Profile: Alastair Johnston: Bluenose with the Golden Touch

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ALASTAIR Johnston has three loves: golf, Rangers and making money. The 61-year-old Glaswegian has spent the past 37 years concentrating on the golf as a key player in Mark McCormack's all- pervasive behemoth agency International Management Group. Now, following his close friend Sir David Murray's decision to step down as chairman of Rangers, the famously bluenosed businessman has an opportunity to indulge his other sporting passion. Making money, though, remains a constant.

For many men, taking on the chairmanship of an institution such as Rangers Football Club would be a daunting proposition. Yet Johnston is not most men. At one stage, shortly after he had been named as the new head of the GBP 1.4 billion IMG after McCormack's death in 2004, he was identified by Golf Digest magazine as the fourth most powerful man in golf. While the Ibrox role brings an intensity and profile that even golf's top jobs cannot rival, Johnston has been a sporting master of the universe for so long that he has little doubt he will rise to the challenge.

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Profile: Alastair Johnston: Bluenose with the Golden Touch

"If I get a knock, it's that I'm a little arrogant, but that is IMG in general and comes with the territory," he said when he first became a Rangers board member in 2004. "I'm very capable of being a jerk or an asshole, but I know that you don't have to be that way to make a lot of money, Arnold Palmer taught me that. I'd like to think that my...

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