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BBC Scotland would manage to make an erse of the world cup final. Consequently coverage of Scottish football by them is worthless if it's presented by a shower of dummies and halfwits.

Not sure if this could be linked to heading the ball but i'm curious to see the percentage of ex-footballers that have developed Alzheimer's is compared to those who have this affliction but have never headed a football.

Do you mean someone like Kris Boyd ?

Kerrydale Meltdown ‏@KerryFail 3m3 minutes ago

Just cancelled SEVCO sports news for there coverage and forgot the game is on sky sports at the wkend, how do a cancel the cancellation?

 

I wonder if the fud watched the coverage on Sky of ra sellik yesterday. Mmmmmmmmmm, probably not.

The team are full of confidence

I'm delighted with what I've been hearing. Every player seems to push the line that we won't change our game no matter who we are playing. That fills me with confidence - attack the scum and we'll be in the final.

Halliday, Foderingham and Tavernier up next.

He either should have been lifted for being drunk or he shouldn't. Either way I don't see how the police get to redistribute tickets on a whim.

I think the drunk will be happier that his ticket "got lost" rather than he woke up in a cell the next morning facing a day at court with further possible consequences to his personal life.

I take your point that summary justice appears nowhere in the list of duties of a cop. But I'm more practical in my outlook - the issue was dealt with and it cost the tax payer nothing.

Yeh, totally agree, if you are behind any of the goals you need a pair of binoculars ffs!

I remember saying the same about Ibrox when I was a kid Coop.

Two really sad stories.

I don't see mine as sad at all RS. The guy was lucky he didn't get lifted for being drunk at the stadium. There was no way he was gaining entry. Had he asked for the tickets face value he'd have got it. Some bear got to see a match rather than a ticket going to waste.

It was less than 2 years ago he was supposed to be going to Sheffield and treble his wages.

A few years ago at one of our finals at Hampden I saw a guy getting refused entry because he was bevvied. He tried to sell his ticket at over the odds causing a couple of Rangers fans to shout and bawl at him. A cop took the ticket off him and handed it to a bear before telling the drunk to beat it before he got lifted.

A similar thought came into my head on Sunday there. It was my daughters birthday and I thought back to her 16th when I took her to Lisbon to see us defeat Sporting.

He said: “I spoke to George Parsonage at the Glasgow Humane Society over the weeks and he was a great solace to me. "

I take it that will be George's son, maybe also called George ? As far as I remember the father had retired a good few years ago.

They should sell replicas. My house needs a disguise.

 

On a smaller scale a print would be good.

Last year I would have bought a replica for my house. Fortunately though the wee bigot who lived opposite me moved away a few months ago.

I still have a smile thinking of his reaction when I hung a Union Flag out my upstairs window the day before the final in Manchester.

There is something in the pipeline for EH, some sort of community project thingy. Big Rab Marshall out the Louden is involved.

The tarred one is currently firing out questions to GCC about meetings held between them and Rangers relating to redevelopment plans for the area surrounding Ibrox . Naturally, because Rangers are involved it is all down to conspiracy and state aid rather than renovating an area in need of it.

Boydie was brilliant for Killie in the season before we signed him

That's true mate. But many predicted that he'd return to being a useless waste of a jersey 5 minutes after he re-signed for us.

Very nice mate. I'll be in touch soon.

Maybe I'm being a bit thick but I thought we had done our 3 year disqualification period from Europe therefore any success in the cup would automatically put us in euro spot??? Is that not the case??

As far as I thought, we can qualify if we've produced 3 years accountants books, which we will have complied with soon. Was that not why we couldn't play in Europe ?

The manky mob have been very lucky in key games this season. A thing I've noticed is that any team going straight at them will get a result. They've got away with it because not many sides do attack them. I said here last week or so that if MW tells our guys to keep going forward we have a chance of winning. Only a fool would think we won't lose a goal. I don't see that as a problem though. The scum are nowhere near as good as they think they are.

Oh, and put money on that Johanson guy getting sent off. He's a liability.

I'd a great day out yesterday. Well done our guys on a thoroughly deserved victory.

I still find it difficult to believe they've got a wage bill of £24m.

Since we got chucked out the then SPL they've been constantly selling off their best players and replacing them with cheaper replacements no doubt on much less wages.

I say again that our first team squad will be smaller than previous years hence its wage bill will be smaller than previous.

Won't that be taken into account regards ST renewal prices?

Rab - in 2014/15 their wage bill was £37.8 million and that was down 3 million from the previous year.

An article from 2012 about Desmonds financial jiggery-pokery -

https://footballtaxhavens.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/dermot-desmonds-contribution-to-the-gfc/

Is Waghorn anywhere near ready for a wee return in this match?,or is that him until next season?,if he was going to play against the bheasts you would think he would get some game time in this match!

MW is quoted today as saying Waghorn will not be fit for the game against the scum. No chance he'll make this one if that's true Ian.

Yes you can buy them via the link in the original post.

Do you know that I didn't even know there was a "main site" ? I thought this bit was the only one available.

