07 July 2006
7 Days to Bastille Night - Win Tickets and View The Raffle/Auction Prizes Here!

The countdown has started to the first exciting social evening of 2006!

Next Friday 14th July at the Thistle Hotel, Glasgow the Trust informally welcomes Paul Le Guen to our great club. Accompanying the first class Indian buffet provided by Mr Singh's shall be Q&A sessions with Rangers legends Graham Roberts, Colin Stein, Willie Johnston and Tam Forsyth; a disco/DJ and some other ex-players in attendance.

All for an incredible £20 per person! You can win tickets by entering our competition below.

There will also be an exciting raffle and mini-auction on the night. You can enter the raffle below even if you can't make the evening.

Auction prizes are as follows:-

* 2 directors box tickets
* Framed PLG signed Rangers shirt
* Champagne cruise for 10 on Loch Lomond
* Signed Cup Winners Cup replica shirt, retro ticket & signed photographs

Raffle prizes are as follows:-

* 12 month subscription to Setanta
* Horse Racing Membership
* One night in Thistle Hotel Glasgow B&B deluxe room
* Rangers shirt signed by legends
* Replica Cup Winners' Cup shirt signed by Stein & Johnston
* French home shirt
* French away shirt
* French goalkeeper shirt
* Voucher for the Men's Store
* Limited edition pictures
* Legends photographs
* Meal for 2 at Mr Singh's
* Ibrox Union Jack canvas
* Voucher for La Fiorintina
* A Unique and Unseen 'Double Standard'
* Voucher for the Crowne Plaza Hotel
* And more yet to be donated

If you can't make the evening, you can still enter the raffle by using the secure donation section of our site. Simply enter £10 if you want to enter the raffle (drawn by the popular '£10 in an envelope' process) and make this clear in the comments section of the online donation form.

You can now buy tickets for the event securely via our online booking form or by sending a cheque (made payable to the Rangers Supporters' Trust) to:

The Rangers Supporters' Trust
c/o Direct Sharedeal
3rd Floor
Sterling House
20 Renfield Street
GLASGOW
G2 5AP

To WIN tickets, all you have to do is predict the finalists and the winner of this year's World Cup and email it to scottrst@hotmail.co.uk.

A winner will be randomly drawn from all those with the correct answer on Monday 10th July.

Roll on next Friday!!!

19 July 2006
Trust Expresses Outrage at Record and Mirror 'Smear'

Following the cancellation of the Bolton vs Rangers game scheduled for Tuesday 25 July on the advice of Greater Manchester Police, the Rangers Supporters' Trust strongly deplores today's inaccurate, sensationalist and deliberately provocative articles by Keith Jackson of the Daily Record and his counterpart in the Daily Mirror. Unlike professional, responsible journalists at the Daily Express and Evening Times who contacted both Greater Manchester Police and the Trust before going to print, The Record and The Mirror instead demonstrate classic traits of gutter journalism.

Ignoring the truth reported by the BBC and all other media outlets including The Sun; i.e. there are inadequate police numbers available to police the game - these newspapers instead chose to print unfounded propaganda in a futile attempt to smear the Rangers support.

They deliberately ignored the exemplary behaviour of Rangers fans at fixtures in Fulham, Ipswich, Bradford, Belfast and as recently as 1 May this year, when 13,000 Rangers fans went to a Bank Holiday game in Derby and were praised by Derbyshire Constabulary for their good behaviour. Instead, Keith Jackson referred to a game at Goodison Park more than 8 years ago where local hooligans rather than Rangers fans caused disorder. This is simply not acceptable.

We are therefore calling for a public apology to be made to the Rangers support by the journalists responsible. Should this not be forthcoming, the Trust will be asking Rangers Football Club to take the issue up with the publications responsible and we will independently pursue this matter via the Press Complaints Commission. The Trust will also give serious consideration to asking members to conduct a commercial boycott of these publications.

We also call on Bolton Wanderers FC to refund those Rangers fans now out of pocket due to their very late notice of this cancellation, given that they recently guaranteed the fixture would go ahead. The Trust warmly welcomes the move by Rangers FC to refund the money for tickets bought by fans.