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I gathered that. However, the way you call it is disrespectful to anyone who disagrees with you. Ironic, considering that's what you're complaining about.

Quite the diplomat, aren't you? Good to see the standards of other forums making their way here.

You're not getting away with that - if you stick a thread with no connection to football in the football section of a website, you're going to get people responding positively and negatively. Says nothing about you 'loyal guys', nor anyone else. Get off your high horse.

Good stuff. Well dug up that FFer. Doubtless an Orwell Prize awaits. As an aside to this, I was wondering this morning, as I munched my roll and slice, whether Hearts were charged with bringing the game into disrepute when one of their fans assaulted Neil Lennon. I feel sure they must have been; what was the punishment, one wonders, and was it equal to those facing us? Given Hearts are neither banned from the SC, suspended nor expelled, one must assume any punishment they received was less. Physical violence is more acceptable than not paying tax to the SFA. An odd situation.

What the fuck is that lunatic up to? This whole farrago will only be over to me when Craig Whyte is doing his porridge.

<shrug> if I wanted to know what the yer man thought, I'd subscribe to his website.

Sayonara. The Great Salim offers 10000% more than Little can ever do. If Andy wants to walk then fair enough, cheers for the goals and best of luck. But you're so not Rangers supermarket.com it's unreal.

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Ah come on, proper football. Just coz he's called Brendan.

No loss to the country. His 'face of rage' reaction to a BBC Scotland (!) reporter suggesting they hadn't played very well in the League Cup final showed the level of his maturity.

Most certainly not aimed at you. Aimed at all those who insist their baggage does not exclude anyone, as long as they keep their mouths shut at the game and don't post differing opinions in threads.

Inclusive enough for ya?

"It is the Club's view that the matter should in fact have been referred back to the original tribunal which imposed the transfer ban because the appellate tribunal in its written judgement made clear the view they held on the appropriate alternative sanction to be imposed in the event that the transfer ban was successfully challenged." Can someone translate this for me? Baffled.

Then again, we'd be in better shape if Harold Shipman had taken us over.

Oh please...oh please....

Yes, the legal profession are noted for publicly crossing swords. Much as it would be good, should it come to a clash between the two lords, they'll close ranks, imo.

Until the club comes out with a statement actually telling people who think like that to get lost, we'll always be lumbered with them. They won't just naff off.

Been a reality check, these last 7 days. Player of the year - Mulgrew. Catastrophic against the USA. Manager of the year - Lennon. Not even considered for middling English jobs. No surprise to me that Scots football is in the crapper, but hopefully this may temper some of the more outre reporting.

At teatime on Friday next I will disappear into a Euro shaped hole. Can't wait!! Two games a night! Mostly of top quality!! And I won't have to look at Rob McLean or Steven Craigan!!! Hopefully Pat Nevin is there, though, he's good.

SHUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT UUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry.

It won't be vindictive, it will be our fault for using the law in order to reverse an illegal decision. It's a fucked up universe for Bears atm, that's the truth. I know I'm a poncy literary wank, but there's a book called 'Erewhon' which depicts a mad society in which the ill are criminalised, while criminals are viewed with sympathy and given treatment. Might be by Samuel Butler, dunno. That's what it feels like just now to me. Heard a good one today - I have the radio in the khazi so that I can, appropriately enough, listen to BBC Scotland when firing out the dreck. This afternoon, the ginger cretin from the north, Jim Spence, gave it as his considered opinion that Rangers had lost all sympathy by their legal actions. Indeed, he's right! We should have ridden that wave of goodwill and help that flooded in when we got in trouble, shouldn't we? The same station then brazenly berated UEFA / FIFA for not doing enough to battle racism, bigotry etc, but what can you expect from the likes of Platini etc. So, on one hand, they must hammer Rangers for using the law; on the other, they are ineffectual and corrupt. I wonder if they know how ridiculous they sound?

I have trouble believing anyone in his shoes would post such a thing. Are we certain he favourited that? A Tim I enjoy annoying on Fb claims it's a hoax, which is what I thought at first.

That would be good (a Cup ban I mean), but I can't see anything in the book (not that I've read it, mind you...) which prevents a new appeal panel discounting the verdict of the original one; indeed, they pretty much have to start afresh. Yes, it would look chronically hypocritical to say initially that (say) expulsion would be too harsh then turn around an expel us, but we are dealing with a body (Scottish football) which is utterly riddled with hypocrisy from top to bottom. The only question is whether they are riddled with stupidity as well. Given the number of head honchos who view the law as 'dangerous', I fear I'm not confident on that one, either.

Well, you're absolutely right. There's no difference between Scotland and England in terms of attitude. But the comparisons have been with Netherlands, Scandinavia, France. These countries do see the bigger picture, but since we in the UK can't, I'm not sure how much use comparisons are.

Going to be interesting how the Pacific Quay CSC square their breathless pursuit of FIFA to do something, anything to Rangers, with BBC UK's investigations into their corrupt practices. One hand says you're beastly rotters, the other panders slavishly to anyone who'll put the boot into the Bears. If ever an example was needed to highlight the appalling lack of objectivity of BBC Scotland, this is it. And as long as we are obliged by law to fund their chronic bias against Rangers, they must be held to account. I think an actual step, a solid, concrete act, must be to involve MPs. They will not want to; but information regarding practices within that bunch need to be examined. And MPs who refuse to investigate misuse of public funds are leaving themselves wide open come the next election.