BearAbroad

I would love it, just love it!! If we could escape this shithole and leave the Taigs and all the other pathetic minnows wallowing in their SPL cesspit whilst we lord it up on a journey to the top in England.

That is quite literally the most pitiful excuse for an article I have read in many a year... shockingly bad and completey skewed from reality from start to finish. Looks like Liewell has another acolyte on the payroll in the Scottish Mhedia

Yep, a perfect nail in the coffin to that filthy tarrier's dream of uncovering some dirt on Rangers .. obsessed doesnt begin to cover it

I would give the role to the guy that played Sloth in The Goonies

The worm has turned

If that was his quote at the outcome of this shambles, "nothing to do with the SPL" then he is even more of a mongo than I ever imagined. His only option must be to resign with immediate effect. He is a mendacious, slimey little toerag, who jumped readily into bed with all of the SPL Rangers haters as there pathetic little patsy to carry out their dirty work. He has now been left totally exposed and his job is surely now completely untenable..

N-word slur by CBE ace Anti-racism chief's rant Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4800119/Football-anti-racism-champion-Paul-Elliott-uses-n-word.html#ixzz2LDLu71qQ A FOOTBALL anti-racism champion has sparked a race row after calling another black man “n*****”. Ex-England and Chelsea star Paul Elliott, a leading light of the Kick It Out campaign, made the slur against another former player, Richard Rufus. Elliott, 48, launched the broadside in a text argument over a business venture that went wrong. He wrote to Rufus: “Ur a stupid man n*****” then added: “You dog. Ur history my friend.” The row ended with Elliott, recently made a CBE for services to equality and diversity in the game, warning: “This will follow you scumbag.” Last night neither he or ex-Charlton ace Rufus, 38, would comment on the argument or the insult. But it is understood Elliott insists the term was not offensive because of the nature of the conversation and as it was between two black men. Earlier this month he spoke of his “great sense of personal pride” at receiving his CBE at Buckingham Palace. The row is likely to embarrass the Football Association. Chairman David Bernstein recently praised Elliott for his work, saying it was “an example to us all”. After injury cut short Elliott’s career in 1992, he became a TV and radio pundit. He has been a trustee of Kick It Out since 1996 and is tipped to become next chairman. The Professional Footballers’ Association declined to comment on the row

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4800119/Football-anti-racism-champion-Paul-Elliott-uses-n-word.html Oh Dear.......

Did we ever actually receive the 800k? I seem to recall the SFA withholding it for some bullshit reason..

It is refreshing having someone in place who is willing to work hard to promote the club and develop its commerical potential. It certainly makes a difference in comparison to the incompetent Bain, who probably spent half his day surfing the internet and the other plotting for ways to increase his already swollen pay packet.

