the former chairman started ponying up huge sums to reverse Ashley’s efforts to transform the Ibrox side into the footballing equivalent of his bargain-basement retail empire.
