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  1. The idea of putting more non Europeans in is ridiculous. Europe and South America are the bedrock of world football. Europe is hugely underrepresented at the World Cup and the only reason the Africans get their ridiculous amount of places is due to political pandering to win FIFA votes and Asia get their places due to the money flowing in and the potential media interest. North And Central America have steady but unspectacular teams. Oceania is basically New Zealand and a few little islands that are so weak that an Isle of Cumbrae select would give them a tanking. CONCACAF (North & Central America) have a history of corruption and woeful mismanagement and the United States and Mexico along with the stronger Central American sides would be likely to benefit from regular contact with South American teams and Mexican teams already compete in the Copa Libertadores, the South American version of the Champions League. Oceania Football Confederation basically has New Zealand and nothing else and taking the Asian route as Australia have with success would be a good idea in my opinion. The remaining OFC teams could compete in Asian pre qualifying and would likely be gone before the business end. My personal preference would be for the Americas to be combined and for the OFC to merge into the Asian AFC. I don't think America and Mexico would be happy to give up almost automatic World Cup places to slug it out with the likes of Paraguay and Ecuador for the lower qualifying slots and being way off the likes of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia in a combined Americas instead of generally strolling to a comfortable berth ahead of Costa Rica and usually another Latin team or occasionally a Caribbean side. New Zealand might not want to risk their regular Confederations Cup and Club World Cup spots either. Assuming the current regions continue I'd divide them like this... Europe 30 South America 7 North and Central America 5 Africa 3 Asia 3 - OFC team (NZ barring some strange happenings) enters later in qualifying I can't honestly believe UEFA seem to be happy that they'll only get 16 places in a 48 team tournament. FIFA seems to have a huge pro African bias despite most of their federations being riddled with corruption and government interference. The ramshackle stadiums and sub standard facilities outside South Africa and some of the North African nations really should have an impact on their their voting rights and number of entrants in World Cups. There are suggestions that Africa could have 8 automatic places and a potential playoff slot for the World Cup. The FIFA ranking system is a joke too as teams outside Europe and South America seem to play a lot of internationals and beat up on small nations regularly inflating their rankings. I'd have to argue that of the 48 best nations in world football judged on ability and footballing resources Europe would have over 30. The Americas would supply most of the rest. I'm not opposed to other nations taking part but an overhaul of the voting system to heavily favour Europe is needed.
  2. At the time Green seemed to be a million times better than Whyte but turned out nearly as bad. King is just sitting around doing nothing more than paying the basic bills but compared to the damage done by the past couple of regimes, he is just letting the club stagnate rather than driving it towards Armageddon. We really need another takeover to be properly competitive in Europe again but I can't see many takers for a club with virtually no commercial income and a TV deal worth a fraction of what the club deserves. The only decent money we have coming in are gate receipts and it is only because the fans have been loyal to a team among the worst ever to wear the blue shirts that there are any prospects for the future. And you can't really blame a team of lower league English players for being in a poor second place. As for Walter Smith, he clearly had good intentions by getting involved and his disagreement with what was going on during that era helped make it clear that another takeover was vital as they were selling the family heirloom china at the time with the abysmal merchandise deals and the likes. Walter has nothing to be ashamed for an he may have saved the club in the long term by making it clear Green was a problem.
  3. Pretty sure the figures that were being knocked around in 2008 stated that we made around £18-20m for our UEFA Cup run to the final. The money must be higher for a tournament 10 years on.
  4. The green in Penny Arcade is obviously the same shade as the green grassy slopes of the Boyne. Of course...
  5. The funny part is that there were players coming from Real Madrid, Lyon, Cruziero and AEK Athens along with several Premiership players in that group. I think Siena were still in Serie A at the time too. You'd actually think that was a decent group of players if you didn't know otherwise.
  6. Someone mentioned a 5XL shirt. Must have been a Kevin Kyle shirt that shrunk in the wash.
  7. Back on Championship Manager (before it became Football Manager) in 2002/3 version on Xbox, I was playing as HJK Helsinki and won a close Finnish league title race because of a striker called Miika Ilo from Telstar in the Netherlands. He was a Finn and I signed him and managed to get a team together with a lot of pace down the wings and a solid centre. I remember playing another game on the same game where during Rosenborg's long consecutive league run I decided to try to continue it. Signed a few decent players including Lorenzo Amoruso but ended up in EIGHTH place! Played well in the cups and was doing fairly well until about two thirds of the way through the season when a mixture of tiredness and injuries left Rosenberg threadbare and weak. A few old guys just totally broke down to be honest.
  8. I was playing as an English team in the mobile version and noticed Rangers lost to Edinburgh City in the same tournament! EEK! Surely we're not THAT bad.
  9. I'm kinda split over Ibrox. It would take a lot of money to get it to a level that would be totally acceptable but we don't have hundreds of millions for a complete renovation. The ground is in Govan which is bad news as it probably renders the land at a low level on top of this so selling the existing ground and getting land for a new stadium and making a tidy profit is highly unlikely. A half hearted patch up job is all we're likely to get for now. We've no TV deal of note, we've only Europa League to look forward to next season in all likelihood and and virtually no commercial income. We're living on the meagre income of only 40 odd thousand ticket sales per home match. I want to see Ibrox or a new state of the art ground with 80,000+ fans but we neither have the funding or success for that for now. Fixing the basic features of the ground is a necessity. At least planning for the next stage is also vital. Ibrox in any level of dilapidation a few years ago would have been unthinkable. There were all sorts of stories about casinos and expansions to 61,000 - 71,000 and hotels and whatnot. Now it is a ground which is probably second only to Murrayfield in Scotland but no longer compares favourably to England's top grounds. It was the best ground in Britain in the 80s and 90s but seems to be stuck in the 90s sadly.
  10. Do Rangers have the biggest indigenous fan base in Britain? I'd imagine we have about 3 or 4 million fans in the UK at least. Only other team around that level would be Arsenal I'd think.
  11. So Matt Crooks is going then? Damn, thought he was worth £60m+
  12. We would be World Premier League champions.
  13. The money should be used to buy Rob Kiernan for Celtic! We'll win the league this season if that muppet plays for them!
  14. I'd be quite happy to have a mostly green away kit. Green with a light blue diagonal section on the top. The green would be decorated by dead Jacobites and King Billy would be charging up the slopes of the Boyne! What? What other green would we use but the green grassy slopes?
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