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Back when the pipedream involved Portugal, Netherlands and Belgium it was at least exciting. But playing against teams from Ireland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden? Torpedo away!

There's a lot of matches before we get there but the following fixtures have been announced by Sky (and will obviously also be shown on RTV): Rangers v Hibs - Boxing Day at 1230. Rangers v Separate Entity - 2nd January at 1230. Hopefully it's a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I think he's just accepted the job.

If we had efficient referees we could do without a compliance officer

Sunday Times article on Kenyan youngster Andre Kamala who was at Rangers Academy last season.

From a commercial perspective it's a league with a combined population of around 30 million, which would make it the eighth largest in Europe. It wouldn't be as attractive as the others as they all operate in one economic area with one main language, this league would have 5 different economic areas, 3 in the EU, 2 outside, 5 different currencies and at a push 3 languages if we group the Swedish and Danish together. In four of these countries English football teams are the best supported club sides. Football isn't even the most popular sport in Ireland and none of their clubs attract any kind of significant support. It has the potential to be a stronger league than the SPFL financially and certainly it would be more competitive, but it'll still be miles behind the big 3 or 4 in Europe. It's not an easy sell.

They would receive an annual "Lifetime Achievement Award", in perpetuity, as that would be the least that they deserved. Of course, they would still fail to reach the Group Stages of any European Competition.

They used to be a reasonably good firm, but have evolved into ambulance chasers (forgetting about football side).

I still think this is an exciting prospect.

It'd be good to see a Union Flag flying over the Piggery.

A set of useless twats, in my experience.

what's to handover. Celtc good Rangers bad. You could cover it with a postit note.

St Cadoc's Youth Club isn't connected to the primary school, and I don't believe it's got close links with Celtic. Celtic Boys Club isn't demised, it's still going under the name of St Patrick's Sports Academy.

They're a business, not an ethics commune. They'll make a lot of money selling Newcastle United merchandise.