Rangers director resigns in wake of offensive tweet controversy
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Version 0 of 1. Chris Graham has resigned as a director at Rangers days after he was accused of tweeting an offensive picture depicting the prophet Muhammad performing a sex act on a Star Wars character. The image appeared on Graham’s Twitter account and immediately led to Muslim leaders calling for Rangers to take action against the nonexecutive director, who was only appointed to the position on Tuesday following Dave King’s takeover at the club last week. A brief statement that appeared on Rangers’ website on Friday read: “Chris Graham has tendered his resignation as a Director of RIFC. This has been accepted by the Board.” The news comes just as a long-standing period of turmoil at Ibrox appeared to be calming down, with King’s intervention being followed by the appointment of Stuart McCall as manager. |