rab wilson

Christ on a bike! Billy Urquart! remember him running out against cologne at Ibrox in the european cup in 79.He was absolute pish!

at first when i heard this when he was at hearts i thought it was bollox,but so many people are saying it there could be some amount of truth in it.he was touted as our manager along with billy davies at one point. My christ what a choice.

Not just a recent thing, but on saturday it just re-established my feelings.Scotlands national team can go and fuck itself.Bears always have got the shit end of the stick, no matter how successful we have been.can't cheer for a Celtic player playing for scotland, or a sheep or an HIV. RANGERS ONLY FOR ME! Tartan Army are all wankers!

So sorry to hear that Jama. my uncle Tommy from Kirkintilloch passed away in his sleep 2 friday's ago. I only found out from my estranged sister last wedneday. All my first games watching the bears were with him , my cousin Tommy and my dad. We were the biggest blue nose buggers I knew. All my happiest memories of being a bear were with them.Picking him up from the Teachers distillery on a friday night reeking of whisky will be something I WILL TREASURE FOREVER. So any bears who know or remember BIG tommy WILSON FAE kirkie, please say hello. I don't even know where the funeral is as nobody has passed the info to me. I feel your pain brother.hope you and you and your family are coping alright. Rab

Many times mate, but not talking to my dad for the last 9 years and being in manchester with my boys. If we had been talkin, we would have all been there together , what a great picture that would have made. 3 generations of bears. i cried my eyes out about rangers like never before that day. I was inconsoleable, and nothing my lads could say or do could stop it. We watched all the shit rangers teams always hoping but never quite believing we would get to a european final in his or my lifetime. I know you will understand this mate. keep believing amigo!

sitting in the new copland with my dad, my uncle tommy and my cousin Tommy must have been 80-81 watching us draw with morton 2-2. we went to every game for years together,all billy boys together. walking off the bus and seeing ibrox in front of you will never ever be beat. Same day watching my dad get the bus driver by the throat at the red road flats cos he got the polis to chuck some of the derry off the the bus for singing the sash. a rare quality seen in these don't give a fuck days. helicopter sunday was a lifetime ambtion to see celtic choke big time and us see it out, more so than 2 years previous. But Feyenoord away with my pals was fuckin mental, kicking off everywhere, defending your colours and your life,getting out of the de kuip alive when at times it didn't look possible, and walking into my work the next day bashed to fuck , in a meeting with the meat buyer from Tesco with the biggest smile ever will live wth me forever. I'm not everybody's cup of tea as a bear, but a very few on here will understand. i just love my club :unionflag: :unionflag:

I'm sure we beat Utd 3-2 at Ibrox in the Scottish cup in 85 before a bumper 35,000 crowd no mate in 85 we lost 1-0 to dundee and 86 hearts beat us 3-2 . Christ minstral, that wasn't the day when ally couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo was it? I was only 13 but i remember i've never seen a player so affected by the venom of his own crowd, he was so close to tears it was unbelievable.remembe the forfar game as well, was that 1980 at hampden in the semi? was only 9 so memory may be playing tricks. hi mr true blue its great to see you back again please stay and start to post again. rab you are close we played forfar 1981-82 in the semis and drew the first game 0-0 and won the replay 3-1 johnstone, bett, and davie cooper scored. Hello amigo, iwas standing with ma dad and uncle tommy at the forfar game and John Greig got so much stick from our boys, it made my old man cry.never forget it. some of those players should have been so ashamed of themselves the way they shit on greigy.should have been our greatest ever manager.

I'm sure we beat Utd 3-2 at Ibrox in the Scottish cup in 85 before a bumper 35,000 crowd no mate in 85 we lost 1-0 to dundee and 86 hearts beat us 3-2 . Christ minstral, that wasn't the day when ally couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo was it? I was only 13 but i remember i've never seen a player so affected by the venom of his own crowd, he was so close to tears it was unbelievable.remembe the forfar game as well, was that 1980 at hampden in the semi? was only 9 so memory may be playing tricks.

I don't post anymore cos of some shit that has gone on in the past on here, but i'm on everyday. When I read that , I knew it was either Minstral or Manti. Spoken from the heart of a true blue teddy bear. Miss our discussions loads Minstral amigo. Keep Believing! Rab

DP Thank fuck there are still bears like you. We are a dying breed pal.Leave the rangers for anybody? If you are a true blue on the verge of title glory, fuckin never! If he does go , which let's face it is almost certain, i won't be so gushing with the praise for AH, cos a wee part of my soul will have been ripped out, and my heart broken. But if by some miracle friday morning he is still our boy, I will stick my neck on the line and say AH will never leave Rangers and will become one of the greatest to ever pull on a jersey for us

my thoughts exactly BD, one of my all time favourites i have to say.remember hearing stories on dvds about how he used to have to breathe into a brown bag before we took on celtic..our own dave mackay, who would rather have died on the pitch wearing our jersey than let celtic win, or anybody else for that matter. A proddy and die hard ger who still handles himself in true gentlemanly grace and totally biased when asked about the bears.never ducks a bear in the street either. just like wee durrant, a true bear.not many appreciate that.i wish they would. By the way boab, we don't agree on much, but thanks for a rangers post and a good one at that.This should not be open for debate.legend. end of.

