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Diego Costa has lost the plot...then again, he never had it in the 1st place...that kick out in the chest at Skrtel was another example of his craziness, why the FA have decided not to punish him yet again is baffling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3wtKGgTuFw He will for sure repeat these type of 'offences' time and time again, he's a mental case.

Bad publicity involving Rangers gets the juices running for the Rangers haters...Ashley is revelling in it and the record newspaper is making money too.

This must be costing a fortune this carry on?

If you read the OP it may help you to understand mate

To think the media up here 'pushed' the idea TLB was EPL class because he thought he was...no-one except poor old Bolton swallowed it.

Bolton lost 0-2 against Ipswich to remain in the bottom 3 tonight. This coupled with Bristol City and MK Dons wins means they are now 4 points off the safety zone

Action always speaks louder than words lads...WELL DONE!!!

Full times: Sevilla 1-3 Man C. M'gladbach 1-1 Juve MC qualify from group with 2 games to spare Man Utd 1-0 CSKA PSV 2-0 Wolfsburg United go top of group.

Rooney (79) puts United 1-0 up at Old Trafford...good night for the Manchester clubs.

Not a bad substitute to have when 3-1 up...de Bruyne on for Sterling (73)

Juventus down to 10 men, Hernanes red card (53)

H-T Man City 3-1 ahead at Sevilla with M'gladbach and Juve drawing 1-1. If it stays that way City will have qualified from the group, and that's without Aguero, Silva and de bruyne Btw...City fans booed the CL anthem tonight again.

You guys are very good...thanks for clearing that up. :tu:

This... ...or this... http://gearbikes.com/

Whilst looking for more on this story I found this an Evening Times article...thought it best to place it in here. Sports Direct bid to block charity cash to Rangers Former Players Benevolent Fund over alleged trademark breach SPORTS DIRECT attempted to block an Ibrox fans group raising cash for the Rangers Former Players Benevolent Fund over an alleged trademark breach. The Evening Times has obtained a copy of a letter, dated August 21, from London-based Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP to James Blair, the Company Secretary of Rangers International Football Club plc, which relates to the sale of a season ticket card holder by the Sons of Struth. The SoS began selling the items to Gers fans after they were returned to the club by the widow of the late Colin Jackson, who helped set up the Rangers Former Players Benevolent Fund in 2001 alongside John Greig, Sandy Jardine and Peter McCloy and passed away earlier this year following a battle with leukaemia. The holders, which have the Rangers five star logo and ‘Rangers till I die’ on the front and the badge of the RFPBF and ‘contribution towards Rangers Former Players Benevolent Fund’ on the back, were available for a minimum donation of £1 and raised a four-figure sum for the charity. On January 27 this year, Sports Direct took control of Rangers’ registered trademarks when the former Ibrox board agreed a multi-million pound loan deal with the Mike Ashley-owned firm. The letter states: “Naturally our client is concerned that such use may have an adverse effect on sales of genuine Rangers products and the validity of the relevant registered marks. Consequently, please ensure that your client takes immediate action to defend this infringement.” In May, Sports Direct called an EGM in a bid to force the Rangers board to repay the £5million loan to Mr Ashley and gained a High Court injunction that prevents any Ibrox directors from revealing the details of the merchandise deal between the sportswear firm and Rangers Retail Limited. Chairman Dave King last week insisted Rangers would not be ‘cowed’ by the threat of legal action and stated his intention to ensure ‘that Sports Direct is legally and financially held accountable for its failures’. Rangers fans are continuing to boycott Sports Direct stores and official Gers merchandise in protest at Mr Ashley’s Ibrox influence and Craig Houston of the Sons of Struth told the Evening Times: “I was shocked and stunned when the club approached me to say that they had received the legal complaint about us raising money for the Benevolent Fund. “It was perfectly clear that nobody was making profit from the season ticket holders. We were turning up at Ibrox with buckets, people were putting a donation in and they got a season ticket holder with the Benevolent Fund badge on it. It was very clear that every penny would go to the Benevolent Fund.” The Evening Times contacted Sports Direct for a reply but had received no response at the time of writing. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/13931530.Sports_Direct_bid_to_block_charity_cash_to_Rangers_Former_Players_Benevolent_Fund_over_alleged_trademark_breach/?

