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I'm pretty sure Rangers done some research and found the c**t** shop was doing well in the airport, hence their decision to follow suit. It'll create some jobs too.

...so you get to see it TWICE!!..as you go down to check-in then back up to depart. Yeogh!! Not anymore... your eyes will be diverted to something much nicer now

The C*lt*c shop is at the top of the escalator stairs on the 1st floor on your right as you make your way to the departure lounge - can't miss it.

These are the new Hoffenheim kits 13/14, TSG 1899 The new Hoffenheim shirts have been made by Puma and were released on 10 June, 2013. They feature a new sponsor in the form of ERP major SAP AG. Hoffenheim finished a poor 16th in the 2012/13 season and were forced to play a promotion relegation playoff against Kaiserslautern, which they won 5-2 on aggregate to stay in the first division. The home kit is the blue one.

Hearts put entire squad up for sale amid financial crisis Hearts will listen to offers for their entire first-team squad in an effort to keep the club afloat. The Edinburgh club said it was the result of other revenue "drying up". A Hearts source has told BBC Scotland that they need to raise a "significant six figure sum" before the weekend to be able to pay wages due to players. Hearts face uncertainty with a debt of £25m - £10m of which is due to their parent company, UBIG, which is claiming insolvency. And the club owes £15m to Ukio Bankas, which has been declared bankrupt . Could we afford Danny Wilson I wonder? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22888346

From the official site: I've took the liberty to put this in here as it's often missed in the 'News Feed'. Hope that's ok admin? RANGERS Football Club will open new shops at Glasgow Airport and in Belfast giving supporters the chance to buy official club merchandise and further enhancing the Light Bluesâ?? global appeal. The Glasgow Airport unit will open on Wednesday 26 June with the Belfast shop, located at 63 Ann Street in the city, to be opened a week earlier on Wednesday 19 June.* A full range of Rangers products â?? including the new Puma kits for Season 2013/14 - will be available at both locations in due course and supporters will have the chance to buy a wide range of merchandise from launch days. Interim Chief Executive Craig Mather said: â??We are delighted to confirm Rangers shops at Glasgow Airport and in Belfast will open offering a full range of official club merchandise to our supporters. â??Rangers has a truly global fan base and supporters can now enjoy the benefits of shopping at Glasgow airport ahead of their travels. â??Feedback from fans is always welcome and I know they have been keen to see us re-open shops at both locations so we are thrilled to offer our supporters the chance to buy a wide range of club products in Belfast and at Glasgow airport once again.â? Glasgow Airport Store Opening Times Monday â?? Sunday: 4am to 8pm Belfast Store Opening Times Monday â?? Wednesday: 9.30am to 5.30pm Thursday: 9.30am to 9pm Friday â?? Saturday: *9.30am to 5.30pm Sunday: 1pm to 5pm About time too I say http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?56723-Airport-And-Belfast-Set-For-Shops&p=423240#post423240

As I said in a previous post...hell mend them http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/rangers-in-crisis-hearts-become-first-1129924

They were actually the FIRST club to come out and tell us all how they were going to vote - hell mend them

If we are honest with ourselves 42 clubs in Scotland is about 22 too many. Amalgamate or face expulsion should be the next step

Yep - cool bud

What about the 'trialists' rules? Some say the SPFL rules plan to remove that entirely. Surely 23 of the 29 SFL clubs wouldn't have voted for that? I always thought the lower division clubs depended on it.

St Mirren & Ross County?

Absolutely! League fixtures still to be announced so why not. We then get an invite to the 2nd twelve or stay in the bottom tier.

Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi and his father are being investigated in Spain for allegedly defrauding the state of more than 4m euros (£3.4m). The 25-year-old Argentina forward and his father, Jorge Horacio, are suspected of filing fraudulent tax returns for 2007-09, officials say. The World Player of the Year has so far made no comment on the allegation. His net annual salary at Barcelona is said to be 16m euros, making him one of the world's highest-paid athletes. On Wednesday, a complaint signed by prosecutor Raquel Amado was filed at the courthouse in Gava - the affluent Barcelona district where Messi lives. Judges at the courthouse must accept the complaint before the suspects can be charged, reports say. Messi and his father are suspected of using companies abroad - in Belize and Uruguay - to sell the rights to use the footballer's image. The accusation is that by using companies based outside Spain where he lives and plays club football, Messi and his father avoided paying more than 4m euros in tax. If convicted, Messi could face up to six years in prison and a large fine, according to Spain's EFE news agency. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22877408

Sorted for you mate......

we've not celebrated 141 yet sc

...he was a witness in the case... some get thrown off course a bit in the following multi off topic posts within a thread... People must learn not to jump into the middle of a thread in future.

He's cleverer than most people give him credit for - given by what you just said. I thought he was just a 'witness' to the case?

Did he forget then?

