Charles Green reveals utterly mad plan that would've seen Rangers players starring in England
Rangers could have faced a totally different fate if Charles Green got his way.
The Ibrox club were a total mess in 2012 as they began life in the Scottish Third Division.
Ally McCoist was in charge and helped drag the Gers to promotion at the first time of asking.
That brought some much-needed positivity in some truly dark days in Govan.
The end of that campaign marked the departure of Green as CEO due to allegations about dealings with former owner Craig Whyte.
It now appears that Rangers got away with one as the then-chief executive had plans to take the Light Blues into the English pyramid.
How Charles Green planned for Rangers to play in England
In August 2013, the consultant agreed to sell his shareholding in the G51 club.
He had led the consortium to buy the club in the midst of the financial crisis but was soon forced out.
That was music to the ears of McCoist who had previously described Green as "an embarrassment" when he said the manager was under pressure to win a cup as well as promotion.
Little did he know at the time that the businessman had plans to move Rangers into the English pyramid.
He revealed those plans on Richard Keys and Andy Gray's podcast, Keys and Gray Unleashed, on Thursday.
It's safe to say, they are utterly bizarre.
"If I buy Stafford Rangers, I change the name the day after I buy it. It's no longer 'Stafford Rangers', we delete the name 'Stafford' and we become 'Rangers'.
"We now have a team which is this guy, that guy, that guy, this guy, who are obviously the Rangers first-team. In Scotland, we have the reserves playing in the Scottish league. So the Rangers reserves, at the time, would win the third division.
"We get people saying, 'Well, teams can't play.' But we've already got Welsh teams playing in England, Scottish teams playing in England, English teams playing in Scotland. So, all of a sudden, just because Charles Green wants to do it, it's not allowed?"
Why Green's Rangers plans were always doomed
With the Gers facing so many financial issues at the time of these plans, they were always going to face issues.
Let's ignore that for now and assess his "Scottish teams playing in England" and "English teams playing in Scotland".
The latter point is true as two English clubs currently feature in the Scottish football league system in Berwick Rangers and Tweedmouth Rangers.
Both of these sides are based in Berwick-upon-Tweed, a town just four miles from the Scottish border.
That compares to 272 miles you would have to travel to get to Stafford.
The suggestion that Scottish teams play in England is totally incorrect as that hasn't happened since Gretna, but that came to an end in 2002.
Green's plans came 10 years later, so he doesn't truly have a leg to stand on with that part of his debate.
It is all in all a mad plan that just simply would have never worked.
Why would Rangers fans want to see their club play in a small town just north of Birmingham?
Stafford Rangers were playing in the Northern Premier League at the time, the eight tier of English football.
Somehow Green saw that as better than the fourth tier of Scottish football. Bizarre.