Here is the Keith Jackson article in the Rhebel... as for the football side, there is not much I disagree with in there SOMEWHERE amidst all the fog and fury of the last 12 months, Rangers Football Club has lost its sense of direction. A once proud giant of Scottish football stumbles around from pitch to pitch, forgetting where it came from and with no idea of how to get back there. Today’s Rangers is in a state of deep confusion. The brutal events of the last year have left it so ravaged and traumatised that it can now barely be recognised. It is exhausted. It has become a ghost of a club. The initial rush of pain and anguish which set in on administration day, last February 14, was quickly followed by a head-spinning mix of anger and resentment at the rest of the world. You can’t blame Rangers for that. It was an understandable, human reaction to a truly desperate situation. They had been battered in their sleep by Craig Whyte and then, as they lay sobbing and bloodied with an outstretched hand, others took it in turn to boot them into the gutter. In their darkest hour, they found no friendship or sympathy. Only more hostility and hatred. No wonder then that these events took such a heavy and lasting toll. But amidst all of these powerful, blinding emotions, Rangers have also lost sight of what they are supposed to be about. They are engulfed by self-pity and resentment. For their own good, the time has come to stop playing the victim card and to get on about their business because, both on and off the park, today’s Rangers is seriously lacking in class and in danger of self harming all over again. It’s bad enough on the park, where Ally McCoist and his players have been blundering around the lower leagues since August, from one sub-standard performance to the next. On Saturday they returned to far more familiar territory at Tannadice and yet, from the moment they arrived, they could not have looked more lost or out of place. In fact, the defeat brought the curtain down on a chaotic week of back-biting behind the scenes which could yet prove to be far more damaging to the club’s long term revival than McCoist’s aversion to staying in cup competitions for any respectable length of time. Word has it the chief executive is at loggerheads with his chairman, Malcolm Murray, and that their relationship has broken down. It’s likely that they will be forced to call a truce for the greater good and in order not to frighten the life out of those institutional investors who ploughed £17million into the coffers little more than a month ago. So the two of them will be told to limp on for a while, although probably only until the summer, but the fact that things have become so strained and so volatile in a brand new boardroom is another major cause for alarm. It could be that Murray, a long-standing Rangers supporter, is finding it increasingly difficult to recognise his own club in its current, angry guise. If so, who could blame him? Rangers are indeed a baffling business. How can it be that a team of highly-paid professionals, earning more than any other in the country with one obvious exception, perform so amateurishly? So regularly? Why has McCoist been so ready to abandon the standards which have been embedded into the marble foyer of Ibrox since the beginning of time? Never in his life has McCoist allowed himself to lower the bar to such a level but already it is hard to see him ever soaring high again. Rangers under McCoist are now truly a Third Division team. That’s the ultimate insult. Yes, they might be well clear at the top of the table but is this seriously to be considered as any kind of triumph when, in fact, they are grinding out results by the odd goal and often failing to do even that? Should today’s Rangers really be proud of that? No, what they are really doing here is blowing an opportunity to reinvent themselves and the way they play the game. McCoist has been given a blank canvas and right now he’s making an almighty mess of it. It’s time for him to get a grip before he too falls out with Green and an even bigger mess is created. Yes, McCoist never imagined having to manage at this lowly level but now that he is, he should be operating with a bit more style. If a club like Swansea can rise up like a beautiful phoenix from their own financial abyss, then shouldn’t Rangers aspire to do the same? McCoist should be busy rebranding this team and introducing a contemporary passing game. He has time to tweak his template as Rangers rise up through the leagues, recruiting better players on the way. And he should have this new, slicker Rangers ready to hit the ground running in the SPL when that day arrives. In the meantime, Rangers should be ripping through the lower levels, blitzing their part-time opponents aside like football’s answer to the Harlem Globetrotters. They should be making a show of it. Instead, they are making a spectacle of themselves. Maybe if that positive mentality had prevailed from the start, they might not have looked so overwhelmed at a place like Tannadice. But standards are not what they once were inside Ibrox. And McCoist alone is not to blame. On Saturday, Yorkshire’s one-man circus rolled into Tayside and the Rangers chief executive did about as much to enhance the reputation of his club as his players. As if his ill thought out endorsement of a boycott of the cup tie was not quite mean spirited enough, Green refused to shake hands or break bread with United’s directors or chairman Stephen Thompson. Instead, he waited until just before kick-off then bustled in through reception to take a seat in a private box. Green will no doubt have taken some satisfaction from giving Thompson the cold shoulder. After all, the United man has previously acted in the same spiteful manner, preferring to sit on his own in an empty team bus outside Ibrox rather than to go inside and press pre-match flesh in the boardroom. Pathetic. But even if Thompson had it coming, Green’s behaviour will nonetheless continue to alienate Rangers from the rest while perpetuating the feeling of victimisation amongst his own. He is presenting such a snarling face that it is hard for others to feel any kind of compassion for what his club has suffered. Green’s raging bull act is becoming a bore. It’s doing more damage than good at a time when grown up conversations about the state of Scottish football are required. After all, what would be the point in restoring Rangers to its former self if huge chunks of the competition are not fit for purpose by the time Green’s club returns? Time to change the mood music, Charles. It’s simply not healthy to stay so angry at so many for so long.

He is the B.B.C. man at training... Bibs, Balls and Cones

Old Charlie boy knocks it out the park again... Magnificant appointment for the club. Represented by people of true class. Compare Lauders or Super to that fucking pish stained gremlin they have for a manager in the East.

My old man bought me a shirt signed by the whole squad for Xmas in 2011. Originally planned to get it framed, but the fucking thing is worthless now as signed by all the traiters. Have a mind to through the thing in the trash, what a sickner !!

Hardly a surprise we make a loss the first year, we have bought out the lease for Albion car park, Edminston House, been robbed of our deserved prize money for last year, fined, made to pay back all domestic and international football debts, forced to accept peanuts for TV money (despite being the club on the most) and not to mention all associated costs in trying to get the club / business back on its feet. The whole process, no doubt has been complicated by the corrupt SPL / SFA cabal which seems determined to place as many (legal or illegal) obstacles in our path back to the top as possible. With our low cost base in terms of wages etc, would certainly expect to see us turn a profit in future years.

Sure I read it was 40k+ a week, which was one if the highest salaries in UK at the time. It is fucking ridiculous to pay a good but not quite world class player that kind of cash in Scotland. Particularly for a keeper in what is really a backwater league. It is symptomatic of the financial highway to hell Murray took us on with his profligate spending "chasing the (his) dream.

Seeing activity on twitter that set to be announced that will sign deal with Sports Direct to call Ibrox "Sports Direct Ibrox Stadium" for 7.5m over 3 year deal. Have seen nothing official, but will have to wait and see if this is bullshit or not. If true, I personally would not be against it for that sort of cash. As long as ibrox is firmly kept in the name that is what it will always be called.

Dancer... finally got it, just keep refreshing and will work eventually

They better get this shit sorted before kick off, was looking forward to this

Went to Inter v Lazio before and just showed up and got a tickets outside the San Siro. That was about 10 years ago so no idea if still the same.

Struggeling to get yourself moderately fit 4 months into the season merits bugger all appreciation. Once he has banged a few into the onion bag then there may be something tangible to discuss.

Dont forget we had too settle 3m of debts for European clubs (Jelavic, Goian, Ortiz fees etc) along for those with Scottish clubs. Also we bought Templeton for 700K and have remaining payments to make for Lee Wallace.

I was reading through and planning to post the exact same thing. Have grown to detest them, particurlay that prick Thompson who just oozes hatred of Rangers out of every pore..

If he is a bluenose then good on him... still wont buy his music though as its keich

I always had him down as one of the more bitter Tims... seems not to be the case