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They did the same with Sky to get them to agree to cut the season short year of COVID. As a result gave them a new 5 year deal at a heavily discounted rate. How these clowns get to run our game I have no idea.

He seems to like the city!

There are so many ways to signal support for genuine anti-racism campaigns, without kneeling to copy a marxist rip-off mob. I only hope football teams will stop this empty virtue signalling soon.

Agreed, there is something about his need to "educate" the watching public that is grating with many as well as his lack of tactical nouce. Get up off your knees and play football, thats all any of the watching public want, not some half arsed political virtue signalling that lost its meaning over a year ago.

Yip, unfortunately Andy is very ill and it's just a matter of when not if now. Can't remember such a bad period for legends passing...

I think he's referring to Parks being the separate entity in this case.

Bridgebuilding and bygones left as bygones not on the agenda, then? I can't say I disagree. The Club,however, should, at least, remain open to suggestions/approaches from any other disaffected or victimised Clubs, or engage where it sees a clear benefit/advantage to do so. The statement from Parks is really about Parks, subtext: 'You can fuck with Rangers but don't you dare fuck with my family and our business'. On the other hand, I suppose that a separate entity can go in a little harder.

Is that not fake? There was a tweet from Romano (?) with this link that was fake.

Davie Wilson was never underrated by anyone who saw him play.

Alfredo being linked with Seville in various outlets this morning. Would be a good move for him.

Tell him he won't play? Can a player at his stage in his career afford to spend a season not playing? There may be reasons why we wouldn't want to take that approach but it's a possibility.

May we take it that the SPFL will meet Rangers' reasonable legal fees and expenses, given that it pursued the matter, perhaps vexatiously, or, even, dare I say, maliciously? If so, the SPFL has chosen a very expensive way to make a fool of itself. Even if both sides meet their own costs, which I think unlikely, it still looks like a rather wasteful exercise for the league. In any event, the member clubs will surely question the Board and the hired help over this profligacy.

Scott, McMillan, Millar, Brand and Wilson - that forward line still trips off the tongue. Always an under-rated player I thought, maybe because he wasn't 'flashy.'

Opinions are fine - I'm merely asking you substantiate it. Goldson has been a key contributor to a league title, a Scottish Cup and a European final in the last two seasons whilst hardly missing a game. Yes, we want more and his form can be sketchy at times (perhaps down to chopping and changing his central defensive partner) but I've yet to hear anyone offer a better, proven alternative.

Cinch have more publicity out of this than they could ever have hoped for.

Looks like a determined effort to disguise what is essentially a humiliating climb down by the SPFL. Wonder what they had to offer Cinch to get this outcome?

Clear win for Rangers. Under the terms of the revised cinch contract, Rangers are no longer required to participate by providing the sponsorship inventory that they have so far not provided.... ....delivers the same level of financial support to Scottish football, whilst providing additional SPFL media assets to cinch to compensate for loss of Rangers-related rights

and prey you don't get injured or dropped. There is a reason so few do it.

