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Borrowed from elsewhere. BEING on the fringes of the Manchester City squad was a double-edged sword for Brandon Barker. As a winger, being able to lean on the likes of Raheem Sterling for advice was invaluable. The only problem was, with Sterling ahead of him in the pecking order at the Etihad, he was unlikely to ever make the breakthrough into Pep Guardiola’s first team.Barker took the positives from the situation though, speaking to Sterling regularly and picking up pointers along the way, and he says that the England man was fully behind his decision to finally make the break from City and find a new home at Ibrox.“I learned a lot from Raheem,” Barker said. “Watching him grow from when he first came to what he’s doing now. We used to speak a lot and he was really encouraging.“Watching him now becoming a great player in the world is great to see.“The best advice [he gave me] was just to be yourself and never be afraid. I think that’s how I play. It doesn’t matter who I’m playing, I don’t have any fear, and hopefully I can show the fans what I’m all about.“It was my time to move on now and I think all the boys knew that. It was sad because I’d been there 16 years and I grew up at City from a being a little baby. But I needed a new home, I’d needed one for the last two seasons. Now I have that opportunity and I’m just buzzing.“Rangers came in, Steven Gerrard phoned me, and it was an opportunity that I couldn’t turn down.”Finding a home is a theme of the conversation with Barker, who Scottish fans will already know from his season-long loan spell at Hibernian. He was out on loan again at Preston North End last season, but he is certain that Rangers supporters will see the best of him now that he has put down permanent roots.“I lost my way a bit going out on loan all the time,” he said.“It is not easy to leave your family and to keep going different places.“I have been looking for an actual home and now I have that. I’m grateful for that and hopefully Rangers will reap the rewards of that.“It is hard when you come to the end of the loan and you don’t know what will happen the following season.“It can be difficult to stay focused but now I know I’m a Rangers player. And I can say that with a smile on my face.”A quirk of Barker’s move to Rangers of course is that the manager he spent a year working under at Hibs, Neil Lennon, is now back in charge of his new club’s arch-rivals Celtic.The 22-year-old acknowledges that he owes a debt of thanks to Lennon for helping him to establish himself in professional football, and he is in no doubt that the year he spent at Easter Road on loan from Manchester City, played a major role, ironically enough, in helping him to where he is now.But his gratitude only stretches so far, and Barker will be doing everything in his power to make sure his former boss has a thoroughly miserable season.“This is my club, this is my home and I want the absolute best for Rangers,” he said.“I want to establish myself here and I want the fans to remember who I am.“When [the Celtic] game comes, we’ll see what happens. [Neil Lennon] gave me an opportunity and I was grateful to Hibs for doing that.“Now I am a Rangers player and I’m ready to give everything for them.“I was here for a year and I know what the league takes. It is a competitive league, but we have a really good squad and we will compete this year.“I think I became a man when I was up here first time. There were ups and downs and I had an injury I had to deal with. But I learned about the Scottish game.“People talk it down a lot but there is nothing to talk down. It is getting better and better and I’m really excited to be a part of it again.”One of the main hurdles that any winger at Rangers will have to contend with this season is making the Ibrox support forget about Ryan Kent, but Barker is determined to add a regular end-product to his game in order to have a similar impact as the on-loan Liverpool man did in Glasgow.“I’d like to add goals to my game,” he said.“I think that’s our job and sometimes it’s said wingers don’t score enough goals. I think that’s right, we do have to chip in with a lot of goals and a lot of assists.“Hopefully I can bring that to Rangers.”

No matter the subject the usual suspects paranoia takes over.

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Let’s hope so. But they will carry on with the its a different entity claim till the end, in this case the perpetrator was a proven club employee.

Wean got in ok but my card did not work tonight☹️ Hope it was a one off.

Good crowd tonight going by club website.

Hi @CelticFC sorry for the mess we left your changing room in. If you send us the bill we will pay you when we get our Champions League money. Thanks Cluj

Yes I believe he is. I posted that but then edited it out.

I believe it’s from the bible.

"And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

Steven Gerrard “You need two who are as good, hungry and dangerous as each other,” he said, as quoted by the Scotsman. “They have to understand it will be horses for courses – sometimes Jermain will suit an opposition, sometimes it will be Alfredo.” “For sure, we are going to need both of them firing if we are to have any ambitions of moving forward. There is also a debate that we may need to get a third striker, even though we have other options who can play there.”

STV News gave the result as 4-1??‍♂️

Weather looking to be extremely wet today, pissing down in fact.

Tierney confirming that boys club and football club were one and the same.

