andy steel

'unbeknown'? Not surprisingly, my PC has placed a red line under this 'word'. I've just finished 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens...it appears the sun writers share a taste for obsolete Victorian terminology. How could Phil sign a deal with such a backwards, Imperialist newspaper? For shame!

I'm not sure I agree with all those points. But a victory over Phil is always worth celebrating.

Fancy doing a review? It must have Rangers related material in somewhere.

This a bit man-lovey, but I can't get enough of the way McKay moves. He just glides over the pitch. At 17, to have effortless athleticism on your side is a huge bonus; it gets him space, gives him time. And playing against knackered defences, like yesterday when he came on, means he can have that bit extra time to pick out a pass. The only question is, will he continue to develop, and I can see no reason why not. Whether it's with us, of course...

You can see why he approves so much of Mussolini's ideas. Good media value, but an arsehole.

Rangers 5 Elgin 1 Rangers 9 Kilmarnock 0 All that matters. Well done to our teams!

Oh well. Shame.

Shame there's been elections since, and having joined the SNP I rather thought I would vote for them. Let's have an accord - if you're posting, I will happily leave the site. Let me know.

Plus ca change. We're hardly the first group to find ourselves in this spot! It's all about societies, what they deem 'acceptable' and how you react to that.

Probably a mix of BBC Scotland being stuffed to the roofs with celtc types, and us handing them gifts on a plate on a regular basis.

Mr Steel votes SNP, not that I imagine many are interested. Right, with you now. My belief is that elites treat football fans on a sliding scale based on their numbers - 500 fans at a D3 game, nothing to worry about, 4,000 fans at an SPL game, increased police scrutiny and moaning if anything happens (like that guy who accused the ref of being racist, but then it turned out he was married to a Nigerian lady or somesuch); this things gets more attention in a 'tut tut, isn't football awful' context on middle class phone ins like call Kaye; and when you're looking at Old Firm size attendances, the reactionary nature really kicks in, with huge policing, restrictions on movement and behaviour, and now language. I can't say as I like it but I don't believe we have helped ourselves. To quote Jim Morrison 'they got the guns but we got the numbers'...boxing clever is the only way past someone pointing a gun at your head. That or abject surrender, which despite the desperate wishes of those who want us to be some Blue Borg, all conforming to the same political/religious mindset, and see any dissent as craven grovelling, none of us are up for. So I don't see us being treated any differently other than that we offer up open goals for the elites to kick us on a regular basis. Timmy is smarter on this front, no question.

No doubt Phil has blogged regularly on how he understands what Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne went through.

Not so! not for me anyway. I only object to being dug up for disagreeing with you. I have my view of Ally, and my reasons for them and am a bit fed up with being accused of blind faith, head/sand interface etc. It's hardly surprising when posters get grumpy at constantly being mildly insulted for the heinous crime of having a different opinion!

OK, where we would disagree on this is that there is a definite agenda against us and only us by what we might laughingly refer to as Scotland's intellectual elite. No question that there is one from the game and the sports media; but in the wider civic context, the point has been reached where Scotland just isn't willing to put up with the perceived behaviour of football fans en masse, not just blue ones. I feel it's a combination of fear at mass groupings on behalf of police forces, who hate that sort of thing, and an undoubted political element. The SNP are, you will know, a Nationalist party. That means they are hypersensitive to slights upon the nation and its image. What they want from football fans is the faux-jolly image of the Tartan Army, rather than the potentially aggressive club groupings. When our two fellow Bears decided to bring shame upon the Club by sending those parcels, we didn't just cross the line we went and shat all over it. Any sympathy we might have got from political circles went oot the windae when that happened...they did not appreciate the headlines. Having read, for years, about Manchester, and thinking 'That's funny! I walked to my brother-in-law's flat that night after the game, must have been about four miles, and saw not a single piece of trouble. I wonder where the rioting was?' I'm aware how unfair actions taken are, compared to actual behaviour. But unless you're suggesting something of a Peoples' Republic, where the usual elites with the usual fears are done away with, that's what we're left with. Long way of saying I don't think they are, I think they are just fed up with football for elitist and political reasons; and we haven't helped ourselves by our actions.

I don't understand, sorry.

You'd think they would rate their chances of giving us a doing on their own ground as being batter than a quick payday. No question that w're vulnerable when away from home - such is the stuff Forres legends would be made of. Fucking hope not, though.

Well, this will only be his downfall if our view of McGillivan is shared by others in the wider community.

I seem to be doing nothing but moaning about your posts this morning. But this is paranoiac. People who don't support Rangers - or ANY club - have every right to rise to 'positions of power'. Our society doesn't operate on football lines, or religious ones.

Agree x a million.

I'll be damned, finch! Of course. Obvious when you know, given the similarities between the languages. I wonder why, then, fink became a term of mild abuse in early 20th century America?

You fling anyone who disagrees into this camp and it's just dumb. People have various positions on Ally for various reasons but anyone who disagrees with the sack him view is automatically guilty of blind faith, head in the sand etc. Get a grip. Really spoiling the site for one user at least.

Fink! At last, a player whose name I recognise. dB, what does the word 'fink' mean?

Plus ca change - The more things change, the more they stay the same. FS's mantra, it seems.

It's their revenge over the SFA boycott. PS: No another fecking cup!

Fair enough. Nevertheless, a shocking performance which absolutely must be improved upon - as I'm sure Perry knows better than me.