The Athletic.

Hello, I'm Mark Chapman.

Welcome to the Business of Sport Pod on The Athletic.

Matt Slater with us as usual.

And our guest today is Stuart Robertson,

managing director of Scottish

Premiership Champions Glasgow Rangers. Rangers won their 55th title last year after financial

collapse in 2012, saw them have to climb their way up from the fourth division. So Stuart, we'll

start as we start with all our guests really, because it's a global audience.

So what's your history?

How have you got to the position that you are at the moment?

Well, my background's financial.

I start to attend as an accountant, a charter accountant.

I then worked with PWC for about eight years in corporate finance and moved into a small family office, small investment company. And the main

partner in that owned Mutherwell. And from the year, I became one of my projects, essentially.

Club had some restructuring issues I had to be through in early 2000s. I became a director

in Mutherwell. I ended up effective become the FDMD for a number of years and then

latterly not-exec. But I never ever saw my career leading to a career in football, I have to say,

in the early days. But the job at Rangers came about in 2015 when there was a, the current board

got control of the club and obviously been through the

travails that have been well documented over the years and I happened to know one of the

directors and just a conversation. Paul had actually phoned me asking for a reference for

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