alexscottislegend

Fans on here complain when Strachan doesnt select Rangers players like wallace, then when he does, they don't want them to play!

Griffiths is injured with a hamstring, though he might be saving himself for the OF game. Tierney dunno, but Forrest is still in the squad.

In 2004, the club was re-established by a group of fans as 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. The renewed side had to start in the lowest league eleventh-tier 3. Kreisklasse, Staffel 2 in 2004–05. Even so, they continued to receive solidly enthusiastic fan support: their game against Eintracht Großdeuben's second team in the Leipzig Zentralstadion on 9 October 2004 broke the world record for lower-league attendance with an astounding 12,421 spectators in the stands. I wonder if they have to put up with the 'new club' nonsense that we get? Clubs are dissolved and re-formed all the time.

You're thinking of Ryan Gauld, the 'mini-Messi'. He's now on loan to a top-flight Portuguese club. Think he's less likely to make it than Burke. I know there are late developers but if can't play by the time you're 19 you never will.

He did get the sending off right though! And for me that first penalty shout from Sutton was nothing of the sort (Hill handball).

Being outpaced by Kris Boyd - Kris Boyd! - and then him scoring with his weaker foot says it all. Bring on MOH for Kenny, he's not enjoying this game.

n recent years, Palestinian leaders, writers and refugees have spoken out in the Palestinian media, blaming the Arab leadership for the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. According to these accounts, and contrary to the Palestinian myth that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were deported by Israel in 1948, the vast majority of the Arab exodus from Israel was voluntary, and the result of orders by the Arab leadership. Well that is the first time I have heard that view promulgated it is true. I will research it but I object to your spin on my view to make it sound, 'Israeli bad, Palestinian good'; in truth I reject both nationalist perspectives in favour of what is best for the working class of both communities. That includes supporting those Israeli workers who are consistently struggling for union rights. My wife studied Hebrew theology and we met people from the synagogue who were implacably opposed to the prevailing orthodoxy in their country. Matters are further complicated by the fact that according to them the really religious Jews were persecuted over there. Not forgetting the thousands of Palestinian Jews who were settled long before 1948 and who were ostensibly bothering nobody.

[b Some of the Zionists would wish exactly that. If, as you say, you are on the left on most issues then you would surely appreciate that the concept of imperialism and post-imperialism is the cause of most of the world's woes today. Yet you want to pin the blame on the Palestinians (who are not just Hamas) whose representatives have fragmented and split on tactics many times, including Hamas itself. That doesn't alter the fact that an artificially created state caused, it is reckoned, 700,00 to flee and retreat into a horde of refugee camps which are still there today. As for Egypt, I fully supported the Arab Spring but that's for another thread.

Think the point to be inferred is that maybe it was a huge mistake to create the state of Israel in the first place. The British were instrumental in setting up the Balfour Declaration.

Thanks for that dB. It has long been a bugbear of mine when we get called 'Glasgow.' My contention is that we were famous enough not to need the geographical soubriquet. I could accept it if Arsenal were known as London Arsenal or even Woolwich Arsenal but anglo commentators never see the need. Surely no one could confuse us with Berwick Rangers or Stafford Rangers? Pub quiz question: which English club contains the name of 2 Scottish clubs in its own name? (Queens Park Rangers).

