26th of foot

Apparently, Kelvinside Academy. Of course, it is Kelviinside Academy. The only school that offers former pupils access to the school villa in Costa Rica(no extradition treaty with the UK).

Pass the hat around your Hutchesons old Boys' including Humza and Anas - I am sure you will receive the necessary dosh to buy Rangers, with enough remaining for a slap up nosh at Tunnocks. The next time you attend the annual Hutchie Pedalo Regatta at Hogganfield Loch, please chib Craig Whyte.

Martin Bain climbed the greasy pole by using Nick Peel for the necessary leverage. Sir Duped gave him the nod to prompt newly appointed Chair, John McClelland and ensure he adhered absolutely to the rails laid down by Sir Duped. You are correct, he did successfully manage down the debt, I seem to remember he had it down to £18 million? We did have fun with Martin - those advertising hoardings immediately outside his office window adorned with invitations to join the RST - the BHS Catalogue photos of the then male model, Martin Bain in his pyjamas(looked very Andrew Ridgely) and - Martin gave a Sunday broadsheet interview where he told of spending all his down time, hillwalking. At our next meeting I asked if the hillwalking interfered with his munro bagging? The ensuing delicious silence went on forever.

"cheated and hoodwinked", says Big Dick. PQ Productions went into overdrive at the weekend. A nostalgic grip on the comfort blanket had them doing analysis of Saturday's Premiership matches over two days with Motherwell's Chief of Coaching, Richard Foster on Saturday evening's Sportscene and, Motherwell's Gaffer, Stuart Kettlewell on Sunday's Sportsound. The weekend's football began at Fir Park with Rangers the visitors. VAR had two decisions, 'Well's first goal and Sakala's contribution in the build up to Rangers third. The lines were drawn and both goals stood as legitimate. The other decision up for discussion did not involve VAR because the Referee deemed it to be a second bookable offence that culminated in a red card for the claret and amber's Callum Slattery. Sportscene was the channel for Foster's rage, he disagreed with the drawing of the lines for Sakala's run, he was certain Fashion Jr was offside. This was just a forerunner for fulmination reserved for Todd Cantwell. Callum Slattery had received a yellow card for scything down Lundstram in the first half. In the second period, he tangled with Cantwell, throwing out a straight left arm that caught the Rangers player on the jaw and neck. Richard proclaimed, "it's an absolute embarrassment from Cantwell, I don't think Tyson Fury would knock him down that quickly". Foster did not mention Slattery's status as the most cautioned player in the Premiership. However, he agreed Hibs forward, Elle Youan's red card at Sellik Park, "was the correct decision". Sportscene's Producer, Eamonn Donohoe has just found another useful idiot. Sunday afternoon's Sportsound had Big Dick Gordon hosting, with Jim Duffy and Stuart Kettlewell reviewing the weekend's games. First up was the 'Well - Gers clash. Kettlewell explained he had had two telephone conversations with the SFA Head of Refereeing, Crawford Allan. Like Foster the 'well Boss thought Sakala was offside and, pointed out Callum Slattery was the Premiership's most fouled player. Further, he felt Slattery's arm had caught Cantwell across his shoulder blades and questioned why he went down holding his face. Big Dick who we know was, '"raised to absolutely hate Rangers" summed up with, "basically, Cantwell has cheated and hoodwinked the Referee". When talking about events at ra Stade de Gadd, both Duffy and Kettlewell agreed Youan should not have been awarded a second yellow, VAR was correct in denying the award of a Sellik penalty as Abada had kicked the ground and, Starfelt's pulling of Hanlon's jersey was correctly punished with the award of a spot kick. Big Dick summed up with, "Martin Dowden asked Ange at the end if he was aware of Hibs displeasure with the match official? Ange replied he was standing yards from Lee Johnson and heard him complaining throughout the match and did not want to hear it again". Big Dick guffawed at Ange's rapier like wit. Maybe Sportsound should have had Lee Johnson on instead of Kettlewell? Bring on another Bete Noir, this one's Burst. It is the current PQ cri de coeur. It looks almost certain that Alfie will be departing at the end of this season and everyone has discussed the merits of the man and his football. Here on Gersnet, we indulged too. BBC Scotland demonised Alfie at every turn, Michael Stewart sat in both Sportscene and Sportsound studios smirking whilst the accompanying screen showed the Columbian's latest perceived sins unless, of course it was Alfie being pelted by opposition fans. There was one Sportscene evening in Alfie's first season where Michael Stewart had Morelos red carded against the hooped horrors on three separate occasions. The next day on Sportsound he begged the then Compliance Officer to become involved, offering the previous incumbent, Vincent Lunny always listened. Last week Sheriff Lunny handed down justice to Father Neil McGarrity, parish Priest at St Thomas church in Glasgow. Fr Neil pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual grooming, sexual assaults and, one charge of engaging in sexual activity with a minor. McGarrity's victims were four girls between the ages of ten and fourteen years. Lunny sentenced him to 250 hours of community service and placed the cleric on the sex offenders register for five years. I cannot imagine such leniency for Rangers players would suit Michael? Anyways, leniency appears to be in short supply for Todd Cantwell, he is a cheat and a hoodwinker according to Big Dick and RAB Cosgrove is on record as to not enjoying the Norfolk lad's accent. Bete Noir status awaits until another blue jersey comes into view.

