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Today! Alfredo Morelos!

The first tackle on Jack should have been yellow making the second pull around a yellow and red.

Hardie had a good game yesterday for Livi. 2 goals and an assist I think.

It is now a case of nobody wanting to lose face and try to repair the damage.

Did Graham Souness not remove all the ball boys during one game to waste time?

Of course the whole of Scotland were glued to their radio's for the Newcastle Facons v Edinburgh. I guess that is rugby but it is a guess.

Crowd 1727? Also Thommo stated that Lafferty led the line well for Sellick. The amount of times that the Champions was said was overkill to say the least. Also that sellick had beaten Kilmarnock 5-1 was repeated numerous times. Childish really.

Scores with his head so that is one box ticked.

I will write one for the Hibs game.

I can imagine they want any contact via an email as they then have a recorded complaint. Getting involved in conversations that could end in a "He said She said" discussion. If I was making a complaint I would want to do it via an email so as can show exactly what has been said..

The referee gave the keeper a yellow card followed by a red for a second yellow. then he was made attent that the keeper didn't have a yellow so retracted the red. Livi scored the penalty and almost directly after the kick-off a Hearts player was really sent off.

I wish he had said I am the Rangers manager I won't answer questions on Liverpool.

You deserve it mate for the shit you have to take at most grounds.

Would be good but I doubt it would work. Maybe a few Hearts fans that will donate tonight though. Top of the League? Budge has a different meaning now.

Perfect answer. Out of my own thoughts.

Give up your sky\BT account and take Rangers TV. That is the only answer for all football fans. PS, I mean for all clubs.

You shagging their Wives?

EVENTUALLY they began referring to it in blanket terms as the banter years. Exhausted by years of emotional distress and turmoil the Rangers supporters realised if they couldn’t laugh about the absurdities going on in the name of their own club then there could be only one other option. They were, after all, living through a farce of unprecedented proportions – a series of chaotic scenarios all unleashed upon them by a cast of characters, each one seemingly more ludicrous and impossible to believe than the next. Gallows humour had become a comforting last resort. But behind this thick haze of confusion things were being done to their club which were not in the slightest bit amusing. Millions upon millions of pounds were coming and going out the front doors of Ibrox in what looked for all the world like an organised – if barely legal – heist. Constant tales too of mobile phones being hacked or tampered with and of movements being closely monitored, all amid a lingering stench of intimidation and corruption. Synonymous with all of this became certain names, companies and individuals, all of them operating in the shadows, keeping careful distance from the spotlight of this pantomime’s headline acts and the public soap opera of betrayals and back-stabbings in the boardroom. But omnipresent nonetheless. Mysterious entities such as Margarita Trust and Blue Pitch Holdings for example – two of the original financial backers who helped to fund Charles Green’s initial £5.5million purchase of the club’s assets after Craig Whyte had driven it into the hands of the liquidators – became part of the lexicon. So just last week, when chairman Dave King told a court his regime has uncovered possible underworld links to a number of the club’s existing shareholders, it was nearly enough to wipe the smile off the face of a Rangers fanbase which has been finally enjoying football again thanks to the impressive work of Steven Gerrard. They may be equally surprised to learn today the Middle Eastern money man behind Blue Pitch is now talking about visiting Ibrox for the first time, six years after first becoming such a central part of the narrative. But Beirut-based lawyer Mazen Houssami is adamant he has nothing to hide. In fact in an exclusive interview with Record Sport he claims to have been one of this story’s many victims. “I mean, I didn’t buy the team because I wanted to make a business deal out of it,” he insists, if sounding a little bit unconvincing from all 3500 miles away. “I just love football and I love Rangers. That’s why I’m happy today that we are playing very well as this is the most important thing.” You’d be excused for thinking that sounds all a little too much like Lebanese for Rangersitis, the hoary old condition which first brought Green to town back in that hectic summer of 2012. A healthy dose of cynicism helps to stop the spread. But Houssami is not so detached from the realities of the legacy of suspicion left behind by Whyte, Green, Imran Ahmad et al. Blue Pitch still own four million shares but are one of four different stakeholders to have had a freeze placed on voting rights for failing to comply with the club’s requests for transparency. The others are Putney Holdings Limited, Norne Anstalt and ATP Investments Limited (thought to be a rebranded, less toxic version of Margarita). Houssami remains adamant he is the sole owner of Blue Pitch. That he is not a front man for others who might not be so keen to let their identities be known. “There are no guys from Blue Pitch, Blue Pitch is one person. Only me,” he says quite sternly. He also angrily refutes any suggestion of links to organised crime while painting the impression of a man who has been caught up in someone else’s sting. Houssami goes on: “I understand there will be suspicion in Scotland because of the storm that was caused by Charles Green. But to be frank, many of our rights were simply not respected by Charles Green and Imran Ahmad. “We decided back then not to file a law suit because we didn’t want to add to that storm. We just waited for the whole investigation into Green, Ahmad and everybody else and said nothing.” Which would all be very good was the name of Blue Pitch not still marked down on King’s list of the not-to-be-trusted. And Houssami accepts that, when King blew the whistle last week, he was almost certainly pointing a finger in the direction of the 10 per cent of shareholders who are still denied voting rights. He says: “Yes, he is probably speaking about investors from within this group and I don’t personally know which shareholders specifically had their voting rights frozen. “There was Blue Pitch and Margarita but we were not the only two shareholders in that group. “I don’t know who they all are and I can’t talk on their behalf. Maybe some of them are very good people and maybe some of them are linked to some criminal activity. I don’t know. “But I do remember when we bought our shares we had to be screened and scanned by the banking institutions before we could place our subscription.” Houssami may be given the chance to cash in on his holding now King has grudgingly agreed to comply with the Takeover Panel’s demands he makes an offer for all remaining shares. But he’s giving little away. He goes on: “I didn’t get any offers so there’s been no decision to make. I doubt anybody will get an offer so this is why I say it’s too early to talk about it. “There was a specific time when I was ready to buy a bigger shareholding in the team. But many of the shareholders were reluctant to sell and I understand that because we all love the team.” There goes that rampant Rangersitis again. But Houssami – this lawyer in some office block in Beirut – can’t be relieved of it by Scottish cynicism alone. On the contrary he goes on: “I do watch the matches. I’m telling you, I’m emotionally connected to this team, not professionally. It’s not a business deal for me. “Football is the most important part and I am really pleased with the work Stevie Gerrard has been doing. I don’t know if the success the team is now having will be reflected in the value of the shares. I just hope one day, very soon, I will be watching the team live in Glasgow.” The thought occurs that Blue Pitch might not be afforded the warmest of welcomes. That perhaps Beirut may be a better option. But an indignant Houssami says: “Well, I know I share with the fans of the club the same emotions. So I don’t see why I would not be made welcome.” https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/owner-rangers-investors-blue-pitch-13701139

Welcome Matt.

Ready!!!!

Okay hands up who thinks Flanagan is good? Thought so no hands.

Morelos last week was just inside the penalty box.

Rangers shouldn't renegue tickets and let Celtic off with a large policing bill.