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I have not seen the post match interview so I can't really comment,but I see what you're saying SA

I never have and never will like Levein,he's a tosser IMO. He is just a stubborn arrogant twat,again IMO. But if he gets results for Scotland then I'll support him,right now he isn't getting results so he should stop being so bumptious and stop treating Scotland fans with disrespect,prove yourself first and then you can be as arrogant as you want,TIT!!

Bollocks to the chunt. I am a ST holder at Ibrox because I can afford to have one,I don't get to all the games due to work commitments,but it doesn't make me a better fan than any other Rangers fan. As for Scotland I don't follow them the same as I do Rangers for the same reason,does that make me less of a fan??,I don't think so. I also know for a fact that a lot of the Tranny Army don't follow their club side the same as they follow Scotland,but don't forget they see following Scotland as an Holiday for most of the time.

I never seen that BD, what happened?, I was in the pub watching it with Frankie:)

Much better from Scotland tonight,a bit of pride restored IMO. I do think the penalty was soft and if it had have been in the Spanish box I'm not so sure it would have been given?. However we played well tonight and we were just up against a better team,I thought all the Scotland players played well,especially the Rangers players with Shagger our MOTM,he will be generating a lot of interest with his current form and was very unlucky not to save the penalty!!!,McManus was at fault for the 3rd goal without doubt but to be fair he also had a good game under the guidance of Sir David Of Weir!!!. Hopefully Levein will have learned a bit about his players tonight,after Fridays' fiasco,and we are definately not out of it if we can carry on from tonight,the next three games are far more important than tonights result as no-one expected us to get anything from the game.Onwards and upwards for now,and thank feck we had the Rangers players playing tonight.

WHEREVER you are, whatever you are doing, and whatever opinion you are free to express, we are once again approaching the time of year when we remember those whose sacrifice grants us the freedom to do all of those things. Of course chosing what football team to support and going to watch them and encourage them in their efforts is just one of the many freedoms - however trivial - we and the people of so many other countries enjoy. And take for granted. Which is why it is correct that as a week of Remembrance approaches and we prepare to wear our poppies, not only with pride, but also with humble gratitude, football should play its part in giving thanks. In the past though, any request for a simply act of Remembrance and homage to the fallen, has somehow sparked off controversial debate and protest in Scotland. No wonder, as some of my buddies will testify, I often refer to my homeland as a dark wee country. South of the border they do things differently, and in England football joins the rest of this nation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in remembering the fallen. Television pictures from all the matches in the Premiership show crowds of up to 75,000 falling silent for a minute. Up here though, that is not always the case. Four years ago, when Celtic played St Mirren at the old Love Street on Remembrance Sunday, there was no silence. The St Mirren chairman, Stewart Gilmour later said it was an oversight. Let us just think about that crass admission for just a moment or two. A quiet moment or two. In the midst of all those poppies, the night after the Festival of Remembrance from the Royal Albert Hall had been shown live on television, and following the Queen leading the nation in an act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph - also live on television - Stewart Gilmour forgot it was Remembrance Sunday. Clearly, by his actions, we will FORGET them is Gilmour's mantra. Celtic are due to visit St Mirren's new ground on November 14this this year, Remembrance Sunday, in a match which will be broadcast live by ESPN. Gilmour remains the St Mirren chairman. Perhaps this year someone will remind him of the day's significance. There have been other occasions too when things have not been right. Such as two years ago when Celtic played at home and, according to the club tannoy announcer, the crowd were asked to show their appreciation in what he described as the "Celtic Way" by joining in a minute's applause. Let me state right here, that I was not the only journalist in the press box who chose not to applaud, but to stand in bare-headed silence. And let me also make it clear also that there were plenty of Celtic supporters in the areas around the press box, season ticket holders and corporate backers, who did likewise. Maybe their personal memories were off a dad or grandad, an uncle or brother who, had first taken them to watch Celtic when they were small, and who had fought in either of the 20th century's two world wars. Or perhaps they were thinking of a son or a daughter, a nephew or niece, a brother or sister, a friend, or the son or daughter of a friend, Celtic fans all, who have fallen more recently, or who are still serving on the front line. Or maybe they were just giving their own quiet thanks for their freedom to be at Parkhead and support Celtic. A freedom won by the fallen they were honouring. Whatever their personal thoughts, they vastly outnumbered the small group of protestors, away to the right of the main stand ,who had objected to Celtic, in common with all other SPL clubs, wearing a poppy on their shirts. Both sections though were even more vastly outnumbered by the 50,000 or so who followed Celtic's official instruction and applauded. Last year, on Remembrance Sunday, Celtic travelled to Falkirk, and according to one highly informed source, who is close to the Falkirk boardroom, chairman Martin Ritchie understood Celtic would have liked Falkirk to ditch their preferred minute's silence in favour of a round of applause. It is to his, and his club's eternal credit that Falkirk chose to attempt to honour the fallen in a quiet and dignified way. That they could not, and that the silence was broken by booing and singing from travelling supporters, was Scotland's Shame, and one of the reasons why I often despair of the land of my birth as a dark wee country. It was also Sky Sports' shame that they masked the sound of this shameful episde by muting the it, though the booing could be clearly heard on foreign channels and on BBC Radio Scotland. Sky then tried to explain this piece of blatant censorship by claiming they did not want to offend anyone. Sky Sports and Sky News are both in the business of journalism. Censorship is what all news organisations and all journalists should fight against, not collude in applying. Remember the horrific picture from the Vietnam war of the little girl running naked and in pain and terror from wounds from the napalm bombing? I DO! It was offensive, but it did much to heighten people's understanding of what was going on, giving power to the aruguments of those who wanted it stopped. Therefore, should the silence be broken at any ground this year, we, the nation, have a right to hear it, and all media organisations, be they television, radio or newspapers, have a duty to report it. However, let us hope that on Saturday November 13 and Sunday 14th, when at Ibrox, where Rangers meet Aberdeen, at Tannadice, where Dundee United face Kilmarnock, at Hamilton, where Inverness are the visitors, at Easter Rd, where Motherwell visit, at McDiarmid Park, where St Johnstone face Hearts, and in Paisley, where Celtic travel to play against St Mirren, in a match beamed live on ESPN throughout Britain, silence falls for a minute for an act of Remembrance. It would be Scotland's Shame - yet again, - if anything other were to happen. http://davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.com/2010/10/remembrance-and-football.html

