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That'll be Lyon. Go 0-3, because after that performance we need all the help, no matter how improbable, we can get.

Dessers, then.

The best thing that could happen would be the implementation of a/the 'Super League', breakaway or not. This would enable us lesser mortals, to restructure within each country, and create new cross border league(s), or other competition(s). Once the 'superteams' had buggered off to play in Kuala Lumpur, Quezon City, Singapore, Shanghai, and the like, the also rans would be kicking at an open UEFA door.

Hard to tell, as you've had so many

Another one of your crackpot theories, I recall

The next goal is likely to be crucial.

One of the wurst..........

Illyria Deliria, as we say in the Garngad.

Josh Windass. He wasn't great, was he?

Voddie Bhoy (an allegedly appropriate soubriquet, others suggest) has a staggeringly bad recent record: one win in 13 matches, I believe, and that against the Sons of the (other) Rock, the mighty Gibraltar. It includes, of course, being the worst team to appear at the Euro Finals this year. I wonder how such a sad curriculum vitae would be greeted, and treated, by the suits and blazers at SFA HQ, by the press and other media, and by the tablecloths and Timberlands of the tartan 'army', if the manager responsible for such ignominy had a connection with Rangers, or, indeed, was merely of the Reformed Faith. Imagine the obloquy heaped upon his head, from every quarter. Actually, we need not speculate. We need only recall the vituperation rained upon Alex McLeish: a vicious shoeing with the sole purpose of hounding him out of the job. Clarke, however, seems to get a free pass. Incroyable! Peut etre, non.

Indeed, we do; and this is not a recent phenomenon. It was often put down to the manager and/or the Captain and senior pros, discouraging the creative ball players from displaying their skills fully, because such would show up the rest of the side, and upset them. On the other hand, while our more skilled types can appear stifled -and not always by the opposition- sometimes, just sometimes, say once or twice a match, on average, our duds look to be the duddest duds that ever donned football duds; and that must count for something, non?

Matondo may be the 'new' Kemar Roofe. Danilo seems to be moving, gingerly, towards Sebastian Rozental status (and, I hope, for, primarily, his sake, that I am unduly pessimistic, and that he can recover). Do we have an Oleg Kuznetzov de nos jours? I don't think that we have a latter-day Daniel Prodan on the books. Maybe in the next window, if we are desperate, enough. Who can forget the 'capture' of that Romanian International full-back, whom -bizarrely, insanely- we acquired, despite him having only one functioning knee joint? The strategy for Matondo must be, surely, to get him fit, and move him on, preferably in January. The Club must implement, forthwith, a four month course of fitness training and physiotherapy (even if he doesn't need the latter, because he might just think he does), and a course of hypnotherapy aimed at convincing him that he is Brian Laudrup. But, honestly, even if that comprehensive strategy worked, I don't think he is a 'keeper'. As for Danilo, I do think that the Club can only go through the medical card with him, and hope............

An intriguing proposal. It could be improved upon only by dismissal of M. Clement, and appointment, in his stead, of Mr Craig Levein.

We treat pigs very badly in this country. I blame Orwell.

Surely the emollient Cyrille should be the go-to guy for situations like this.....

Agreed. However, the error does not reduce the cogency of Woodhouse's analysis, which I fear is on the money.

Meanwhile in the real world, a midfielder, and boxer, observes:

It is small wonder that our centre forward is a stickler for politesse, and punctilio: his initials, after all, are CD.

It used to be said: 2 Rangers' supporters, 3 opinions. We may have moved on: 1 Rangers' supporter, 4 opinions.

We should do our talking on the park; and gloating, should we wish, off it.

"Our Dear Green Place" I thought that 'Suffer the little children' would have been more appropriate. And accurate.

They have been transferred to more important duties (with more O/T, too)

Not to be sniffed at, apparently.

Well, a pity that Philippe's mother did not name him Daniel, or I could call him 'Desperate Dan'

Nah. They would just have laughed at him. As they did before.