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/rangers/you-created-a-wonderful-atmosphere-rangers-fans-lavished-with-praise-by-danish-police-1-4980058 Rangers fans have been lavished with praise by Danish police.More than 700 supporters of the Ibrox side took in their team's 4-2 win over FC Midtjylland at the MCH Arena.Alfredo Morelos gave Steven Gerrard's men a half-time lead before Joe Aribo and Nikola Katic put the side three up. The Danes hit back and brought it back to 3-2 but Scott Arfield added what could prove to be a crucial fourth for Rangers.It was reported on Wednesday that Midtjylland had increased security for the match following incidents at Rugby Park on Sunday for the Govan side's opening league fixture.However, as expected by the Danish side's security manager, Lars Pedersen, who said the club's impression was that Rangers fans "are ordinary people who just want to enjoy themselves and enjoy a good football match", there were no incidents to speak of.And that was backed up by local police who tweeted praise for Rangers and their fans. MV-Jyllands Politi posted: "Congratulations to Rangers FC. What a match! Together with FC Midtjylland fans you created a wonderful athmosphere at the stadium. We hope you enjoyed your stay in Herning. We wish you a safe jouney back to Scotland."A Rangers fan replied: "When ticketing systems & turnstiles are properly governed,when the local police and stewards welcome you, when the local pubs and restaurants entertain you, we do love to mix with others and enjoy the atmosphere and occasion. Thanks for having us and showing others how it’s done."Another said: "It's amazing how far a bit of mutual respect will go ... it will never catch on in Scotland!"

When does Rangers TV coverage start? Is it a minute before KO or is there build up to it?

Line-ups FC Midtjylland 1Hansen 3Sparv 6Andersson 14Scholz 10da Silva Ferreira 20Nicolaisen 28Sviatchenko 9Kaba 88Wikheim 40Cajuste 38Ogochukwu Onyeka Substitutes 7Poulsen 8Okosun 11Mabil 25James 31Andersen 34Anderson 74dos Santos Júnior Rangers 1McGregor 2Tavernier 17Aribo 6Goldson 15Flanagan 19Katic 8Jack 18Kamara 37Arfield 20Morelos 22Jones Substitutes 4Edmundson 9Defoe 10Davis 11Ojo 13Foderingham 23Docherty 31Barisic

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Further update on BBC Scotland dispute Dear Member, Following the Club 1872 update last week regarding BBC Scotland and their ongoing, dishonest coverage of Rangers Football Club, BBC Scotland responded refuting our comments and selectively addressing certain points. BBC Scotland claimed in their statement that Rangers had not alerted them to the launch of the Everyone Anyone campaign and that the exclusion of Chris McLaughlin from Ibrox “severely restricts” their ability to report on Rangers. Unfortunately, BBC Scotland are once again being economical with the truth. Several BBC Scotland journalists were notified, not once but twice, about the launch of the Everyone Anyone campaign and received a press release about the initiative. To say that Rangers did not alert BBC Scotland to the launch, and the broader initiative, is simply not true. We would question why BBC Scotland would issue such a misleading and disingenuous response to our concerns over their refusal to cover a very positive initiative by Rangers Football Club. It is a serious matter for a publicly funded body to mislead licence payers who, however reluctantly, fund their work. We also note that BBC Scotland did not address our concerns regarding the contributor that they continue to present as a neutral commentator on their current affairs programmes, despite senior production staff being aware of a back catalogue of hate speech by that individual towards Rangers supporters. We fully back Rangers stance in not providing Chris McLaughlin with press privileges for Ibrox following his repeated, biased and dishonest coverage of our club. For BBC Scotland to suggest that his exclusion hinders their ability to report properly from Ibrox is also disingenuous. In fact, by any sensible measure, his exclusion marginally increases the chance that BBC Scotland might finally meet their obligations for fair and accurate reporting - something they continue to fall short of on a weekly basis. Since BBC Scotland issued their response, they have been forced to correct a misleading headline about Steven Gerrard’s comments in a press conference ahead of a recent European tie. Even after the initial correction, the headline was still misleading. BBC pundits Michael Stewart and Tom English have also taken to social media and BBC Sportsound to make a number of offensive, ignorant and irresponsible comments about Rangers supporters who found themselves caught up in crushing outside Rugby Park on Sunday. These comments are the subject of further complaints to BBC Scotland. BBC Scotland should stop short changing Scottish licence fee payers and begin to address the poisonous culture within Pacific Quay towards Rangers Football Club and our supporters. Issued by Supporters Voice Limited, a Club 1872 company Club 1872

Liam Burt has joined them.