I wasn't aware that it was a numbers game. If, as you claim, the ethnic cleansing wasn't very good (!) then how many deaths would it take to make it so? Don't think there were actually that many deaths in the Highland Clearances, numerically speaking, but if the term had been invented then, to me for one, that was an early example of the doctrine. Certainly, imperialism had the same aims then as in Israel. But, since you are so keen on data: The Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem have counted 565 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces since January 2009 (that is, after the end of the Gaza massacre known as “Operation Cast Lead”, which cost 1,400 Palestinian and 13 Israeli lives), while 28 Israeli civilians and 10 Israeli security personnel have been killed over the same period. Again, these figures show who is the oppressed and who the oppressor. The kidnapping and killing of three teenage settlers What is being presented as a sequence of events leading to retaliatory measures on both sides has now erupted into a crisis, which could be getting out of control. The Israeli army is in the process of mobilising 40,000 reservists and Netanyahu is threatening to send the army into Gaza, although just a few thousands have been mobilised so far. If that were the case, the number of casualties would definitely exponentially increase on both sides. But whatever the Israeli government does, this has nothing to do with concerns for its own citizens' safety. To spill more Palestinian blood and even to restore a direct Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, as some are demanding, would simply increase the determination in a new generation of Arab youth to fight the occupation with all means possible. The kidnapping and killing of three teenage settlers on June 12 by a rogue group in the West Bank allegedly close to Hamas ended the uneasy truce reached in 2012. This was simply the incident that was exploited to raise the level of tension. In other circumstances, this would have been seen as yet another tragic event in the decades-long conflict. This time, however, it was used as an excuse to launch a hysterical media campaign around the search for the kidnapped teenagers. I prefer to defer to opinions of well-respected intellectual giants like Asimov and Chomsky who cannot be said to be anti-semitic.

They've had money in the past and bought poorly. Leicester City have given me huge confidence and optimism. Being underdogs suits us I believe.

But you can say exactly the same about the Zionist concept. If you seek to ethnically cleanse a people of their own land why be surprised if they want to sweep you away?

I dunno, you may be right there, we'll not know for sure. Perhaps protesting outside the stadium may sort out the sheeples from the real peoples ! BTW You will hate me for this but for the good of Scottish football I hope Keltic get through. Dont care how much money they get, i am absolutely confident we can wrest the SPL from them; we have a better manager and better midfield. How good would it be for us to wipe the floor with the mega-rich CL squad?

Was trying to address the thorny question of politics and sport not trying to create a sense of 'whataboutery' No direct link for Keltic as a club but the fact is a team from Israel was playing in my country so i can see why some might see it as a chance to make a legitimate protest. Re RFC being thrown out of Europe, I too would be enraged as the singing of The Billy Boys is innocuous by any sane comparison. Do you not think there's a difference between heritage/identity and current political practice? I'd like to see us fly the Saltire as well as the Union flag; wonder what Eufa would say about that?

But EUFA needs to be consistent in the application of that rule, like referees who often are inconsistent. As reported elsewhere what about Basque flags and ETA for example? It's sad that sport has to be the conduit for political protest but sometimes you have to take a stand. I remember being furious when Scotland played in Chile in a stadium where shortly before thousands were murdered by Pinochet's generals.

Well in that case try empathising with the working classes of both sides who are victims of the divide and rule policy of imperialists and nation states everywhere.

That's what the mainstream media wish you to believe;Hamas have proposed a two state solution for Palestine in the past and has been rejected by Israel. You could not be more wrong to equate anti Zionism and anti semitism. My wife studied Judaism and synagogue friends of hers told her in no uncertain terms just how repressive Zioinists really are. In 2011 Israeli workers demonstrated for basic union rights. i would support them as I would Palestinian workers.

Neighbours who have been there for 2000 years who are suddenly ethnically cleansed when a people who never had a country decide they want one of their own. Not my view but that of Isaac Asimov, science friction writer and Jew who refused to rejoice in 1948. Noam Chomsky calls Israel a 'terrorist state' and he is Jewish. Some folk on here need to avoid using terms like 'scum' when referring to Palestine and not applying them to Israel. But then our precious government supports the Zionist state and calls anyone who opposes it 'anti-semitic': dangerous, easy labelling which assumes that nation states are never in the wrong.

Wallace has not been chosen because he is a left back and that is by far our strongest position; no reflection on him.

We don't have any choice here. Wilson instead of Greer? You have to tell us who is better despite Greer's age. Italy dont forget did quite well with a back 3 well into their thirties.

Some bit-part player. Kenny much-maligned. Don't forget it was he who set us on our way in the cup defeat of Keltic.