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    govansw1 reacted to jintybear in Blackpool Tickets   
    Got one! 🎉 On sale now troops 😊
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    govansw1 reacted to EMRFC in ***Tranmere Rovers vs The Champions match thread (pre season)***   
    No commentary???
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    govansw1 reacted to Buggleskelly in Lodge Alexandra 1282 and The Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.   
    I was fortunate to be there on Saturday & had a brilliant afternoon/ evening. You guys do an amazing job & are an integral part of the Rangers family. 
    WATP
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    govansw1 reacted to The Moonlighter in £5 Raffle for Two Rangers Books. All Proceeds to the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.   
    £85 in so far in donations folks, still plenty of time to get your name into Wednesday's draw.
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    govansw1 reacted to Raligt in Scotland at the euros?   
    The way he says "about, round and ground" is not Scottish. Sounds more canadian or something
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    govansw1 reacted to Siam69 in 55 Commemorative tops   
    Got my two on Wednesday, mate.
    Got the email with Hermes tracking, had a look at it and it said was out for delivery that day. Got them a couple of hours later. 

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    govansw1 got a reaction from rabc10000 in Please Read - Help a Bear Out   
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    govansw1 reacted to The Moonlighter in The Restoration of Rangers Graves Project and David Hill.   
    A couple of years ago we located the final resting place of Rangers player David Hill in an East Kilbride cemetery. Restoration work has now been carried out and a memorial plaque placed at the base.



    David Hill was born in 1858 in Perth. He joined Rangers in 1875 and played with the Club until 1884. He’s pictured here with his Rangers team mates in that iconic photograph from 1877.
    David went on to become a Scottish Internationalist and gave the club many years of service.
    David was employed as a Turkey Red salesman and lived at 17 Main Street East Kilbride.His house was above the two shops pictured that he owned.

     
    David Hill married a Jane Isobel Campbell Storer on the 2nd June 1904. He died on 3rd February 1920 at 4 Ann Street Glasgow aged 61.
    David saw Rangers grow from that fledging club born in a Glasgow park into Ibrox and huge attendances.
    As we continue to celebrate our 55th Title we remember David Hill.
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    govansw1 reacted to Hadron Collider in Morelos Copa America Thread   
    Ftfy mate. 
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    govansw1 got a reaction from Bears r us in Waiting on Humza Useless' Apology   
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    govansw1 reacted to Bears r us in Waiting on Humza Useless' Apology   
    Signed and shared on Twitter. 
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    govansw1 reacted to RFC55 in Club Statement - Trophy Day Celebrations   
    Exactly they were cute as fuck.with it the republican bastards.
     
    I'll be honest from.here on in any supporters of the SNP on here I'd ban them
    Not just a threat to the union but to Rangers FC
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    govansw1 reacted to falkirkNS in Waiting on Humza Useless' Apology   
    Just to think troops, there is so called Rangers supporters on this very forum that support the SNP 🙈
    SNPIRA... sane aims, same agenda, Unionist Rangers and the SNP don't go, now all you SNP lovers can ram that up yer hole.
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    govansw1 reacted to The Dude in Glasgow scenes shameful but 'othering' of Rangers fans equally troubling   
    Rangers fans have been hammered this morning after shameful scenes in George Square saw police officers injured, a number of fans arrested and the need for an urgent clean-up job after litter and bottles were left strewn across the city centre landmark in shameful scenes that marred the celebrations – but the attempts at ‘othering’ the overwhelming majority of Rangers fans who had nothing to do with the trouble seen is equally as disturbing.
    Read more: https://www.rangersnews.uk/columnist/glasgow-scenes-shameful-but-othering-of-rangers-fans-equally-troubling/
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    govansw1 reacted to The Moonlighter in 165 Years Ago Today. Founder William McBeath.   
    On the 7th May 1856 our Founder William McBeath was born in the village of Callander.

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    Willie’s dad Peter owned a general store on Callander’s Main Street and the family home was above the store which today is The Waverley Hotel.

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    William had an older sister Jane and a brother Peter. Another boy was born after William but he like so many other children of the time died in infancy.Tragically, William’s dad Peter McBeath passed in November 1864. Shortly afterwards,his wife took William and his sister Jane to Glasgow to start a new life.
    By the time of the 1871 census, the McBeaths were living at 17 Cleveland Street,living in the same close were five members of the McNeil family,including brothers Peter and William.It was here that the boys first made contact.The following year,at the beginning of 1872,the boys had an idea to form a football team.
    William McBeath played in our first ever match v Callander and according to fellow Ranger William Dunlop ‘’William was awarded man of the match but then spent a week in bed recovering due to his exertions!”.In 1874, incredibly at the age of just 17,William McBeath was elected as Rangers first ever President.This highlights how young the founders of our Club were.
    By 1878 William was a commercial traveller and after marrying a Jeannie Harris he moved to the Crosshill area of Glasgow .Within a year the family had moved to Bristol in what was almost certainly the most settled and happiest period of William’s life.
    In 1884 at the Club’s ‘Annual Hop’ his friends and fellow Founders honoured William for the role he played in its conception and presented him with a gold badge.This was at an event held in the St.Andrews Hall which is at the rear of today’s Mitchell Library in Glasgow.
    Sadly,the remaining period of William McBeath’s life is clouded in mist.
    What happened to cause a breakdown in the happy family life of the McBeaths is uncertain.William’s son Norman was sent to Glasgow to live with his grandmother.Norman McBeath died in Glasgow, aged eighty-three, in 1973.
    William last few years make for unpleasant reading. He moved from town to town, found himself in court on charges of fraud (of which he was acquitted) and married for a second time.He then moved to Lincoln and stayed at 57 Cranwell Street and 34 Vernon Street.