Chris Maguire v Iceland U21 http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/chris-maguire-iceland-u21-7175163/

Monday, 11 October 2010 Union Bears and the 'Scottish football fans for the reintroduction of standing at SPL matches' campaign. As some people may be aware, a campaign regarding the reintroduction of safe standing to Scottish football stadiums was due to commence on the 30 October 2010. Supporters of all clubs have been approached by the organisers and were asked to display banners in their respective stadiums. As one of the perennial goals of The Union Bears is to be allowed to stand at Rangers matches, this campaign was regarded as one that the group as a whole could unite behind in the hope that it could commence discussions and sensible debate on a safe standing area being created at Ibrox. While we have no ties or even remote interest with any other Scottish club and their support, we had no objections to going ahead with the "United Front" required, due to the fact that it stretched simply to displaying a banner with a simple message at the same time as at the grounds of all other participating clubs. It is therefore with great regret that we feel we can no longer show our support to this campaign. Several examples of the organizers being, to phrase it politely, "Less than impartial" have been brought to our attention recently and it is our belief that collaborating with such individuals would jeopardize our relationship with our fellow Rangers supporters. As we still aim to campaign for standing to be brought back to Ibrox but do not wish to compromise our reputation, we have therefore decided to proceed with our own project. This will involve banners being displayed, a petition being set up, requests sent to the club and a Facebook page for Rangers fans to show their support and express their opinions. The group as a whole have, and always will, aspire to opening discussions with the club regarding the issue of safe standing, for a variety of reasons. These include improved atmosphere and displays, broadening of choice for the support, the opportunity for like minded individuals to come together in the same area of the stadium and the club moving in line with many of Europe's forward thinking and progressive clubs. Please allow us to reiterate that this decision is not simply due to group reluctance to co-operate with supporters of other clubs or wishing to remain independent for the sake of it. We are simply disgusted that certain people can ask for and expect a "United Front" whilst displaying such blatantly vile and poisonous bias and actions against our club and support. The Facebook group can be found at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161440210540495 or if you do not use Facebook then you can stay informed by joining our email list (All you need to do is send an email to RangersSafeStanding@hotmail.co.ukThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with the subject as 'Email Subscription' and you will be added to our list).

