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I'd disagree and say that the success of the Yes campaign was that inquisitive people did their own research and came up with the conclusion that we weren't 'Better Together', more like 'Better Apart'. I wasn't swayed by Salmond vs Darling, Sturgeon vs Davidson, the wholly unexplained 'social justice' tag and the Nats 'when all else fails shout FOODBANKS', I based my choice on who would be better running Scotland's economy and what Scotland's economy actually produces. Take Oil away and we still have a pretty good economy. When you understand that Westminster needs to ensure that London and the SE works efficiently in spite of the rest of the UK citizens, then you reach the conclusion that the one-size-fits-all doesn't suit Scotland, let alone, Liverpool, Newcastle, Cardiff or Belfast.

 

When you look at all our Northern European neighbours and you see Norway, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland all with a richer GDP per head than Scotland, most without being punished with this wholly volatile commodity which is oil then you ask why? The UK as a political system is a busted flush. We've been technically insolvent since the 60's and carrying on in the UK just seems to me to be pointless. All we are all doing is propping up a political system that has long since became irrelevant to a lot of people.

 

I'd say the Yes failed because they failed to appeal to the middle-class and a lot of the Yes propaganda read like something off an Oxfam advert.

 

Back to the OP too, the whole Rangers 'off the field' problems has really pissed me off, make no bones about it. Since the Mail first reported that Rangers were being investigated for tax irregularities, it's been one thing after another. This coupled by a seemingly totally non self-aware Rangers support singing the most ridiculous songs, it just really disenfranchises me from wanting to associate myself with Rangers. I'll always be a Rangers fan, but as I get older and wiser, the notion of emotionally investing in wanting 11 men to score goals so I can then listen to the Union Order sing about the Shankhill, Bobby Sands or how they want to shove things up my arse, then you start to question if it's really worth it.

 

I spent the weekend with my family going into town and took a walk up the Conic hills in Balmaha, whereas last season, I'd have spent a significant portion of one of those days watching Ian Black chopping down a mechanic and Lee McCulloch playing long balls up to Jon Daly, I'd have bought my son a Rangers strip and a meal deal thinking stupidly, that the money would go to Rangers. I'd then get the subway into the town and listen to some mutant talk about how much he hates Celtic. (BTW - the two guys in the George Square video, the one who doesn't take out his false tooth is who I'm talking about).

 

It's all rather depressing. I'm a football man, I'm into my politics and economics. I just don't want to mix them all up.

Paragraphs 1 and 2, naw. Paragraph 3 mibbees. The rest aye.

They didn't like him because he is a purveyor of snake oil. People saw through him and the rest of the natmob hogwash.

"Polarised Bears". Yet another new fans' group. Big parkas and snow- shoes to every match.

Let him never be employed at Ibrox.

I came down that stairway often enough from 70 - 80,000 attendances without too much bother. Crowds lost their self discipline mid-sixties when the rush for the pub overwhelmed common sense..

The worst place of all was the short exit tunnel at the Gorgie Road end at Tynecastle. You went through that bobbing about like a cork in a gutter.

First one is 1959/60, give or take.

The second must be the demolition of the terracing for the construction of the Copland.

Sense in that last paragraph.

Nae floowurr o' scollan' - help ma boab. That's my punishment for voting No.

Satisfactory but scarcely memorable.

Nothing sad about ICT getting a cuffing, dB.

Gizelle - halfway between the swift-moving animal of the Savanna and the turgid ballet. Which suits the Laffo boy better?

Actually you could get away with that if you spelled it "MacKayie".

Appalling habit. Cricket's worse. "Vaughanie", "Broadie" and the execrable "Bellie". Dear God.

Dear God!!!!!!!

Plenty of folk warned us and got dog's abuse for their trouble. I thought they were gloomsters at first. Ah weel, i ken noo.

If Ashley comes, will he bring Pardew with him?

It would be an improvement, barely measurable but still an improvement.

Nobody's going to learn anything at Cowden or Morton or Clyde. They'd be better in the Lower English leagues.

Should have been disqualified and had the car taken from him.

Insurance dodgers should never be let back on the road nor 'phone buffoons either.

I'm pretty sure he means a new motto for the club rather than a motto for a new club.

Bloody good motto ats.

Beginning to look like suicide now.

A galoot and a goldurn no-good, side-winding, bush-whacking varmint.

Wasn't Lawwell, was ot?

"Even got Johnny Hubbard for company"

Lucky man, RR, to sit with an Immortal.

Billy didn't play in that famous line-up. It was the Prime Minister at inside right

KM does a decent job and while I did suggest he could do the old inside forward game he is sure thing not a patch on Ralphie.

Kenny will run 'til the day is done. Give him a go as an old fashioned fetch and carry inside forward.

I will be very pleased if City win the league again but I don't share the current euphoria over the plight of United enjoyable though it is for the moment. Souness didn't start too well if I remember rightly.