Motherwell 1 Rangers 3 FGS : Sakala.

I agree. However, 29 Euro goals is a considerable contribution and extremely difficult to replace. Further, he has been targeted by the usual suspects. BBC Scotland's behaviour has been disgraceful. Constant appeals to the Compliance Officer by both Sportsound and Sportscene. I think eight red cards and four rescinded. Then five convictions for opposition supporters throwing coins, hot and cold iced drinks and, lighters and vapes. My favourite was in the month where Rangers visited both Pittodrie and Easter Road three seasons past. The Dandy Dons held a banner in Spanish proclaiming Alfie's Mother to be a mattress. At Easter Road, Irvine Welsh on Hibs TV wanted Alfie macheted into thin strips and fed to seagulls. Both incidents did not receive punishment, they were drowned out by the sniggers of the usual suspects. It is a baby and bath water situation. Often, he is his own worst enemy but, he has made an important contribution.

Will you miss his 29 goals in Euro' competition(a club record) where the opposition is more than decent?

You sure? When did Peter go firm on Hampden?

Rangers 5 Raith Rovers 0 FGS : Colak.

Let's hope Alfie does not dehydrate whilst in Seville. Toilet water with a hint of bleach is an acquired taste.

Hibs 2 Rangers 4 FGS : Colak.

The last time Rangers played on Christmas day was 1971 at Easter Road. The snow fell that day too, a blustery billow in the first half changed to a blizzard during the last 15 minutes of the second. Colin Stein scored the only goal of the game in the last minute in front of 25,000 attending.

It would appear that BBC Scotland will have to find another Rangers spokesman. As of today, the Athletic have announced they will no longer cover matters Rangers. The Athletic has decided Wrexham are a better fit as to their future. Jordan Campbell was the Rangers correspondent, now he covers Arsenal. Of course, PQ and Chris could decide to utilise St Mirren Chairman, John Needham as their next Rangers spokesman. He is in the news today because he took to Twitter to like a post from a Sellik minded Journo who states, 'Sunday's VAR was controlled by Referee, Andrew Dallas from inside his Orange Lodge". This follows Needham's Twitter expression of two years past on Rangers achieving 55, "I note Rangers supporters celebrating by performing the Bouncy on the Squity bridge, hopefully the bridge collapses into the Clyde with them on it". John Needham has all the credentials demanded by PQ to be a Rangers man.