Wanker of the highest order. i support all british countries. its cunts like you who stop me supporting the land of my birth.makes mefuckin sick.you and you're see you jimmy clansmen anti rangers bastards.get tae fuck!

Aw naw ...The maestro's been on.How can you possibly argue about which is better, when you have people like him, manticore d'artagnan et al. What have they fuckin seen over the years? True Bears. I read their posts with interest because it's cos of bears like this, that my love for rangers has never been anything other than a way of life, that doesn't seem to do it justice really.I always remember blokes like these making surei never got hit by anything as a wee boy at the games,all ma dad'spals, and fuck me did things fly in they days ! bit off topic but it may explain itself i suppose. 2 major points in this huge chunk of my life 1) when i identified with the rangers support, as one. it was really early 80's and andy ritchie of morton had just played rangers off the park and we were lucky to escape with a 2-2 at ibrox.I was 8-9years old,but it was walking round to to our bus that a gang of young lads started belting out The Sash, i'd loved the song anyway, it was on every sunday without fail in our house.butnthey were not that much older than me, but their passion in the singing, there were only 5 or 6 of them, but it sounded louder than i'd ever heard before, strange i know. But i could feel my burning passion for rangers, i was like them, i wanted to be with them, but i wasn't brave enough..or hard enough.They just pushed my glass over the edge of the dining table, there was no ever shitting on rangers after that. I was obsessed. Fuckin magic! 2)When i realised my own identity as a Bear.-never thought it was gonnae be the same without ma dad, but i remember my first home game without ma dad, I was quite handy with ma fists but nothing prepared me for getting punched and kicked in the head by st mirren casuals at the tea bar in the enclosure in'89. Just before i hit the deck loadsa boys jumped in. anyway the stmirren boys got stuck at the stairs in the west enclosure, me and this english boy were scared shitless but ran at them anyway,amazingkicked 7 shades out of them. Us and a gang of Chelsea followed Rangers everywhere for years from london, and we never hid from anybody. I'll never be ashamed of it In fact i'm quite proud of it At least i know i have never sold my soul to the devil Or felt the need to apologize for my beliefs whether in Rangers, Religion and life. The Rangers shaped my life Without them i would be nothing

Go on Amigo!!!!!!!! scummy bastards.Oh ,we are celtic, everybody must love us or else.Anybody who thinks we have to match the standards of Celtic FC should be on another board.They only exist to remind us how dignified ,superior and great we are.

Fuckin superb post and topic .Awright mistral amigo? Rangers are the only thing i've ever been totally honestly in love with. Been like that since i remember(hamilton races when i was 2, my uncle harry bought me a rangers strip) i know it sounds far fetched but it's a day i'll never forget.I just remember that the blue was like electric against the sunshine'and i got the black and red socks and white shorts. I would rather die than shit on Rangers I would rather die than to be anything but a Billy Boy Bear. I saw some shit at ibrox before i was 10, but they were still fuckin magic to me and ma da. Oh aye, and we had Davie Cooper and Bobby Russell. I'd just love to be able to travel back in time to the day we drew 2-2 with St Mirren at Ibrox in 80-81. Davie Cooper screwed Tony Fitzpatrick into the ground right in front of me.I swear they had to dig his left foot out of the ground :harhar: Then as a 9 year old boy i just screamed " go on davie". Now i know what we have lost, i would have clapped non stop to the end of the game. No Surrender

Hawd on, Minstral... you watched Celtic? :harhar: :pipehorse: yes because you have no idea the pleasure i get when they get humped, i just hate everything they stand for. Well said the genius maestro!i fuckin love watching them get pumped. i was way to my bed pissed off just about to switch off when cardozzo scored . i did a knee slide across the front room.Fuckin magic! I fuckin hate celtic and i'll watch them if i think there is no chance they can beat the other mob. So far i,ve watched all of their CL away games ever! :harhar: Oh aye,just one more wee thing........ Fuck you celtic ole ole ole Smelly Mhanky Bassas. Watched maself cause a love to see them suffer, they are horrible people and hate us more than they like their own team. How the fcuk have we been cursed havin them in our country. We must have upset the Gods somewhere down the line. :willy: :willy: i guess you realise i agree with your views sherlock.haha

