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It was a foul. Only a tiny little foul but a foul nonetheless. If you want to use your hands in a game, don’t play football. Should just have let the ‘keeper jump. He wouldn’t have got it.

The general public have limited free access online to the Scottish Land Register. Some information is available, unfortunately not owners’ identities. The Register shows that the area posted by @Bluedell above is the actual football ground. (I decline to say stadium) The last registered transaction was on 4 August, 2004 value £1,000 (ONE THOUSAND) Some administrative juggling I imagine. Interestingly the ground immediately in front, apparently including a small bit of the actual building itself, is not on the Register but it’s ownership is probably on the old recording system to which there is no free access. The map helpfully labels the area as “Statues”. To the south of the ground is a property just described as “London Road” without a number, last transaction 30 April 2014, value £359,772. Could be one of Haughey’s. There are several parcels of land mostly on the south-east, all described as “Janefield Street”. Dalriada Street is one of them. Not all of them are contiguous. One bit of ground is on the on the north-west of the football ground but all are on the same registration, last transaction 6 April 2009, value £519,475. I guess these are the bits of land bought by Haughey mentioned above by Bd and @26th of foot I am curious to know the names of the registered owners but not curious enough to pay.

Feu duty was done away with twenty (?) years ago. I hope you’re not still paying yours, Bd. Maybe WH lets his land to celtic for a peppercorn.

The land inside the red boundary includes the football ground. Or does WH own all the land within the red boundary except the ground itself?

That’s usually a very reliable guide. Uniquely the difference in the present case is that they have by SP standards a reasonably well oiled machine that needs a light touch - Clement? Rangers need someone who will bang heads together and deflate egos and light a fire under the team - Muscat?

Muscat was never much of a ‘Ger, though. Didn’t have the status of GvB.

Not sure about celtic’s status in that, Bd. Were celtic the sellers? The low price suggests they were not. Is the land “dead land” or do celtic use it in some way?

When you find out, let me know if there’s a cure for it.

If the new chap is Clement, he’ll be gone at Christmas and the next one by Easter.

er, I think nowadays we say “within budget”.

I agree. Charlie Miller had a bit of a career but not the stellar one predicted by Hateley.

I’ve defected to Muscat. God knows why. As others have said, the spectre of Le Guen possibly.

You’re right. Hungary were first. What a team they had. I was being parochial as usual. Hearts were first to do it officially by name. Danny Ferguson, normally a right half, number 4 trotted out with 7 on his back and took post on the right of the back four. “ GerrupyurrwingFerrgyssun” the helpful cry from the terracing.

The old stuff was more 3-2-2-3. Two fullbacks either side of the centre-half. Two half-backs, left and right. Two inside forwards, left and right. Centre furrit, wingers either side. One half-back tended to be further back than the other, likewise one of the inside men. Rangers were playing a 4-2-4 before the system was invented. The earliest example being: Shearer, Davis, Patterson, Little McMillan, Stevenson Scott, Millar, Baird, Wilson

So, Marcel Keizer it is then.

Is London as a venue a good sign? Handy for Clement but also Eustace. Probably rules out McInnes. For some reason, I’m starting to lean towards Muscat. I didn’t like him as a player because he was a nutcase. It’s not going to be him, though. He’s still in Yokohama so there isn’t any need for the appointments committee to go to London. Tokyo would have been a big clue.

Ah, John Greig, the Prince of them all because he could do full back and centre forward as well often in the same ninety minutes. Nine the main striker or centre forward as we used to call them, got that, I think. The ten? The nine’s chief assistant? Seems to be Ralphie Brand’s role. He actually wore number ten on his back and actually scored more than the nine. Role reversal.

He beats the Baggies 3-0 in a derby, albeit a sort of second tier derby and gets his jotters. The Brummagem Board must have been expecting six.

For the benefit of the really aged what are sixes, eights and tens? Do sevens play any part in the game? I’m guessing that the numbers refer to pitch areas and or playing roles.

Derek Ferguson aged just over sixteen but played in a friendly aged fifteen. Durrant was a geriatric nineteen.

I think I have the solution to all Rangers’ problems. Gerraballuprrapark.

For twenty minutes before Roofe has to go off.

I’m not very excited to tell the truth but the pre-match anticipation is always there whether it be dread or hope. Today it’s hopeful dread.

Sadly true. Not unrealistic though.

I eschew this cerebral stuff. Gerrituprrapark is all you need to know.