BY STEPHSTAR The name legend is unfortunately thrown around by many and is devalued by doing so . We as Rangers supporters have a seniors team made up by ex players called the Rangers Legends . While some of the players who wear that seniors strip could make a decent claim to be include as club legends others ,while decent enough players, definitely couldn’t . That doesn’t detract from the fine charity work they do and how they represent our club , but they’re not all legends . There are legends though , players like Mcphail , Young , Jardine, Grieg , Baxter ,Henderson, Stein , Butcher , Gough , Laudrup , Gascoigne and not forgetting a certain Alistair Murdoch McCoist . These guys to me are legends , you may well have others or disagree with my choice but thats a debate for another time . That was the players , but we also have many legends behind the scenes , people like Peter and Moses Mcneil , Peter Campbell , William Mcbeath and the ‘ Fifth ‘ founder Tom Vallance .We had truly great managers like Wm Struth , Scot Symon , Jock Wallace and Walter Smith . All great men in their own right and all men who brought great credit to a club that they loved . There is however a glaring omission from both lists , a man who only ever played for one club in his whole career staring in 1938 V Arsenal scoring the only goal of the game on his debut and finishing some 18 years later in 1956 in a friendly v Manchester City . That man was William Waddell . Willie Waddell was a one off , as I have said he only ever played for Rangers but his association with the club on and off the park spanned 50 years . As a young boy I remember him replacing Davie White the then manager , I knew not of his great skills as a player but was excited as new Rangers managers didn’t come along very often then and my father and uncles were excited about the return of ‘ Deedle ‘ . When I asked who he was I was regaled with tales of his skill and ability and enjoyed the nostalgia of hearing the grown ups talk about this wee winger who had so much talent . When he was favorably compared to my then , and still , hero Willie Henderson then that was good enough for me . Until he became Rangers manager William Waddell had only ever managed one club Kilmarnock and led them in 1965 to their only ever league win. When he returned “home” in 1969 it was to face the challenge of Celtic who were at their peak and still the dominant force in Scottish football . Waddell did not wrestle the league back from his city rivals but did end Rangers four year trophy less run by winning the Scottish League Cup in 1971 gaining the club entry into the 1972 European Cup Winners Cup. In 1972 Waddell’s team led by John Grieg despite being underdogs got to the final where they defeated favorites Dynamo Moscow 3-2 with goals from Stein and Johnston (2) . The trouble in the stadium was caused by the fascist police of Francisco Franco over reacting to the pitch invasion after the final whistle put a dampener on the occasion . Pitch invasions were common all over Europe at this time and such was the outrage at the reaction of the fascist police even in Spain that Barcelona invited Rangers to their tournament the following year . After winning the Cup Winners Cup Waddell stood down handing the mangers job to Jock Wallace who went on to end Celtics domination and end their run of consecutive league wins . William Waddell had more important things to do . On January 2nd 1971, in what was to be Waddell’s first successful season as manager since returning in 1969 , Rangers were playing rivals Celtic at Ibrox . Celtic were winning through a late Jimmy Johnstone goal and the final whistle was approaching . Some of the 80,000 crowd , common for old firm league games of that era, were starting to make their way home when Colin Stein scored an equalizer with almost the last kick of the game .What exactly happened is still unclear but it is thought that some supporters already going down the step staircase at Stairway 13 turned and tried to push their way back in , others claim people on the stairway bent down to pick up things they had dropped when they celebrated the goal . Whatever the cause the weight of thousands of people pushing down led to a horrific crush as fans stumbled upon each other crushing 66 fans to their death and injuring 145 more . This was not the first time Ibrox had suffered a disaster , in 1902 part of a wooden stand where the Govan stand is now collapsed and 25 people were killed and 517 injured . Prior to the disaster in 1971 in September of 1961 two fans were killed on stairway 13 and more were injured by crushing in 1967 and 1969 . Enough was enough and Mr Waddell applied his determination to rebuilding Ibrox following the disaster of 1971 . The then players who you have to remember were young men at the time tried to console grieving friends and families in between visits to hospitals and funerals . Such was the horror that another legend Sandy Jardine recalled years later “ When we visited people some of them had turned black with the air squeezed out of them . Their eyes were popping out of their head from lack of oxygen ……to this day if I am in the crowd at a game I never out my hands by my side . You have to give yourself a chance . I learned that from those hurt that day ……” If the disaster affected the players it had a greater effect on the manager , he demanded players represent the club at every funeral possible , such was the number lots had to be drawn to decide who went where .It should be noted that Celtic Fc sent players and representatives to many of the funerals as a mark of unity within the game and a sign of respect .A time shot from days gone by and of less hatred between the clubs perhaps . After the disaster Mr Waddell made it his mission to make Ibrox the safest ground possible quitting as manager at the height of his fame to become a director and he began looking at ways to fulfill his mission . He looked at various plans and modifications to the ground and had asked Hugh Adams to head the Rangers Development fund through his Rangers pools . It wasn’t until 1974 while he was in Germany watching Scotland’s world cup campaign that he say the Borussia Dortmund’s Westfalen stadion . It was exactly what he was looking for , a rectangular park with three new stands replacing the oval terracing and steep banks of the old Ibrox . He contacted the architects The Miller Partnership and plans were drawn up . When the board saw the plans there was a great deal of opposition , some claimed it wouldn’t be Ibrox any more with only the main stand , now the Bill Struth stand , remaining and the rest of the ground flattened and redeveloped , the capacity of the new ground would be nearly half of that of the old one . Many fans were unhappy at what they saw as a break with tradition . Mr Waddell was unmoved and his determination made sure the plans were pushed through . Costing around £10million at the time a large part of which had come from the Rangers Development fund . Mr Waddell lived to see the ground he loved almost complete , such was the man influence that Sir David Murray continued the work adding a club deck and filling in the corners at each end of the Govan stand which was built to replace Mr Waddell’s Centenary stand and give the ground its almost oval shape once more . On his death in October of 1992 Scottish football as a whole had a genuine sadness at the last of a gallant breed and representatives form clubs all over the world attended his funeral . Willie Waddell was a man many younger supporters will have vaguely heard of but not know a great deal about , I hope buy reading this it spurs their interest to find out more about this truly great Rangers man .I think he would be proud of the stadium that is his legacy and the fact that it is amongst the safest in the world . He was a great man and having researched a little about this selfless man who gave everything he could to our club I can understand why some people think of him as the greatest Ranger of the all. William Waddell born Forth on 7 March 1921 -Died Glasgow 14 October 1992 Played for Rangers 1938-1956 over 200 games and earned 18 caps for his country and 5 caps for the Scottish league XI , was a manager then director from 1969 until his death in 1992 a real Rangers man in every sense , we could do with his likes today .

