aird 3,721 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 I heard he just watched spaceballs and wanted to do the wave but never got time to finish it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeparateEntityMyArse 53,247 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 "This is a serial victim. He’s been racially abused, coins have hit off him and Aberdeen supporters even wrote a banner in Spanish about his mother. Oh, the Scottish banter." 👏👏👏👏👏 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
don logan 8,023 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Courtyard Bear said: That is one of the best articles about Buff and what he has to put up with I’ve read. In fact it’s the only article that’s been written from his point of view. Only downside as G4 above said it wasn’t a Get It Up You, would’ve been nice if the writer had mentioned this. And as Kris Boyd rightly pointed on Sunday the microscopic dissection of everything he does on a football pitch, by TV companies, is completely over the top. Every game they are nearly self imploding in the rush to discuss some alleged minor misdemeanour on his part, that's happened about 30 other times during that match involving most other players. It's hysterical, disproportionate nonsense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vision 16,680 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 3 hours ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said: Neil Cameron: Scottish fans deserve the ultimate snub from Alfredo Morelos By Neil Cameon NEIL CAMERON Scottish fans deserve the ultimate snub from Alfredo Morelos. THERE is a wonderful sequence in the book, and subsequent film, Fight Club in which those who are members of the never-to-be-named association attempt to get into fights with ordinary and unbruised members of the public. Turns out, that’s not so easy to do. The vast majority of folk have no interest in physical violence, even when hugely provoked. As the author Chuck Palahniuk explained many years after his book was published, while humans are capable of almost anything, it is our base nature to keep out of trouble. This is why most of us have never been in a proper fight. How many times have you been physically threatened? How often is abuse screamed in your face? I have walked the streets of Glasgow after closing time, which some claim is as dangerous as popping out for a pint of milk in war-time Dresden, and perhaps once, at the most twice, did I come across trouble. We know how to behave, you see. Well, most of the time. And then we get into a football ground and, well, anything that happened at Fir Park stays at Fir Park. READ MORE: Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos breaks UEFA goalscoring record Except there were no secrets about what happened on Sunday. The television cameras clearly caught the hand signal, the sneering, and the lack of control. This, of course, was the Motherwell supporters, at least the section that houses their (really) young team. They targeted Alfredo Morelos with personal abuse. This is fair(ish) enough. It’s football after all. Fans get to shout and swear. That’s the culture. Always has been. Except, these days, the shouty supporters can’t seem to take it when anything is said back to them. Should Morelos have told the Motherwell support to “get it right up them” complete with rude gesture? No, but I didn’t have a problem with it and I’ll bet you said young team, who were to throw all manner of objects at the Rangers player, weren’t traumatised in the slightest. And yet Morelos is the one punished for reacting to constant abuse. This is a serial victim. He’s been racially abused, coins have hit off him and Aberdeen supporters even wrote a banner in Spanish about his mother. Oh, the Scottish banter. If I were going about my business and a group of strangers shouted obscenities at me regarding my family and ethnicity, followed up by a bottle of Buckfast aimed at my head, I would react. If Palahniuk had wanted all of his characters to get into a fight, he should have sent them to a football match. Morelos was shown a second red card because he did break the rules. He was sent off, and will now miss a big game against Hibernian, for being a human being. The Colombian didn’t hit an opponent, dive, spit or go in late on a defender. After scoring, he gave some back to those who had spent a lot of their Sunday afternoon acting like louts. READ MORE: Alfredo Morelos targeted by objects thrown by Motherwell fans as he celebrated Rangers goal Steven Gerrard said he didn’t disagree with the second caution. I simply don’t believe that. The Rangers manager was playing the PR game. He would be 100 per cent on the side of his player, as he should be. I don’t see why it’s “acceptable” to shout all sorts of stuff at a football player but, when they react, out come the “he could have caused a riot” mob. If you look up the history of rioting, there aren’t any examples of people taking to the street because of a 50/50 penalty decision. Same with Scott Brown after the celtic Park Old Firm game towards the end of last season. Arms stretched in front of the Rangers fans with a broad smile on his face. I feel sorry for Morelos. He was brilliant at Motherwell. He’s been brilliant all season. If the votes were taken now I’d have him as my player of the year. He’s cleaned up his act, scored goals for fun – apart from in one fixture – and his all-round play has been raised several levels. Plus, he’s got a personality that is hard to dislike. Morelos isn’t perfect, but nobody is. I’m guessing that he gets it when he walks about Glasgow and he chooses not to respond, which is what happens in a book with the word “fight” in it. Could you put up with that on a daily basis? If I were in charge of Scottish football, which sadly is not the case, I would rescind the red card and force those Motherwell supporters so brave with their actions at the weekend to face up to Morelos. My guess is they wouldn’t fancy it and hide away like the weans they are. Morelos has 27 goals to his name this season. That’s impressive enough but, given he takes more flack on and off the pitch