The Balanced Jum Spence? Yesterday's Off the Ball had the resigned Rectum of Dundee University, Jum Spence as special guest. Yep, the Journo who was allowed to resign twice from BBC Scotland because he could NOT bring an objective approach to dealing with Rangers and Rangers supporters; is once again invited on to the PQ airwaves to proffer his preferred prejudice. Further, it is important to remember Jum eats the biled ham raw. Just before the start of this season, Jum Tweeted more of his omnipotence. He sought to reassure his fellow Dundee United fans(no laughing at the back) that all was well in the clootie world. He told of leaving Sunday morning mass and meeting both the Tangerines owner, Mark Ogren and Chief Executive, Tony Asghar. He laid any jitters to mind - they attended mass and Jum felt the club was in good hands and would perform well. On being asked yesterday as to the state of Tannadice things now, he took another bite of that raw biled ham; "You know ah said to both Mark and Tony at the start of the season, Scotland is a hard presbyterian country. Somewhere down the line you can expect some grief, they love to sink the boot in". Jum, in terms of sinking the boot in; may I draw your attention to St Bartholomew's Day 1572.

Times move and we must move with them. If we do not continue to invest in the Ladies teams at the current level, we will be open to charges of misogyny.

I attended the AGM and, I seem to remember the budget for the Ladies team was £1 million per annum.

It's been a hard week for Sellik supporting Gary McKeown. His team deservedly won the League Cup last Sunday and he has had to wait a week to slide his stiletto. In saying the above, the point he makes is mostly sound.

Rangers 2 Kilmarnock 0 FGS : Morelos.

Well done Frankie. I noted the run of results throughout the Club's various teams also and had intended to write something about an unacceptable situation. The magnitude of the situation and the necessary conclusions to be drawn put me off. It had to be done.

"Balance"? "Balance" is the new buzz word at PQ. RAB Cosgrove was taunting listeners with it, "Bobby Bluebell of the Bluebells is in the studio today, since this is the BBC and we must have balance we have two members of the band, Tide Lines who support Rangers". Bobby aka Robert Hodgens is the tall, long haired speccy frontman from the 80s/90s beat combo, the Bluebells. Robert laments their choice of name, "the grief we've had over the years". Bobby is just another long term Sellik supporting mate of RAB's. He told us during lockdown, "ah miss my regular coffees with Bobby Bluebell". RAB had Rangers supporting mates too; three of them but after 2012 they accepted Rangers are not the same club and gave up their season tickets. Balance allows for fantasy on a number of levels. Bobby, like so many other long term green'n'grey hooped horrors, is in with the PQ bricks. Regularly, Bobby is credited with providing ambient tones on documentaries, nature shows and, dramas. The creation of BBC Scotland's second channel has been very good financial news for RAB's fellow travellers. Thus, Bobby leaving one PQ studio to sit beside RAB in another with two other guys off the street is presented as, "Balance". Why doesn't RAB do the full Rangers Tax Case Blog nostalgia and get on Bobby's former bandmate, Lawrence Donegan? Of course, RAB has pleaded live on air for Rangers supporters to forget all about the Rangers Tax Case Blog on several occasions; however, at the weekend, he continues to bang on about succulent lamb and Jim Traynor. There's RAB's idea of balance. The Producers are always in on the jokes, they do not call in pretending to be Hearts supporters from Newton Mearns anymore to lambast Rangers; no that type of balance is now a no-no at Auntie Beeb. Prompting Tam the Token to read out an e-mail from Dave Ross hail hailing from the Admiral Bar in Bothwell Street is another type of balance. Dave Ross is one of a triumvirate owning the Admiral Bar, the other two names retreat into the shadows. The pub is closing because the building containing the Howf is being redeveloped. All RAB's long term BIG Sellik supporting mates have taken to their newspaper and fanzine(the National) columns to lament the bar's passing. Downstairs at the Admiral quickly became thePQ in-crowd Gang Hut. Phil McFournames held monthly briefings to packed breathless audiences. Kevin McKenna's column for the Herald and National was meeting in the pub with Gerry Braiden and Monsignor Tom Connolly(Scottish RC Press Officer) where he described the impending closure, "as akin to the death in the family". "Balance" echoed into Sunday, BIG Dick hosted the Final coverage where he introduced Pat Bonner then, "we require balance and Neil McCann is here too". Throw in Wullie Miller and Liam McLeod, you have the usual AberTic production. I was listening as the TIFO displays were revealed, Big Dick described the Rangers supporters offering as a crest and a capped supporter. He proclaimed he had no idea reference the Green Brigade's contribution? It was a depictation of a white phoenix arising from the flames ie, "out of the ashes arose the Provisionals". In a week where the IRA attempted to murder a serving Police Officer during a football coaching session, BIG Dick pleads ignorance and Pat cannot inform him and, all those Producers who stood downstairs in the Admiral cannot help him either? This must be the New Balance? If it fits, wear it with pride. PQ continually praise the actions of the Green Brigade, only last week RAB was in throes of excitement over their Douglas Ross banner. "Balance" must involve Chris McLaughlin, he reported on the nine O'Clock Sunday morning clashed between the Green Brigade and the Union Bears. Chris brought more new balance to the story in that he omitted Police Scotland had allocated Saturday to the GB to lay out their latest homage to the Provos and, the UB were given Sunday morning. Why the GB were marching down past the Rangers end at such a Sunday morning hour was not explained. I agree with the rest of Chris McLaughlin's sentiment in that Police Scotland will seek evidence to arrest all involved. Of course, the Balance comes at the Procreator Fiscal's office; remember, they have loads of previous for losing evidence against the Green Brigade? PQ Balance - it makes you feel quite dizzy.