are back! never mind what happened on the park.The Boys are back.I would like to apologise to boab for my wee outburst last night, it was only cos celtic looked like they were holding on for a point, so apologies amigo.. we differ on a lot of points and that is why we are here to debate, sometimes i forget i'm talking to a fellow bear.You see you have no idea what it's like living down here .i don't really ever get to have a conversation about rangers with a rangers supporter. But some of the english and polish boys try really hard and watch or read about us on the strength of my passion for our great club. Therefore i don't enjoy seeing bears belittled for their beliefs, especially the Protestant or loyalist beliefs. Everybody who is a real bear knows how to behave inside the ground. regardless of how much they want to sing it.I don't see any thing wrong with the add ons, but i won't sing them whilst rangers are playing and i'm in the ground. afterwards and before or everyday at work, despite being a manager, i cannot surpress the urge to belt out The Billy Boys in the meat chiller(superb accoustics.)I will never apologise for that, in fact i'm very proud of it, my beliefs have made me a stronger , better person and no matter how shit things got, and they did go shit at one time , I always remembered 2 things in the same instance . the fact that i'm a Billy Boy Rangers Supporter. that is what i want on my stone, i want everybody to know how proud of the fact that i am. It should be shouted from the rooftops, not to be surpressed. I would like to think that there maybe a few people on this site who feel the same and hold it in out of respect for the club they love,It really is fuckin hard not to shout what you really feel at celtic or former players of their brethren when we play them. The easiest insult that should make them ashamed to be what they are and their connection to celtic. Their is a line in the sand though that gets crossed in europe to my disgust on too often an occasion.Considering calling somebody a fenian bastard as bad as monkey noises and bananas thrown at black players.we cannot change the colour of our skin, black ,white whatever. But everybody who is part of their support,or has been part of their club in any other way, has chosen to do so at his own free will.They are fair game to everyone They have chosen to embrace the whole ethos of celtic , all of it, otherwise they could never do so fully with all their heart.That i believe is the fundamental difference between the support of both clubs. I once knew a few of protestant persuasion who supported Celtic,The worst traitors of them all.they would get off the bus in blackburn west lothian and sing about the IRA the full repertoire of songs of hate for Rangers ,British citizens and Britain as a whole I questioned them how they could sing that pish then expect to be pals with me.I've always found that celtic fans are about as much ashamed as proud of what they stand for.My question is this. How can they possibly claim to be proud of any of it? They are lowlife In a club run by lowlife . They go all out forany slice of praise they can feed on . They have to be felt sorry for and loved by everyone.And dare anybody criticise them for it . For celtic supporters it's all about their constant striving to be seen as the greatest supporters in the world. They actually feel their club owe them for this loyalty With Rangers i hae always felt that it's different Their is not a lot of blind loyalty at Ibrox.When i was a boy in the late 70's and early 80's some of the abuse hurled at the players in massie crowds of 12000 at Ibrox, Rangers players by the way was really easy to hear. Rangers supporters will follow Rangers everywhere despite what some at the club may feel about them. We need no worldwide adulation.We don't need anybody to love us.We command respect as a support who don't tolerate fools gladly , especially those who wear our colours on the park. Back to my point originally, although i'm so stoned i can't remember what that was ha ha. Sorry Boys. Our support is well and truly back.I felt it coming when i went to WS first game back. We know walter as a true ranger, but i believe there is much more belief in him this time round.And not just from the support.But David Murray needed Walter so badly because as a rangers man and standard bearer to appease us.We knew walter would sort the mess and be straight with us. Well it looks like we have really finally all got behind him and his staff.Seeing ally down there still makes mehave to look twice.we are surrounded by Legends DM needed WS to push through the importance of add ons, or maybe some wouldn't have listened We are back to being Rangers.A club and support united. I've been saying it for weeks.We have a club to be proud of on and off the park.Everyboy on that pitch gives his all. i honestly believe that in every game.I have not felt that in years.I think we all feel that.sometimes it's not good enough,but we feel they gave their all It makes a difference That card display brought more than 1 tear to my eye.For those players to walk out to that must have been gut wrenching The last few sentences were all i planned to say at the start, but heh , it gets lonely down here in essex. You lot are all i'e got.at times, if i can't bore the shit out of you lot? what else is there.The rest is just deseration to talk to bears and try to say how i feel in 1 post that would normally only be established in several face to face conversations in the vain hope that somebody has a view good or bad Fuck Sake sorry boys....i've got to be up in 2 hours.Shit.

Hawd on, Minstral... you watched Celtic? :harhar: :pipehorse: yes because you have no idea the pleasure i get when they get humped, i just hate everything they stand for. Well said the genius maestro!i fuckin love watching them get pumped. i was way to my bed pissed off just about to switch off when cardozzo scored . i did a knee slide across the front room.Fuckin magic! I fuckin hate celtic and i'll watch them if i think there is no chance they can beat the other mob. So far i,ve watched all of their CL away games ever! :harhar: Oh aye,just one more wee thing........ Fuck you celtic ole ole ole Smelly Mhanky Bassas.

