Craig Whyte sauntered down Edmiston Drive with his associates like something out of a movie.
But former Rangers director Paul Murray knew something was seriously wrong just by looking at him.
It was 2011, and Rangers were on the verge of sealing a third league title on the spin under legendary boss Walter Smith.
White had shaken hands on a deal with David Murray for just a pound – a transaction that would prove to be ruinous.
And for Murray, the man in an ill-fitting suit and plastic looking shoes was clearly not someone who carried the wealth required to rebuild Rangers.
He told the Daily Record: “We were playing Hearts at Ibrox. He and his advisers had walked down Edmiston Drive like something out of Reservoir Dogs. You know, Mr Orange and Mr White.
“He came into the boardroom and I remember looking at him in disbelief. The pointy, plastic shoes. The ill-fitting suit. This should have been the biggest day of his life.
“Had it been me and I had just bought Glasgow Rangers I would have made sure I looked immaculate. This guy looked like he’d been dressed off the peg at M&S. And he was trying to make the world believe he was a billionaire who was here to save the club?
"Nothing about it made any kind of sense. I felt I simply had to do something.”
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