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Eric Sorenson the ‘keeper. Jorn(?) Sorenson the inside man. Not total duds. Albert Franks. (Newcastle) Stan Anderson (Clyde) and many more didn’t even bring their matches let alone set light to anything.

Dived for Coventry City in fact. Jim Blyth. Moving swiftly on from my previous notion.

A solution to the problem: All League Competitions abandoned. Premiership: Leaders Celtic. Last Position Heart of Midlothian (Repeat down the leagues) No declared champions in any league. No relegations , automatic promotions or play-offs for second promotions. No admissions from the Highland or Lowland Leagues. Prize money to be distributed equally among all clubs with a small proportion for the deemed champions of the Highland and Lowland Leagues but excluding any club occupying a relegation place in any league including League 2. Entry to European competitions deferred pending UEFA decision. If Rangers presented this proposition the only drawback for the Club is diminution of share of prize money. The relegation and promotion clubs will be displeased. I expect Brora will be secretly thrilled. But it won’t work because the anointed won’t get anointed.

Jings, compo. We won with a ten man team and a Norwegian composer at left back! I’d forgotten about the ‘keeper Lawrie (?) Blyth. Who did he play for?

Dry water pistol.

I know how you feel but giving up the Rangers gives victory to celtic and their archdemon. Some might argue celtic need Rangers in the league but they don’t. Their aim is perpetual representation in Europe and without Rangers, they’ll get it.

Cobalt is blue, Mack, so Liewell won’t be involved with that. The word whirling around in the back of your brain is cabal. I know what it’s like when the chambers of your mind open and shut without warning and the word you need pops out disguised as something else.

Seems that Rangers were right not to pursue an interest.

Can’t afford it. Litigation is eye-wateringly expensive.

An ancient cutting from Private Eye won’t cook anybody’s goose. Shifty only has to deny saying it. I doubt there will be proof. There may be a more effective rabbit to be pulled from the hat in the Court of Session today but I’m not confident. On past form, Rangers’ lawyers must have bought their box of tricks from a Tommy Cooper surplus sale. Has the legion of timmish lawyers rubbished the Partick opinion yet?

Can Partick afford litigation?

Learned Counsel for the Theeesssell must be very confident if they have consented to publication of their Opinion.

***** Ineligible. Already signed for selic. So’s shifty if I think about it.

No reparation for early termination I hope.

We’ve been laughed out of Court literally and metaphorically too often in recent years. It’s the advice Park’s been getting that worries me.

Interesting. I haven’t seen it that way. I’ll look more carefully next time whenever that will be. Hard to judge from the telly because you don’t see the whole field.

It had better be good. It had better be devastating. A losing battle is not worth fighting. The named persons might be looking at defamation if they are not destroyed. Would we be bothered so much if this was number four instead of nine in a row? Not many among us hadn’t conceded the title by the the third week of January. Park is presumably a sensible man but what sort of advice is he getting? I hope there is an affidavit from the whistleblower.

Ross-shire is Rangers but County has never been slow at dancing to a bigger club’s tune.

That’s 24 players who would stroll into the current Scotland team and there are many more.

Players who had all or a significant part of their careers in England. Bill Brown, Dundee/‘Spurs Alec Parker, Falkirk/Everton George Thomson, Hearts/Everton Billy Bremner, Leeds Ian Ure, Dundee/Arsenal Dave McKay, Hearts/‘Spurs Alec Young, Hearts/ Everton John White, Falkirk/‘Spurs Alan Gilzean, Dundee/‘Spurs Denis Law, United Billy Liddell, Liverpool Every top side in England had a couple of Scotsmen often the main players. There were umpteen others,Cormack, St John. Yeats, Gemmill, Souness and more. Now we pick unknowns from the Championship most of them Englishmen with Scots grannies.

I was wearing full PPE. Thom was a decent player right enough. Long range last minuters.

With Sword and Bible to hand, I trust, 26th? I would use ear defenders myself but for once it seems you have heard something decent. Mother, Father forgive me but well done the Caley.

From my master class for weans about a year ago. The old ritual lineup at the kickoff was GK 1, RB 2, LB 3, RH 4, CH 5, LH 6, OR 7, IR 8, CF 9, IL 10, OL 11. No names or numbers on the jerseys in early times. The formation was more fluid than that during the game. The centre half in the three was really a centre fullback so the backline was RB, CH, LB. As play developed with a team attacking on the right, the RB advanced but rarely beyond the half line. The CH also came forward but not as far as the RB and the LB dropped back so there was a diagonal across the pitch. If the attack was on the left the diagonal swung the other way, pivoting on the CH, hence the description of the CH as the pivot, usually in journalese “the big pivot”. The weakness of the system is obvious. A clearance out of defence into the space behind a RB in an advanced position for a pacy winger to run onto caused problems unless Eric Caldow was there with his speed of thought and foot to come across to the rescue. Willie Telfer was the last of the old pivots. Bill Patterson was the nominal CH in a four man defence of RB, Shearer, RH, Davis, CH Patterson, LB Caldow. Davis played between RB and CH and slightly forward of the line. The half backs were theoretically defenders but one usually was more forward going and the other defensive eg Davis and Billy Stevenson. The inside forwards were attackers but one was often a fetcher and carrier - Sammy Baird, perhaps - and the other a craftsman to unlock the defence and unleash the wingers - McMillan the prime example. Rangers in the last of the fifties and the sixties played 4-2-4 before it was invented. Hearts were the first team to officially play that system with Danny Ferguson wearing 7 on his jersey playing RB. (“Gerrup yer wing, Fergyssunn”, cried the Gorgie afficionados.) If a team was very lucky and had John Greig, the defensive/forward distinction for the half back didn’t matter because he could play both in the same game. Is the spectacle better now? Yes if you’re watching City or Barcelona but for the most part, because of its flaws, the nominal 2-3-5 was more exciting and less predictable

The All England XI, footer togs at the ready. Gordon Banks (Leicester) (My big brother says Frank Swift, City) Jimmy Armfield (Blackpool) Terry Cooper (Leeds) Duncan Edwards (United) Billy Wright (Wolves) Bobby Moore (West Ham) Stanley Matthews (Blackpool) Jimmy Greaves (‘Spurs) Bobby Charlton (United) Colin Bell (City) Tom Finney (Preston North End) I didn’t see Edwards or Wright except in very old film but their reputations demand inclusion. I should have had Lofthouse for Charlton but sentiment ruled. Again, Wayne Biggins just misses out.

If you mean not going back to Ibrox, then you are helping the rancid crew to finish the job they started in 2012. Where Rangers play, we must follow.