"Thirty years ago today Graeme Souness was paraded as manager of Rangers – an appointment that transformed Scottish football and helped trigger a revolution in the game in England, the reverberations of which can still be felt today.

In fact, Rangers’ narrow victory over Dumbarton on Tuesday night, which secured their promotion to the Scottish Premiership, completed a cycle of three decades which commenced when Souness arrived at Ibrox.

Not that such a prospect seemed likely on April 8, 1986, although Souness seemed a logical appointment for Rangers, who had not won the Scottish title since 1978 and had fallen behind their arch-rivals, Celtic. They had also been overtaken by the upstarts of Aberdeen and Dundee United, the so-called New Firm of the Scottish game.

Rangers, moreover, were mired in an outmoded style personified by Jock Wallace, who had been manager in the 1970s and had only been given the job again in 1983 because the Ibrox board failed to prise Alex Ferguson from Aberdeen and Jim McLean from Dundee United. By the spring of 1986 intense fan disenchantment with Wallace, once a favourite, forced the board’s hand and he resigned.

As a dynamic captain of Scotland and previously Liverpool, the capture of Souness was a major coup for the Ibrox directors and, in particular, David Holmes, who had learned from this correspondent that Souness wanted to take over at Ibrox.

Souness told me in September 1985, during an interview for a BBC documentary series on Scottish football: “I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I’d still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.

“I’ll settle for manager. Jock Wallace – watch out!”

The TV series was about to be screened when Souness succeeded Wallace and the footage had been cut from the final edit, only to be restored frantically by the producers in time for the press launch. By then it had been widely noted that Souness had never played in the Scottish leagues.

Such talk was a matter of supreme indifference to Souness, who had an altogether more expansive vision in mind, aided by the fact that English clubs had been banned from Europe in the wake of the Heysel Disaster in 1985. When he took up his position at Ibrox full time in July 1986, Souness began a sweep of England internationals, starting with Chris Woods and Terry Butcher.

By the time he had finished, Souness had added Trevor Francis, Mark Hateley, Trevor Steven, Gary Stevens and Ray Wilkins to his roster, not to mention seasoned English league players like Mark Falco, Trevor Hurlock and Graham Roberts. The traditionally restrictive pay policy at Ibrox had been discarded, an act which was clearly ominous for Aberdeen and which was a factor in persuading Ferguson to move to Old Trafford in November 1986.

At that stage Rangers, partly fuelled by the biggest club pools operation in the UK, had a greater turnover than the relatively moribund Manchester United. In September 1988, Souness joined the Rangers board, having upped the ante by persuading David Murray to buy the club for £6 million.

His most sensational and influential signing was completed the following summer – that of Maurice Johnston, a former Celtic striker and, far more significantly, a Roman Catholic. Johnston was on the verge of a return to the Parkhead club from Nantes when Souness intervened to divert him to Ibrox in the summer of 1989.

At a stroke, Souness had done away with the sectarian signing policy practised at Ibrox for the better part of a century. In 1989, too, Rangers’ position as the best provided club in Britain was assured by another calamity for English football, the Hillsborough Disaster.

Having rebuilt their stadium comprehensively after the 1971 Ibrox Disaster, Rangers were hardly affected by the Taylor Report into Hillsborough and the provisions which forced a wholesale reconstruction of English grounds, a civic engineering project comparable to that of the Channel Tunnel.

In Scotland Celtic would be driven to the verge of bankruptcy by the need to overhaul Parkhead, which had the largest standing terracings of any British ground.

In England, it was immediately clear that such colossal expenditure could not be financed by traditional revenue streams.

In response, English first division clubs resigned en masse from the Football League to form the Premier League, which was launched in 1992, underwritten by a broadcast rights deal with Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB.

Rangers, though, were still top dogs in Britain, as they demonstrated by beating Leeds United home and away in the inaugural Champions League.

By that time Souness was manager of Liverpool, having taken over on April 16, 1991 – 25 years ago next Thursday. At Ibrox, though, Walter Smith extended his legacy, taking Rangers to nine successive championships and equalling Celtic’s record under Jock Stein, but the wealth available to English clubs had swung the pendulum.

Murray tried to keep Rangers on parity and allowed Smith’s successor, Dick Advocaat, to spend close to £80 million on signings. Murray’s endeavours to match salaries paid outside Scotland led him to the ill-fated Employment Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme and a consequent challenge by HMRC.

That issue – still be to be resolved prompted Lloyds Bank to order Murray to sell Rangers to Craig Whyte for £1 in 2011. The following summer, Whyte’s holding company had been liquidated and the team was forced to resume activity in the third division of the former Scottish Football League.

Tuesday’s win over Dumbarton means that next season the top flight of Scottish football will feature Rangers once again. “The profile of the Premier League in Scotland has been diminished,” said Souness of his former club’s absence.

“It’s not as interesting to people outside of Scotland as it was when Rangers were there.”

Nor, he might have added, have Rangers ever been as interesting to people outside Scotland as when he was in charge at Ibrox."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/08/how-graeme-souness-triggered-an-english-and-scottish-revolution/

Will t shirts be available to buy Frankie ?