Chris Graham - Follow We Will: The Fall and Rise of Rangers

COLIN ARMSTRONG is a lifelong Rangers supporter and a former columnist for both the Rangers News and the Rangers match-day programme. He contributed to the book Ten Days That Shook Rangers (Fort, 2005) and has written extensively on the subject of Rangers for other publications including When Saturday Comes and The Rangers Standard . Born in Glasgow, he now lives in Falkirk with his wife, Shona, and their children, Connor and Sophie.

IAIN DUFF is an award-winning journalist with almost twenty years of experience writing for publications in both England and Scotland. He joined Glasgows Evening Times as a news reporter in 1995 and two years later became the papers chief reporter at the age of 25. The same year he won the prestigious UK Press Gazette Scoop of the Year award and was nominated as Scotlands young journalist of the year. He later joined the Press Association where he was Scottish editor for six years. His books include Follow on: Fifty Years of Rangers in Europe (Fort, 2006) and Temple of Dreams: The Changing Face of Ibrox (DB Publishing, 2008).

DAVID EDGAR was the spokesman for the Rangers Supporters Trust from 2005 to 2010, during which time he campaigned on a number of issues regarding the stewardship of the club under Sir David Murray. He played an active role in speaking out against what many Rangers fans saw as unflattering coverage in the mainstream media. His book on Rangers over the last 30 years 21st Century Blue: Being a Bear in the Modern World (DB Publishing, 2010) is a funny and often controversial look at the club throughout an unforgettable era. He is currently the host of Heart and Hand the Rangers Podcast , a light-hearted weekly look at Scottish Football.

W STEWART FRANKLIN is co-founder of The Rangers Standard , a former Rangers Supporters Trust board member and co-owner of Gersnet.co.uk. He has been taking an active part in the Rangers supporting community for several years. In addition to administrating his own site, Stewart has written articles for STV Sport and The Herald as well as appearing on TV and radio. A Rangers season ticket holder of 15 years, he can be found bouncing away beside the rest of the Blue Order every other Saturday.

JOHN DC GOW is a freelance writer who is a co-founder of The Rangers Standard and a regular contributor to ESPN on Scottish football and Rangers FC . He has contributed to football magazines such as the Away End and non-football current affairs magazine Scottish Review . He is particularly interested in studying sectarianism, both in ending the backward form of hatred and in how it relates to freedom of speech, censorship and Rangers.

CHRIS GRAHAM is a co-founder of The Rangers Standard and writer for Seventy2 magazine and The Copland Road Organization ( CRO ). He has made numerous appearances on Scotland Tonight and has also appeared on Newsnight Scotland , Reporting Scotland , STV News and The Rising (a Rangers TV documentary) to discuss a variety of Rangers-related issues. He has appeared on BBC Radio, written about Rangers for the Scotland on Sunday and made guest appearances on Rangers podcasts. A season ticket holder at Ibrox, he was part of the Rangers Supporters Trust campaign to encourage fan participation in the Rangers share issue.

ROSS EJ HENDRY is a lifelong supporter of Rangers FC. He lives in Toronto, Canada and is a member of the Toronto Central Rangers Supporters Club. He is a standing member of the We Are The People Podcast which was established in 2008 and was the first podcast fully dedicated to the trials and triumphs of Rangers FC. He is currently a director with a global company specialising in brand and commercial development, route to market optimisation and installation of brand/market combinations.

DAVID KINNON is a Scottish Chartered Accountant, licensed insolvency practitioner and Johnstone Smith Professor of Accountancy within the University of Glasgow Business School. His professional experience covers board-level positions within listed and private-equity backed companies. For over 20 years he has advised on business reorganisation and financial restructuring matters, working internationally, based in London. Of the many great Rangers players seen over years of supporting the Club, including as a debenture holder from the Club Deck, Richard Gough and Brian Laudrup are his all-time favourites.

ALASDAIR McKILLOP is a co-founder of The Rangers Standard and writer for Seventy2 magazine. He is a regular contributor to the online current affairs magazine Scottish Review where he writes about sport and politics. He is a contributor to Bigotry, Football and Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

GAIL RICHARDSON is a popular blogger and prominent member of the online Rangers community. She is a member of the Rangers Supporters Trust which promotes fan ownership. A lifelong Rangers fan, she attended her first game at Ibrox when she was six years old.

CALVIN SPENCE was previously the Deputy Northern Ireland Secretary of the British Medical Association. His expertise lies in the field of Employment Law, Industrial Relations and Human Resources, and although retired, he continues to provide management consultancy services to General Practitioners and Hospital Trusts within the Northern Ireland Health & Social Care system. A Rangers fan for over 38 years, he continues to travel from Belfast to watch the team. He is a regular contributor to Rangers Media and The Rangers Standard .

RICHARD WILSON was born in Glasgow and spent almost 10 years at The Sunday Times Scotland , as deputy sports editor, then staff sports writer. In 2002, he won the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for best young sports writer. In 2003, at the Scottish Press Awards, he was named Sports Writer of the Year and he has regularly been nominated in the Sports Feature Writer of the Year category. He now writes extensively about football, and occasionally boxing and golf, for The Herald and Sunday Herald and is the author of Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams The Old Firm (Canongate, 2012).

Follow We Will

The Fall and Rise of Rangers

First published 2013

eBook published 2013

ISBN (print): 978-1-908373-68-7

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-909912-00-7

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To Beverley, Amira and Ziara courage, inspiration and love provided for on a daily basis. Also for my parents, William and Sheena I could not have asked for better guidance. Finally in remembrance of my brother Ian hugely missed but never forgotten.

Stewart Franklin

I dedicate this book to Jessica and Harry who I love very much. Also love and thanks to my parents, Maureen and Hendry, my sister Mary, big Iain and wee Iain, Murdy, Christine, Robert, Lisa, Frances and my Gran.

John DC Gow

To Siobhan and Archie for their love and patience. Also to my parents for a lifetime of good advice, love and support.

Chris Graham

To Natalie and my parents Carol and Graham for everything and with love always. And to my granda Dan McKillop truly one of the Clydes finest.