Mike Ashley launches legal challenge against Dave King Not much more I can copy and paste from the Herald/Scotland because they want a quid for me to subscribe and they ain't getting it, got this much though... MIKE Ashley has launched a legal move to have Dave King thrown in jail. It was reported last night [Mon] that the Sports Direct boss has gone to court accusing King of breaching a gagging order forced on the Ibrox boss by his sportswear firm. It comes days after King criticised Ashley's business credentials and said he will hold Sports Direct accountable on behalf of Rangers fans. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13931544.Mike_Ashley_launches_legal_challenge_against_Dave_King/?

Typical Record headline 'THEIR VOW'!!!!

Is that legging it, cycle, bus, car or supercar mate Wish I was near there.

http://rangers.co.uk/news/club/card-display-volunteers-wanted/#.Vjd_ztzl061.twitter ARE you free on Thursday and Friday this week to help lay out a card display for Saturday? This Saturday, when Rangers take on Alloa in another important league clash, the Club and the fans will once again remember and pay tribute to those who lost their lives and have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. There will be a card display in the Sandy Jardine Stand and we are looking for volunteers to assist in setting out the cards on Thursday and Friday this week from 10am till 4pm and again on Friday at 10am until finished. If you would like to volunteer please come to Argyle House Reception on Thursday and Friday 5th-6th November at 10am, ask for Jim Hannah, Supporters Liaison Manager. The card display will be one of the commemorative activities on the day which also include: Wreath laying ceremony at the Ibrox Disaster Memorial Plinth. 1.30pm; Pre-match can collection in support of Poppyscotland; Two sailors, soldiers and airmen will walk out of the tunnel with a large poppy and take this to be placed on the centre spot before the match. Two veterans will lead the teams on to the pitch and assemble with the teams around the centre circle for the act of Remembrance. One minutes silence to remember all those who have lost their lives in the service of their country 207 (City of Glasgow) Battery, part of 105 Regiment Royal Artillery, will fire an L118 artillery gun to mark the start and the end of the minute silence The first team will once again wear a unique poppy strip to pay our respects to all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Tickets are still remaining for Saturday’s game against Alloa and are available from the Ticket Centre, the Ticket Hotline and via the Online Sales channel priced from £18 adults, £13 concessions and £5 juniors. More information can be found HERE.......http://www.rangers.talent-sport.co.uk/PagesPublic/ProductBrowse/productHome.aspx

What's he going on about?

I reckon if we hadn't shot Forrest (22) and McLean (23) we'd have won the CWC that year - easily..Celtic would never had got 2 never mind 9 in a row...we had a cracking team all round back then, lacking two young prolific goal-scorers. McLean had 49 from 69.

