Scott7

The trouble with Rangers’ bridge building is that the folk on the opposite bank don’t want to accept the spans ostensibly because the colour of the girders upsets them but really because those whom Rangers have vanquished time and again now see a chance to contain Rangers at a reduced operating level - high enough to generate income but not high enough to win anything. I don’t care if Rangers’ PR guy is Attila the h - , er, Leader of a horde of barbaric tribesmen, so long as he is accomplished in the business. I don’t seem to have read anything about the chap’s previous PR experience and successes. Have I missed it?

Big crowds standing safely on high terraces.

Not this year’s competition but vintage quarter final ties. Terrific entertainment. West Brom v Forest, Leicester v Wycombe, Arsenal v Watford. Slower than modern football and less athleticism but nowhere near as tedious. Wycombe didn’t string eight along the back but stiill won 2-1. Willie Johnston cutting through the Forest defence with ease. Clattered twice by Martin O’Neil so Willie gets up and cements Archie Gemmill. Couldn’t follow the logic there. Other legend* celtic managers featured across the ties. What a winger John Barnes was. Should have left it at that. * Legends for Rangers fans. Brady was another.

That’s a good one. I hope the new PR guy keeps that up his sleeve.

buster’s back. No bad thing. We all need to have our opinions tested. He needs to get shot of that bigoted avatar, though. No he doesn’t.

Is he on his own or does he bring a company with him? I reckon PR needs more than one face. At the very least one bombast and one weasel. If a swivel-eyed fanatic is what’s required I am available and not expensive.

Broadcasters would be foolish to attempt to recover their money but if they did, they would only be entitled to a proportion of the fee for the number of matches they could not show.

For a terrible moment I thought the next line was going to begin with the word “Stewart”.

celtic and Liverpool deserve their respective championships but as pointed out relegation outcomes are not so clear nor promotions and play-off positions in lower leagues. Cancellation is the easiest answer. Rotten luck for Dundee United by the way and I’d be raging the other way round. Should season ticket holders get a refund? I’m not but if I were, I’d just leave the money with the club. I posted this before I read John Mc #33.

Definite penalty. What took them so long to decide?

Is that possible? one might ask I read on another website that next season they will close the upper tier of their hallowed Dick Donald stand restricting capacity to less than 16,000. It will improve the atmosphere, says their heid bummer. He also boasts that Aberdeen are the fifth best-supported team in Scotland. Some achievement that. Apologies to Craig for mentioning the Dandies but I can’t resist sneering at them from time to time.

Thank God. One’s enough.

Poor match. Liverpool just out in accuracy, just short of pace and just a little bit slow in anticipation. Margins between brilliance and mediocrity can sometimes be fine. Bournemouth were poor but should have won 2-3.

And we’ll win 2-3 (King hat-trick)

Liverpool 3-0 B’mth Arsenal 2-2 Hammers Palace 1-0 Watford Blades 2-0 Norwich So’ton 2-1 Mags Wolves 3-1 Brighton Burnley 1-2 ‘Spurs Chelsea 2-1 Everton United 3-1 City Leicester 3-0 Villa

Rangers are underdogs for this match so the team can relax and probably win.

I hope you’re right but I doubt it. A generation of Scots has brain washed themselves into not being able to vote Conservative.

Correct. He should have followed a path similar to Ferguson’s. Partick then Dundee United then Ibrox. He could read a game like no other. I used to listen to his radio summarising. His ability to predict the timing and method of the next goal was uncanny. If he had kept Sandy Jardine he might have overcome the obstacles JohnMc rightly points out.

McGregor is never a captain. Too prone to bouts of hysteria.

He played in a Liverpool side which had no league success but he never had to carry the team like John Greig did and JG didn’t make it as a manager. Walter Smith and Jock Stein weren’t great players. Pretty good at the top job though.

Add Alex Scott and Willie Johnston to that list of notables. Best of them all was Gordon Smith of the Hibs. I’ll be banned now for heresy.

Terrific win for Wolves at the new Lane. 2-3.

Klopp out. Gerrard in. Or perhaps not.

All seems to be lost barring a series of fluke results so time to get ready for the next shot. Recall Docherty, tell him him he’s in the team no matter what and see what happens. He’s not a great footballer, his first touch and passing are poor. Harry Davis wasn’t a great footballer either but he held the ring for the artists to do their stuff. I’d gamble more and make him captain

I enjoyed my few days gloating but it’s all over now.