It just shows how good Barry Ferguson is and has been for all of his career,he is still head & shoulders above any of our current midfielders,and yet we still hear how over rated he is especially from fans outwith the OF and from some Rangers fans.Without doubt he is the best homegrown midfielder of his era.

Aye,is there something in the Scottish coaching manual that tells coaches not to make a sub until at the very least 70min???

2-1 Iceland, another superb strike,that'll be that then,glorious failure

1-1,two crackin goals

HT 0-0, the young guys are playing well,a 1-0 win will do them so hopefully keep playing as they are and they'll get through

Monday, 11 October 2010 ALLAN McGREGOR AND THE SFA WINSTON CHURCHILL once turned his magnificent oratory on Russia, describing it as an enigma, wrapped in a riddle and shrouded in a mystery. If the Greatest Ever Briton was alive today, and if he turned his attention to more mundane matters, then he may well have used the same words to decribe the Scottish Football Association. Now, not for a moment do I believe George Peat and Stewart Regan favour the the killing grounds of Stalin's Gulags, but they do seem to have a similar liking for secrecy. WHY? For surely if you have nothing to hide, why hide it? It would appear though, within the sixth floor at Hampden there exists an increasingly small cabal of men who hold power, and who do not favour justice being seen to be done. Many may believe that Hibernian 's Rod Petrie, who is chairman of the General Purposes Committee, is seeking to run it behind the same Iron Curtain of secrecy with which he runs Hibs. Why this should be so is indeed an enigma. And a riddle. A mystery too. Take the case of the one match ban given to Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor. What he did in the match against Aberdeen when he aimed a kick - which missed - at Chris Maguire, was not merely stupid. And not only unnecessary. IT WAS AN ACT OF LUNACY! McGregor deserved to be punished, if only for being so stupid, especially after his disgraceful antics in the match against Hibs a few weeks ago. If his action had been spotted at the time he would surely have been sent off, and Rangers chances of staging their remarkable fightback to win would have followed him down the tunnel. There should be no blame attached to Willie Collum, who refereed a difficult encounter better than I've seen any other official perform this season. Nor should either linesman or the fourth official carry the can. They can't have eyes in the back of their heads. Nor should there be any sidetracking by referring to the incident involving Darren Young's stamp on Lee McCulloch. In effect, and despite what many Rangers supporters may think, McGregor got what he deserved. You have to feel sorry for Walter Smith, who once remarked that one Andy Goram in any manager's career is more than enough. Goram though, for all his off the field high jinks, did not behave on it as McGregor has on too many occasions. In my view, and I say it again to underline the opinion, McGregor got exactly what he deserved. It may help him to learn his lesson. But don't bet on it. So there it is, my view, clearly stated and with not only my name, but my picture too, at the top to make it clear who I am. There's nothing anonymous or anything secret about it. Unlike the SFA's Video Review Panel which acts in the shadows like some sort of furtive spy operating behind enemy lines. Let's start at the beginning. The McGregor incident occurs, the match officials all miss it, but it is highlighted on Sky by Andy Walker and forms a great deal of the Monday morning newspaper coverage of the match. What follows is a prolonged period of silence, with the news that McGregor had been reported to the SFA not emerging until Thursday of last week. We are not told who made the report. The SFA referees' supervisor? The SPL delegate? A paperclip counter at the SFA? Wee Shuggie frae Shettleston? And so the enigma becomes a riddle, which is a mystery to all but that small cabal. Then there is the ten day delay. One report claimed the reason was George Peat was on holiday and that Stewart Regan had not taken up his post as chief executive, therefore there was no executive present within the SFA to instigate proceedings. Although that report carried no direct quote from anyone at the SFA. Secrecy again! What we were told is that a three man Video Review Panel, of an ex referee, an ex player and an ex manager , and chaired by Sandy Stables of the Aberdeenshire and District FA, would sit in judgement. We were not told who the former player, referee and manager were. Why? It is inconcievable that any of the three had a Rangers connection. Or a Motherwell connection, as that is the team McGregor will be absent against. Or, despite the fact the chairman was Sandy Stables from the Aberdeenshire and District FA, any of the three would have an Aberdeen connection, given the fact the incident happened against the Dons. Surely too, the SFA would know the problems they would be piling up for themselves if either an ex Celtic player or manager judged a Rangers player. So that's Rangers, Motherwell, Aberdeen and Celtic removed from the equation. So just who did sit on the Video Review Panel? Justice, should not merely be done....it should be SEEN to be done. Anything else merely opens the door for all the crackpots and conspiracy theorists out there who think everyone is against their club. When Churchill was talking about Russia, he was using the contemporary term for the Soviet Union, where the dictators used secrecy to stay in power. The SFA would do well to remember what happened to it in the end. http://davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.com/