Rangers’ manager wants to restore the glory days and match the magnificence of the facilities and fanbase at his unlikely home in the Scottish Championship Mark Warburton is deserving of a fresh narrative. The man who enjoyed eye-catching success with Brentford cannot be discussed without the asterisk of his past: as a city trader in London, a career he boldly abandoned to pursue one in football. “I understand why,” the Londoner said. “I just think people have heard all that now. I had a long time in the city and took a lot of things from there. I left there nearly 11 years ago now. We have to move on.” Warburton’s disregard for convention was evident again in the summer, when he took the manager’s post at Rangers – stuck in Scotland’s second tier – rather than remain in England. The 53-year-old saw the benefits of a blank canvas as 16 players headed through the Ibrox exit door. Now, a team who were ridiculed are trusted with young prospects from England’s top flight. With 11 wins from as many league games and a fresh confidence blowing through a club that had been wrecked by chaos off the pitch and regular tedium on it, Warburton has been vindicated. In his own mind, that will not fully be the case until a loftier target has been hit. “Champions League football,” Warburton replies instantly when asked about his ultimate Glasgow goal. “Absolutely. Not ‘job done’, but major target achieved. This is a Champions League club. “I think managers and coaches, if they have been out of work for a year, don’t go into an interview and ask questions they need to ask because people need to work. Sometimes, instead of all the questions you need to ask, it becomes: ‘I need this job.’ “For me and David Weir [Warburton’s assistant], we had to go in there and ask the blunt questions: obvious ones about the financial stability of the club, the long-term health and welfare of the club. Equally, we were asked some pretty blunt questions about why we left Brentford. “I was offered good jobs in England. I was offered three or four more Championship clubs, which was very flattering. This job came up and I looked at the potential, the opportunity. You look around here, a Champions League training ground with hydrotherapy pools, saunas, top-class gyms, undersoil-heated pitches. It is magnificent. “I have seen and watched Ibrox on a Champions League night. What an opportunity. If we can get it right here, with the magnificent fanbase the club has, it could be a tremendous experience.” To some, this will all sound incongruous. Rangers’ plunge into administration, liquidation and Scotland’s third division was notable enough without the general decline in standards which has seen the country’s clubs and international team regress to the realms of the also-ran. It seems deliberate that Warburton chose to ignore the gory detail of recent times. “Everyone tells me about that and sometimes it is good to come in fresh because you aren’t bogged down,” he explains. “There is no lack of appreciation at all of what the fans, players and others have been through, it would be disrespectful to say otherwise, but I can’t turn round and say: ‘I know how you were feeling.’ I’d be lying. “You couldn’t not be aware of what happened. Through media channels, the intensity of focus is quite incredible. You couldn’t fail to see what was going on. When I was a kid, teams like Rangers, Milan and Red Star Belgrade were European giants. It wasn’t that long ago, 1993 or 1994, Celtic and Rangers were the sixth and seventh highest payers in the UK. “So you know the size of the club, you know where it has been. We know where this club has been over the last four years but we equally know where it has to get back to. That’s what we have been tasked with.” Warburton provides enlightening, enjoyable company. He has been disappointed at an apparent “acceptance” that Scotland cannot produce top-level footballers. The former Enfield and Boreham Wood player was warned about Glasgow but quickly sensed unwarranted scare stories. “This is a great city to live in,” he says. Warburton is conscious of two things: not being viewed as a new-age, know-all revolutionary and not dismissing the extent of Rangers’ task when eventually going toe-to-toe with Celtic. “There is no lack of respect or appreciation; Celtic have been hugely successful, Champions League football, selling players, making money,” he says. Warburton is fully versed in the ideology attached to the Old Firm. “You are expected to win. Rangers don’t lose,” he acknowledges. “Likewise, people said to me about just getting back into the Premier League and starting to build. David Weir said: ‘No.’ You have to accept that, that’s the challenge. “When Brentford got promoted from League One, 95% of the media said: ‘Just survive.’ Top, top people within the game phoned me up and said: ‘Congratulations. Now just get through that first season and survive.’ How do you go into a dressing room with players and say: ‘Just survive’? It is nonsense. Saying to these guys: ‘Just do enough’? It’s not how we work, I don’t think anyone can work like that.” Brentford, too, moved on. Their sacking of Marinus Dijkhuizen in late September seemed to emphasise the notion that dispensing with Warburton at the end of last season was an error. The intensely analytical approach of the London club’s owner, Matthew Benham, has itself been subject to criticism. So did Warburton raise a smile when Dijkhuizen departed? “People keep saying that to me but life is too short. The owner gave me a chance, which was a big call on his part. I hope I repaid that faith. I wish them well but I have moved on. “There was a frustration for me, that I didn’t want David and I to be painted as dinosaurs who didn’t embrace it [the Brentford strategy]. There are some very clever people there, the owner is a very intelligent man who is very successful in what he does. He has some outstanding ideas in terms of the data and research that they use.” Quite logically, Warburton would “love” to manage in England’s top league one day. “I maybe represent a massive risk because people would say my background is not steeped in football,” he says. “All we can do is prove ourselves. It’s about more than leagues, it’s about seeing that a club is built on solid foundations.” At that point, Warburton would enjoy backward glances. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/31/mark-warburton-rangers-champions-league-scottish-championship?

Got booked after 26 mins and 0-2 down at half time against Montrose.

I see Chelsea slumped to another defeat this afternoon...a wee bit off topic but, MOURINHO REACTION "Jose Mourinho has been asked nine questions. For the first seven of them he replied 'I have nothing to say'. Asked if he had a message to the fans: 'The fans are not stupid.' Asked if he was worried about his job, he said 'no'." Sky Bet have slashed the odds on Jose Mourinho leaving Chelsea following their latest loss, with the 'Special One' now just 2/5 to be the next Premier League manager to leave their post.

Maybe he's talking to Lampard about signing for Rangers when his contract runs out next summer...no wait, he'll be 38 by then...too old!