When is this Harry Hood thing gonna be settled...will it destroy the SPL as we know it? ...and if it does will the whole game in this country go down the tubes big time?

D'ye think Craig is 'feart' to come into the country, or did he genuinely think he didn't need to appear in court today?

Former Scotland captain David Weir is on the brink of becoming the new manager of Sheffield United. BBC Radio Sheffield understands that a deal is being finalised between the League One club and the 43-year-old. Weir was recently interviewed for the manager's job at Everton, where he has been a reserve team coach, before they appointed Roberto Martinez. The Scot had been close to signing for the Blades as a player after leaving Rangers in January 2012. He trained under then manager Danny Wilson as the defender was keen to extend his playing career. Instead, he returned to former club Everton to take up a coaching role, although he initially continued to play for the reserves at Goodison. Now, with fellow Scotsman David Moyes having moved to Manchester United, Weir is poised to make his own first move into management with the Blades. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22833212

Last year they were released on Monday June 18th (but we weren't sure where would be playing at the time) So I'm assuming they will be announced a week tomorrow - anyone know for sure? First round of SFL matches is on Saturday 10th August, final round Saturday 3rd May 2014. No SFL fixtures scheduled for Saturday 21st December or Saturday 4th January, but clubs may move games from Thursday 26th December and Thursday 2nd January to those free dates if they wish. Here are the dates for the cup competitions for those who are interested: Challenge Cup 1st Round - Saturday 27th July 2013 2nd Round - Tue/Wed 20th/21st August 2013 3rd Round - Saturday 7th September 2013 Semis - Sunday 13th October 2013 (Full SFL card also scheduled) Final - Sunday 6th April 2014 League Cup 1st Round (All SFL teams apart from Dundee (assuming they are relegated) plus Partick Thistle) - Saturday 3rd August 2013 2nd Round - Tue/Wed 27th/28th August 2013 3rd Round - Tue/Wed 24th/25th September 2013 4th Round - Tue/Wed 29th/30th October 2013 Semi Finals - Sat/Sun 1st/2nd February 2014 Final - Sunday 16th March 2014 Scottish Cup 1st Round - 14th September 2013 2nd Round - 5th October 2013 (3rd Division Teams) 3rd Round - 2nd November 2013 (All remaining SFL teams) 4th Round - 30th November 2013 (All SPL & remaining SFL teams) 5th Round - 8th February 2014 6th Round - 8th March 2014 Semis - Sat/Sun 12th/13th April 2014 Final - Saturday 17th May 2014

Ally McCoist for all his good work for Rangers won't succeed as a manager of the club for sure..I was thinking - Would you take Gordon Strachan as the man to lead us to greatness again? Wee Gord has proven ability as a manager and knows how to bring the best out of pretty mediocre footballers. Ally seems to do the opposite. This isn't a joke, I'm really serious...would you take Strachan right now to take us forward? I'd grab it