The boy Stokes has a reputation for lunging!!,however the commentery is different and the reaction from the BHEASTS is different!! http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/Disciplinary/ReviewPanel/Celtic%20v%20Hibs_WMV9_Widescreen_640x360.wmv

Stokes v Hamill: the commentery really does prove how bias this prick Walker is!!! http://www.myvideo.de/watch/7768773/Stokes_v_Hamill

Shagger does look like a thug though!!!,maybe the below clip goes a way to find out who made the complaint??? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bqx7MA951o&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Mcshagger u wank[/ame]

Being too drunk can be the only way to watch Scotland

It's on sky4 I believe,although I'm sure there is a stream going for it

At Easter Road tonight,should be a good game. BILLY STARK admits steering Scotland into the Euro Championship finals would stand against anything he's achieved in his coaching career. The former Celtic assistant and Kilmarnock boss, who sends his Under-21s in against Iceland tonight, said: "A win would be up there with the highlights of my career. "At Celtic when we won the Scottish Cup in 1995 it ended seven years without a trophy and that was a huge relief. "I've other memorable nights such as promotion at Kilmarnock and winning the B&Q Cup with Hamilton. "It's been very satisfying working with this group since the first match, a friendly against Northern Ireland at Hamilton in November 2008. "Players have come and gone and others have come through and it's been a real pleasure coaching them and watching them develop. "I love watching guys such as Barry Bannan using the Under-21s as a springboard to go from the fringes of the reserves at Aston Villa to being a first-team player. "Gerard Houllier speaks well of him and was going to start him at Spurs last week until he changed his mind at the last minute so he rates him highly." The size of the task facing Stark's side at Easter Road tonight is highlighted by the amount of senior caps already earned by their opponents but the manager is adamant the spirit in his squad can more than compensate for their lack of exposure on the international stage. He said: "Iceland have 74 full caps in their Under-21 side which must be unheard of at this level. "Our experience compared with theirs is minimal but it's all relative and if some of our players were Icelandic they would have full caps too. "We have shown a strong mentality and that's going to be a big thing for us. "I'm not saying to them to go out and get a goal in the opening five minutes but we need to win and to do that we need to take risks and go forward at the correct times." Stark is adamant his squad have players in abundance to take the game to Iceland. He said: "We have a lot of forward-thinking players - Maguire, Murphy, Bannan, Goodwillie and McGinn." Murray Davidson is out injured, Scott Arfield banned and David Templeton and Jason Marr carrying knocks. Hull's Tom Cairney and Rangers kid Kyle Hutton have been drafted in.

Correct,I still find it hard to believe that ALL the match officials missed it!!!!.

Ah!,somebody else to share the tumbleweed with:)

Finished 2-2, never watched the extra time and still haven't checked who won,but it was a better game to watch than the Scotland game:) Scottish football supporter loyal:)

Whooooosh,cracking equaliser there for County

Currently 1-0 to Partick http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_alba/watchlive