than anyone else in the Scottish game, his feats become all the more impressive. I would be astonished if Rangers aren’t forced to fend off bids for their main man in January. Morelos, still only 23, would be cheap in relative terms. I’m not saying Liverpool would be after him but surely the scouts in England now realise that to dismiss talent north of the border is plain stupid. It would be good if Morelos stayed at least until the end of the season. We need as many good players in the Premiership as we can get. But I wouldn’t blame the lad if he once again turned to the Scottish public to “get it right up us” and go somewhere else Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getstiffed 8,863 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 2 hours ago, aird said: I heard he just watched spaceballs and wanted to do the wave but never got time to finish it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueteeth 2,185 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 19 minutes ago, Getstiffed said: i've also felt my entire life i've been held back by my big helmet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,358 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 2 hours ago, graeme_4 said: ^thats an excellent article btw, apart from the ‘get it right up ye’ - don’t think that’s what Morelos actually does / means. He did mean it to the fans that were abusing him, and so he should have, the article is spot on about how players should give it back when they take it stinking Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Persson 541 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 The only people that gesture offended are the so called general public ( who don't actually watch fitba) and the Morelos obsessed SFA. The TV companies job is to promote anything that happens on or off field to big up their show. Magnification of any kind raises profile and advertising. It may even reach out to another audience if it can be deemed controversial. A "bogey man" in Politics and Sport is the heart of selling copy. This is showbiz sport run by showbiz people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getstiffed 8,863 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 17 minutes ago, Blueteeth said: i've also felt my entire life i've been held back by my big helmet https://media.giphy.com/media/11YRoQBCJfnfxK/giphy.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin 13,594 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 4 hours ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said: Neil Cameron: Scottish fans deserve the ultimate snub from Alfredo Morelos By Neil Cameon NEIL CAMERON Scottish fans deserve the ultimate snub from Alfredo Morelos. THERE is a wonderful sequence in the book, and subsequent film, Fight Club in which those who are members of the never-to-be-named association attempt to get into fights with ordinary and unbruised members of the public. Turns out, that’s not so easy to do. The vast majority of folk have no interest in physical violence, even when hugely provoked. As the author Chuck Palahniuk explained many years after his book was published, while humans are capable of almost anything, it is our base nature to keep out of trouble. This is why most of us have never been in a proper fight. How many times have you been physically threatened? How often is abuse screamed in your face? I have walked the streets of Glasgow after closing time, which some claim is as dangerous as popping out for a pint of milk in war-time Dresden, and perhaps once, at the most twice, did I come across trouble. We know how to behave, you see. Well, most of the time. And then we get into a football ground and, well, anything that happened at Fir Park stays at Fir Park. READ MORE: Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos breaks UEFA goalscoring record Except there were no secrets about what happened on Sunday. The television cameras clearly caught the hand signal, the sneering, and the lack of control. This, of course, was the Motherwell supporters, at least the section that houses their (really) young team. They targeted Alfredo Morelos with personal abuse. This is fair(ish) enough. It’s football after all. Fans get to shout and swear. That’s the culture. Always has been. Except, these days, the shouty supporters can’t seem to take it when anything is said back to them. Should Morelos have told the Motherwell support to “get it right up them” complete with rude gesture? No, but I didn’t have a problem with it and I’ll bet you said young team, who were to throw all manner of objects at the Rangers player, weren’t traumatised in the slightest. And yet Morelos is the one punished for reacting to constant abuse. This is a serial victim. He’s been racially abused, coins have hit off him and Aberdeen supporters even wrote a banner in Spanish about his mother. Oh, the Scottish banter. If I were going about my business and a group of strangers shouted obscenities at me regarding my family and ethnicity, followed up by a bottle of Buckfast aimed at my head, I would react. If Palahniuk had wanted all of his characters to get into a fight, he should have sent them to a football match. Morelos was shown a second red card because he did break the rules. He was sent off, and will now miss a big game against Hibernian, for being a human being. The Colombian didn’t hit an opponent, dive, spit or go in late on a defender. After scoring, he gave some back to those who had spent a lot of their Sunday afternoon acting like louts. READ MORE: Alfredo Morelos targeted by objects thrown by Motherwell fans as he celebrated Rangers goal Steven Gerrard said he didn’t disagree with the second caution. I simply don’t believe that. The Rangers manager was playing the PR game. He would be 100 per cent on the side of his player, as he should be. I don’t see why it’s “acceptable” to shout all sorts of stuff at a football player but, when they react, out come the “he could have caused a riot” mob. If you look up the history of rioting, there aren’t any examples of people taking to the street because of a 50/50 penalty decision. Same with Scott Brown after the