Who the fuck are you boab? all you have done all night is slag people, not just me. Have you got the arsehole cos nobody replies to your shitey posts or whit? You really get on my tits at times. I was tryin to be nice, calm down. Hearftfelt has nothing to do with it. Patronising comment implying that i'm not all that intelligent. certainly don't need a clever genius like you to be nice to be nice to me my old buddy. been patronised by better than you,so keep trying old son, you are not quite on the 100% arsehole level yet, not even close, but with a bit more effort you never know.

Who the fuck are you boab? all you have done all night is slag people, not just me. Have you got the arsehole cos nobody replies to your shitey posts or whit? You really get on my tits at times.

This anti football bollocks is getting on my tits S. we tried to play football when we had it.not just hump it away like desperate celtic did against them. we defended like demons against a team whose movement and passing is second only to arsenal.we were magic, end of story. We defend like forest and liverpool in their heyday, and i doubt even they couldhave kept barca out last night.Ther was no backpass rule in those days either which makes our performance more remarkable. In truth AM only made 1 real save all night and that was from a free kick.remember what we were up against last night, the front 3 alone. 1 save against that mob? show me any team in europe that can do that to barca again this season. Mon the fuckin gers!

have we come then eh boys? Hutton didn't give henry a kick, or ronnie, or abidal.Papac against Puyol was superb.Messi was that pissed off hefuckedoff into the middle at times. Everybody did their job.They could not get through us DW and CC were so outstanding at the back. And when they got past them, AMgot there or another brave soul threw themselves in the way of a shot or killer pass in the box.Walter ,Ally and KM did their homework and the players acted it out superbly. To a man every player gave their all, asthey always should. My hero Baz was singled out by Ronnie Irani on Talksport as THE WARRIOR.OK, maybe he wasn't at his midfield controlling best, but fuck me what a shift he put in after single handedly destroying the mhanky midfield on saturday. We are a really good side bears. I would not have swapped any of ours for theirs last night, that is how far we have come under THE MANAGEMENT. Every player knows what it means to pull on that jersey. Today, i sat and stared at my PC at work all day, dreaming of DC's volley bursting the net or Baz wearing long studs, but it wasn't to be. I can honestly say that today , i'm at my most proud to be a bear, not because it was Barca because we will supersede this result in the future, but because every player was giving their all for the jersey.No Surrender was never more evident. They shall not pass was the scratch in the record which played for 93 minutes. One player for me,not for everybody, sums up what it means to raise your level of performance .Big Lee MacCulloch, the butt of many detractors on here when we were chasing him,is the most important signing WS made.A big hard bastard billy boy who bollocks all for baz, then bollocks Baz as well when he starts moaning.He waited his whole life to be here and treats every game as his last.And Big Davie. What made me proudest of all was that we showed we can compete with the best, nearly beat the best, and that our boys in the stands(lucky Bastards ha ha) last night, will always remain the best. We are getting rave reviews down here and rightly fuckin so! WE ARE THE PEOPLE

Heh man, keep safe pal eh. you'll here the roar fae there when big maculloch scores the winner in the last minute. i'm watching at home with my 25 ft essex loyal union jack flag i made for my oldest boys 12th birthday for the fulham friendly covering the windows, stellas in the fridge, no cunt allowed in. jealous as fuck i'm not there. going to be one of the greatest atmospheres at ibrox ever. Come on the queens 11! fuckin intae them rangers!

Because we are standard bearers. Because i was chosen Because of our tradition Because i always feel at home at ibrox, surrounded by 50000 pals watching the only true love of my life Because i'm a proud british protestant Because of my dad, uncle tommy. uncle karl, cousin tommy, uncle harry and uncle derek johnstone(harry's pal) at bellahouston sports centre one sunday. Because of our colours Becausei would never shit on Rangers or be anything less than proud to say i'm a billy no matter what, even facing certain death Because we are the people Because i love my dad (no spoke to him for 7 years) People slag older bears cos of the songs they sang ,but ma dad was a real fuckin bear! true blue. Never frightened to stand up and be counted for what he believed no matter if surrounded by thousands against him(inter away 84, my first fight at footie as a 13 yo, with ma dad, harry and Karl) Because it,s my proudest answer and most honest answer when asked what team i support Because Davie Cooper took the piss out of tony fitzpatrick one saturday at Ibrox v st mirren in front of only 15700 in 1980 and gave us all something to talk about on The Stoneyburn Bus on the way home. Because of the bears in Lyon clip(wasn't there, regrets) singing the drifters and fuck you celtic ole ole ole. True happiness by the best people in the world

Couldn't have put it better myself muff.True Class.Absolute fuckin class pal. and i thought the way he dealt with Charlie Adam at the Pen was that of a Rangers captain of legendary status indeed