SCOTTISH football chiefs are forcing Rangers to start again as a pub team following their financial difficulties.
Rangers will relocate to a flat-roofed council estate boozer as their new base of operations, and recruit players from the local tower blocks by enticing them out of the stairwells with a football covered in smack.
Early scouting trips have uncovered a promising 19-year-old who will train for eight hours at a time and is equipped with a ferociously tenacious tackle so long as hes given a bottle of Buckfast and a tube of Uhu at the end of the day.
SFA spokesman Tom Logan said: This could be a fresh new start for the club if it turns out they have a better quiz team than their football side that could be the direction they end up heading in.
Given that most of the kids in Glasgow University are called things like Tara and Gideon rather than Janey or Wee Fucka thats doubtful but, yknow, dare to dream.
Rangers new pub, The Red Hand & Luther, was bought with the proceeds of selling off Ibrox to a consortium of Celtic fans who intend to turn it into the worlds largest urinal. The pubs manager, Bampot, will take control of the clubs day to day affairs after ousting Ally McCoist with the help of a pool cue.
Their first fixture of the new season will be against The Popes Head, a rival pub located 50 feet from their new home across a stretch of road the United Nations have deemed the most dangerous piece of tarmac outside of Afghanistan.
Logan added: Rangers could soon be back amongst the big names of Scottish football provided they get themselves a really good physio and some comprehensive fire insurance.