OBITUARY Davie Wilson, footballer, was born on January 10, 1937, in Glasgow. He died on June 14, 2022, from Alzheimer’s-linked illness, aged 85 Davie Wilson obituary Scotland and Rangers great who played in the famous 2-1 defeat of England at Wembley in 1963 Wednesday June 15 2022, 5.00pm, The Times Wilson at Highbury in May 1963 for the Jack Kelsey testimonial match against Arsenal. Wilson scored 159 goals for Rangers in 382 appearances BARRATTS/EMPICS SPORT Even into his early eighties, Davie Wilson kept to a strict diet and fitness regimen which he claimed had been the secret to his long, healthy life. A Rangers and Scotland great of the 1960s, Wilson was able to say in 2011: “Here I am 50 years after playing for Rangers against Fiorentina in the 1961 European Cup Winners Cup final, and I am exactly the same weight now — nine stone — as I was back then.” He never touched a drop of alcohol in his life. Wilson, who has died at the age of 85 from conditions linked to Alzheimer’s disease, participated in some memorable moments in football, not least one night in June 1963 in the Bernabéu in Madrid when Scotland beat Spain 6-2. It is the sort of result that Scotland fans today can scarcely believe. Spain took the lead that night but a Scotland team comprising of Wilson, Ian St John, a young Willie Henderson, Billy McNeill and a swaggering Jim Baxter duly put their hosts to the sword. Wilson also played in Scotland’s famous 2-1 defeat of England at Wembley in 1963, the game in which “the crack” of his team-mate Eric Caldow’s broken leg was said to have been heard across the pitch. Wilson, a left-winger, was forced to fill in as left-back following Caldow’s departure, and showed equal ingenuity as a defender. Of those Scotland conquests of Spain, England and others, Wilson told The Times in 2016: “They were special times — what a Scotland team we had back then. You’re talking guys like Denis Law, Jimmy Baxter, St John, players of that ilk. Sometimes we felt no one could touch us.” Born in 1937 in Newton, the old mining community of south Glasgow, Wilson was one of four children — Davie, Nan, Grace and Linda — born to Thomas and Margaret Wilson. His father was a miner, his mother a home-maker, and 16-year-old Davie had begun training to be template-maker when his football career was in its infancy. Wilson was raised amid an austere Protestant puritanism. “I’ve never had a drop of alcohol in my life — we weren’t all Jimmy Baxters,” he said. “I never fancied the taste of it. My father didn’t drink and nor did my mother. “Whenever we won anything at Rangers, and they poured champagne into the cup, I put it up to my lips as if I was drinking it, but I never did.” It was as a Rangers player — at first earning £12 a week but then rising to a seismic £45 a week — that Wilson made his name. Blond-haired and willowy, standing 5ft 6in and with tremendous sleight of foot, he had been rejected by a number of clubs for being too small and frail, before Rangers spotted him playing for Baillieston Juniors in 1956 and had no hesitation in signing him. At Ibrox, as his career began to unfold, Wilson would go to the front steps of the stadium at every home game and hand two match tickets to his doting father, mired in the grim mining industry but now marvelling at his son’s career. Wilson had scored for Scotland against England in the 2-0 win at Hampden in 1962, played and won again against England a year later at Wembley, and also featured for Rangers in the 1961 Cup Winners Cup final, lost 4-1 over two legs to Fiorentina. On March 17, 1962 he set a Rangers scoring record which stands to this day, when he bagged six in a 7-1 rout of Falkirk. Wilson won four league titles, five Scottish Cups and two league cups with the Ibrox club SNS GROUP It was during those early days of his career, with his eye-catching talent so obvious, that Everton, then one of the giants of English football, came in for him. Everton were prepared to make the then 24-year-old Wilson the first £100,000 player in British football. Had he gone, Wilson would have tripled his salary, but a combination of his love for Rangers, and closeness to his father, meant he stayed. His Rangers career became a personal crock of gold. In 11 trophy-laden years Wilson won four league titles, five Scottish Cups and two league cups. He also, between 1960 and 1965, earned 22 Scotland caps. Life wasn’t all sweetness and light, however. While his football was taking off, Wilson and his wife, Avril, suffered the death of their first child, who died just days before birth due to an anaesthetic accident. The couple did go on to have two children: Sheena, who is a carer, and David, who works in the IT industry. He is survived by Avril, his children, four grandchildren and by two sisters, Grace and Linda. Symon had decided to swap Wilson for Dundee United’s dribbling Swede, Orjan Persson, though quickly saw the error of his ways. “I’ve made the biggest mistake of my life,” Wilson claims Symon said to him on the phone a week later. Wilson replied, “Well, it’s too late now”. He played for four more years and became a fans’ favourite at Tannadice. Following the end of his playing career in 1973 Wilson successfully managed Dumbarton for a period, and after that took on a meet-and-greet ambassadorial role at Ibrox. He managed his pigeon lofts in Newton for more than 60 years. More recently Wilson grew interested in faith and became a churchgoer. But his renowned physical and mental fitness finally gave way to dementia linked to Alzheimer’s, a condition his family are convinced was linked to his football career. Davie Wilson, footballer, was born on January 10, 1937, in Glasgow. He died on June 14, 2022, from Alzheimer’s-linked illness, aged 85 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/davie-wilson-obituary-0v3b75wpp

Southgate has made so many really bad errors of judgement that it's a mystery why he has had so much popular support for so long. He's blessed with so many wonderful players that it must take a particular talent to make such a guddle of it.

If I were a player I would always run down my contract you owe them nothing as you have fulfilled the contract . And pick up a whopping signing on fee from a new club .

I see that the National Party XI scored a loin stirring victory over a 10 man (then a 9 man) Armenian side, a whole 92nd in the FIFA rankings, btw, in Yerevan, ie away from home. Clarke is a hero, all is right with the world, and the countrylooks forward eagerly to the World Cup in November, where there are scalps to be taken. What? Clarke fucked up qualification? Say it ain't so, bro!

Agreed. We have to sell high value players who are not going to sign a new contract. Goldson was different as his resale value wasn't as high but Aribo shouldn't be allowed to run down his contract.

Have fond memories of Davy--the day he ran into me when he scored V Third Lanark(was sitting on pitch due to crowd overflow) and the night I had him in my flat when he was selling insurance--a true gentleman and legend. RIP Davy.

My user name suggests otherwise but Davie Wilson was the best all round winger I ever saw for Rangers. Read his book if you can get it.