celtic Park Old Firm game towards the end of last season. Arms stretched in front of the Rangers fans with a broad smile on his face. I feel sorry for Morelos. He was brilliant at Motherwell. He’s been brilliant all season. If the votes were taken now I’d have him as my player of the year. He’s cleaned up his act, scored goals for fun – apart from in one fixture – and his all-round play has been raised several levels. Plus, he’s got a personality that is hard to dislike. Morelos isn’t perfect, but nobody is. I’m guessing that he gets it when he walks about Glasgow and he chooses not to respond, which is what happens in a book with the word “fight” in it. Could you put up with that on a daily basis? If I were in charge of Scottish football, which sadly is not the case, I would rescind the red card and force those Motherwell supporters so brave with their actions at the weekend to face up to Morelos. My guess is they wouldn’t fancy it and hide away like the weans they are. Morelos has 27 goals to his name this season. That’s impressive enough but, given he takes more flack on and off the pitch than anyone else in the Scottish game, his feats become all the more impressive. I would be astonished if Rangers aren’t forced to fend off bids for their main man in January. Morelos, still only 23, would be cheap in relative terms. I’m not saying Liverpool would be after him but surely the scouts in England now realise that to dismiss talent north of the border is plain stupid. It would be good if Morelos stayed at least until the end of the season. We need as many good players in the Premiership as we can get. But I wouldn’t blame the lad if he once again turned to the Scottish public to “get it right up us” and go somewhere else The same Neil Cameron who described the sexual assault of a child at celtic boys club as "light abuse" and even invented a victim in his head to back this up? Paedo apologist Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA1972 9,057 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 1 hour ago, don logan said: And as Kris Boyd rightly pointed on Sunday the microscopic dissection of everything he does on a football pitch, by TV companies, is completely over the top. Every game they are nearly self imploding in the rush to discuss some alleged minor misdemeanour on his part, that's happened about 30 other times during that match involving most other players. It's hysterical, disproportionate nonsense. The hyperbole about some minor incidents was beyond belief in the cup final Sutton calling him a thug because Julien ran across him and went down like he’d been shot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tannerall 25,935 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Racial abuse only acceptable in Scotland against Gers players it seems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doonald 229 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Surely writing a pro Rangers article like this will lead to Neil Cameron being fired from that tatty newspaper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddiqi_drinker 14,635 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Jimbeamjunior said: He did mean it to the fans that were abusing him, and so he should have, the article is spot on about how players should give it back when they take it stinking Last game before he leaves us (hope that's a while away) be happy f he he goes full-on Cantona and melts some cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
They Gnu 11,553 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 12 minutes ago, doonald said: Surely writing a pro Rangers article like this will lead to Neil Cameron being fired from that tatty newspaper. Every decade they throw us a bone to pretend they’re impartial. Normal service will be resumed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSuedeSambas 53,548 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 I swear I’ve never wanted a player of ours to score against that mob from across the city as much as I want Morelos to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdzKyle 7,763 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 11 minutes ago, DBBTB said: I swear I’ve never wanted a player of ours to score against that mob from across the city as much as I want Morelos to. Guaranteed red card for celebrating when he does. Refs just can’t help themselves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueteeth 2,185 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 36 minutes ago, DBBTB said: I swear I’ve never wanted a player of ours to score against that mob from across the city as much as I want Morelos to. Surely it has to happen at some point? Can't go 12 games or more. If it does then I'm sad to say using Morelos in these games is going a lot of the way to us not being able to win them. The whole team has to perform, and the main purpose of a striker is to score at the end of the day. Being a constant nuisance doesn't win you games if you can't score. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Shaw 30,127 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 On 17/12/2019 at 13:52, Rum Ham said: Mind cunts wanted him gone as we had just signed Jason Cummings That should be a retrospective banning offence @gogzy weed them out 😆 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.E.C. 18,633 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 1 hour ago, DBBTB said: I swear I’ve never wanted a player of ours to score against that mob from across the city as much as I want Morelos to. Going to put a wee bet on a hat trick at the piggery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertN 386 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Needs to put it low in the corner against them Forster's weak spot is probably agility Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Escobar 13,676 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 3 hours ago, G.E.C. said: Going to put a wee bet on a hat trick at the piggery. Good to see we aren’t getting carried away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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