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    Tragically the deterioration in William McBeath’s life continued until his death in a workhouse at Lincoln in 1917. He was certified‘’imbecile”.The evidence of his state of health suggests he had actually suffered from Alzheimer’s.Medical terminology back then was brutal to say the least.
    William McBeath was buried in an unmarked, pauper’s grave in Lincoln Cemetery but there is a happy ending to his story.
    During his research for the Gallant Pioneers book Gary Ralston found William’s final resting place.The grave is now marked with a fitting stone which was paid for by the worldwide Rangers support and placed there by a group of fellow supporters.
    As we celebrate our 55th title we today remember Founder William McBeath.

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    govansw1 reacted to dave7867 in my virtual season ticket doesnt work anymore?   
    as titled
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    govansw1 reacted to eejay the dj in MyGers   
    Without thinking about the away tickets and points . That is probably the way to look at it 
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    govansw1 got a reaction from eejay the dj in MyGers   
    Anyone want a MyGers scarf and pin. Joined simply to put cash into club. 
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    govansw1 reacted to The Moonlighter in 164 Years Ago Today. Peter Campbell.   
    Founder Peter Campbell was born at Garelochhead on the 6th March 1857.
    Peter came from a more privileged background than his fellow Pioneers.
    His father John was a harbour master, his mother Mary was sister of Sir James Jenkins, honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria. The family home was “Craigellan”, a large sandstone villa in the lochside village of Garelochhead.
    A life on the ocean wave was always seemingly inevitable for the youngest of our founders given the sea-faring family to which he belonged but it was the ocean wave that tragically claimed his life at the age of 25.
    In the early 1870’s Peter moved to Glasgow and joined the Barclay Curle shipyard as an apprentice.
    When he and his friends Peter and Moses McNeil and William McBeath struck upon the idea of forming a football club it was no doubt a welcome release from the Clyde-side for Peter.
    He served a five-year apprenticeship with Barclay Curle and a further two years as a journeyman until 1879 while playing for the newly-formed Rangers.
    He was one of the better players in the fledgling side. Indeed he was described in annuals of the time as one of most outstanding players of the period.
    Like his fellow founders, Campbell played in that first match in May 1872 and went on to become a pivotal player for Rangers.
    Campbell, who was vice-captain of Rangers, played for Glasgow against Sheffield in 1876 when he and Moses became the first Rangers players to gain representative honours.He scored five goals in the 1876/77 Cup campaign when Rangers made it all the way to their first final but as previously described they agonisingly lost 3-2 in a second replay to Vale of Leven.
    His last match for Rangers was a Scottish Cup tie against the dominant Queen’s Park which was lost 5-1 in September 1879 and then he became one of the first Scottish players to move to England when he joined Blackburn Rovers and played for them briefly before hanging up his boots.
    The smell of the salt was too strong in his nostrils. He is said to have had seven spells at sea with the London-based merchant ship Margaret Banks in the next three years and then, fatefully, he was on board the St Columba which was bound for Bombay with coal when it left Penarth in South Wales in January 1883.In horrific weather the boat never got past the Bay of Biscay off western France and Peter was pronounced drowned on March 3.The youngest of our founders died aged just 25.On Saturday 22nd July 2017, after a period of negotiation with Penarth Council, we unveiled a memorial plaque at Penarth Pier to commemorate the life of Peter Campbell and his contribution in the formation of Rangers Football Club.The memorial was funded by our Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.
    We’re fortunate to have something more tangible to remember Peter Campbell by.He was a member of the first Rangers’ side to win a trophy, the Glasgow Merchants’ Charity Cup in 1879,and there’s an incredible story behind the medal that Peter won that day.
    Fellow Rangers supporter William Mason contacted us to tell of how one of his friends had found this medal belonging to Peter Campbell in a park in East Kilbride in 1968. A few years ago his friend loaned the medal to Rangers and Peter Campbell’s medal is on display in the Blue Room at Ibrox.
    This is a permanent reminder of the contribution Peter Campbell made in forming our great Club.
    Today as we charge towards our 55th League title we remember Founder Peter Campbell.
     
     









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    govansw1 reacted to BallochBear in Clyde One Super Score Board   
    Get Tommy from posso on right now or even better Laurie fae Dennington.
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    govansw1 reacted to Bears r us in Officialdom Conspiracy 2020/21?   
    It certainly is, I had to Google Bella Emberg. 
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    govansw1 reacted to tannerall in Rangers Picture Thread   
    Match report.
     
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