Exclusive - Conference chairman Brian Lee refuses to close the door on Rangers

Conference chairman Brian Lee has refused to close the door on a possible move south for Rangers.

The Scottish club’s chief executive Charles Green told talkSPORT last week that he would be prepared to quit Scotland and relocate his club to England if plans for a reform of the game north of the border goes ahead.

An exclusive talkSPORT poll has revealed clubs in the Blue Square Premier Division would be in favour of the switch, and Lee insists it would not be impossible.

He told Keys and Gray: “On Monday [January 21] we have a mid-season meeting of clubs so that is a topic for conversation. It’s up to the clubs to make rule changes.

“There are one or two problems, of course. It’s up to FIFA whether a club can change countries or not, so that’s the first issue. And the second, and probably the most important, is the problem it would create with promotion and relegation and having an uneven number of teams.

“It would be wrong if the Football League would not take Rangers as part of the promotion and relegation system. Otherwise they would be in the Conference keeping out a team who might have the wherewithal to go higher in the pyramid.

“But they are not insurmountable problems. You will have to have the co-operation of a lot of different organisations to make it possible, but where there is a will there is a way.”

talkSPORT polled 14 of the 24 clubs in the Blue Square Premier League to ask if they would support a move to introduce Rangers into the league. These are the results…

Barrow – MAYBE
Braintree Town – YES
Ebbsfleet – MAYBE
Forest Green - NO
Gateshead – NO
Hyde - MAYBE
Macclesfield – YES
Mansfield – YES
Newport - NO
Nuneaton – YES
Southport - YES
Stockport - YES
Tamworth – YES
Wrexham - YES