Callum Davidson reveals why Queen’s Park okayed Rangers’ Hampden move from Rangers’ temporary move to Hampden. Additionally, he thinks that the Glasgow club’s transfer will enable them to advance to this year’s Champions League group stages.
the championship group After the new pitch that was installed in the summer had had time to settle in, Queen’s Park, the home league team managed by the former St Johnstone manager, was scheduled to play its home games at the iconic Mount Florida site this season. But after discussions with the SFA and SPFL last month, they decided to stay at The City Stadium, previously Lesser Hampden, for the foreseeable future so that Rangers, whose renovation of the Copland Stand at Ibrox has been delayed, can play there. Ex-internationalist Davidson from Scotland emphasized that Queen’s Park had been pleased to host Rangers, who had thought about relocating to Murrayfield in Edinburgh, and listed the reasons the aspirational second division team came to the rescue in
Rangers’ temporary relocation to Hampden, according to Callum Davidson, will be advantageous for Scottish football as a whole. He also hopes that the Glasgow club’s transfer will help them qualify for the Champions League group stages this year.
He think it is brilliant that we could help,” he said yesterday at the launch of a new gambling harm prevention programme that is being delivered to players, staff and supporters at all 42 senior clubs as part of the new SPFL title sponsorship deal with William Hill.
“Obviously, we want to help the big clubs, we want to help Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen. But we want to help any club really. Fortunately, we are in a position at Queen’s Park where we can do so.
“Football is quite fragile on the money side and hopefully Rangers can get full houses when they come here for European games and what have you. It is much better for Scottish football if that is the case, far better than them travelling 30 or 40 miles away to get a game.
I am delighted that Queen’s Park and the people behind the scenes here have managed to help Rangers. If it had been Celtic we would have done exactly the same thing.”
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