ADULTS NOW IN THE ROOM

Ex-chairman King relieved 'maturity' is back at Ibrox

- By Andy Newport

SAY what you like about the men who have run Rangers for the past decade, you can't fault their devotion to a club most have supported since they were wearing short trousers.

Tens of millions have been poured into a passion first developed as children.

The trouble is much of those huge sums from the boardroom have been squandered by a series of blunders verging on the schoolboy.

The job now for the new American regime in control at Ibrox is to return the Gers to the top of the class in Scotland.

And if there's one thing offering reassurance to former chairman Dave King, it's that the grown-ups are now in charge.

King was one of those boyhood supporters who gave his all and most certainly much of his fortune in the pursuit of getting Rangers back to the top.

But, having been born and raised in Glasgow, the Castlemilk native was as susceptible as any he shared the directors' table with of getting caught up amid the reactionary mindset of the larger support.

He saw how a bad night in Perth or Paisley could result in dire consequences for a manager.

But, with the mature heads of Andrew Cavenagh and his 49ers Enterprises partners in charge now, King hopes the days of boardroom anxiety are gone.

King who handed over his 14% stake in the club last week as the US consortium concluded a £75million takeover said: "I remember speaking to Andrew and he was astounded by the extent to which we won a game, we lost a game, and there was doom and gloom at board level.