Yep, Aribo's ability to take a ball in and get his head up was missed yesterday. Whether he was laying it off or, keeping it in a winning a foul to take the team up the field. In the first half, we missed an Aribo type contribution. We could not retain possession in the first half for more than a couple of passes. Interestingly, we had 40% possession in the first half but won 7 corners to Sellik's one. I thought we isolated Tillman yesterday during the first period, he was way to far right. The spine of Ange's side is Carter Vickers, Calum McGregor and, Kyogo. Moving Tillman more centre would place him on top of deep lying McGregor and, he starts everything for ra Sellik. By the time the first half hour had passed, I was watching the clock as much as the game. I was hoping we could reach half time without conceding. Thirty seconds to go and we allowed Sellik to have possession on the wide edge of our box, a situation achieved from two simple passes. Truthfully, we were blowing out our collective arses after a sustained 45 minute run around. Both Lundstram and Kamara have been good signings, their contributions in last years Euro run are acknowledged. However, yesterday in the first forty-five they were missing. The last 15 of the first period, we were hitting long balls from our own penalty box.

Rangers 3 Celtic 2 FGS : Morelos.

Always a Sellik state of mind? It's Friday evening before the old firm League Cup final on Sunday at Hampden. BBC Scotland's flagship news programme is Reporting Scotland. BBC Scotland's Sports News Correspondence, Chris McLaughlin does a five minute preview. How both sides arrived at the final is covered, then we get a bit about the last time the old firm met in this final in 2019. Chris continues with a mention of the part to be played by both clubs' supporters. He interviews Natasha Meikle from A Celtic State of Mind outside ra Stade de Gadd, followed by a PQ studio interview with Jordan Campbell of the Athletic.Apparently, Jordan Campbell is the Rangers Writer at the Athletic? Do any Gersnetters know anything about Jordan Campbell? Further, is the Athletic considered a bona fide source of all things Rangers? Anyways, PQ appears to be extending considerable effort into establishing A Celtic State of Mind as a legitimate and reliable source of all things Sellik. I count tonight's inclusion as being the fourth such BBC Scotland exposure in as many weeks.

I have long been an advocate of Anton Logan's inclusion? We should begin the Rangers experience each matchday at the Edmiston with a massed, 'Lets all do the Anton'; a good cardio-vascular exercise. Anton's considerable contribution to the Rangers supports feeling of immense well being should NOT be ignored.

I suspect wee Alfie could get quite gallus with a chainsaw in his hands?