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Rangers can’t be held responsible for the sheer amount of children someone decides to have

It looks like he’s leaving and I think I speak for everyone when I say it’s been an absolute pleasure having a model professional like Jermain Defoe as our number 9.
He’s ‘got it’ since he walked through the door and he did what he set out to do by bringing the league trophy home to its rightful place. He’s been an objectively brilliant signing for us and scored many important goals for the club - including a landmark goal against the scum.
He’s one of my favourite Rangers players of the modern era who we got to enjoy in the twilight of his outstanding career.
Wish him all the very best & he’ll always be welcome back to Ibrox. He leaves with his head held high as a good Rangers man.
 

We need to tell him to settle the fuck down with those types of performances while we're in a transfer window ffs 

I was involved with some "behind the scenes" stuff with players over the last few years and there are no words to describe how much of a class act Mr Defoe is.
When there is nobody there to see, he is exactly the same.
An example was meeting a group of kids and two in wheelchairs were at the side. He asked me to go and find out there names (which I did on the quiet from their carers). He marches up to them " Hi - you must be Tommy and you must be Billy?" (I Canny remember their names!)
"My name's Jermain, welcome to Ibrox stadium". He then spent ages with them, loads of pics etc, gave me his car keys, and asked me to get some of his club publicity pics from the glove box, and his sharpie pen.
He signed dedicated pics for the two boys and shook their hands. He kneeled down to talk to them, so he was at their eye level and chatted away. Utter class.
I thanked him and said that was great. He replied "that took a couple of minutes of my time and cost nothing - but these lads will remember today for a very long time". The look on their faces when they thought he knew who they were was priceless.
I would pay his full year even if he never played. Every player who signs for this club, and all the youngsters, need to be taught until it is second nature thay this is what being a Ranger is all about. I'd have him here until he was 75 telling them just that 😀😀😀🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Compare this story to wankers like Windass who wouldn't give anyone the time of day unless he was ordered to (seen it myself) - they all have a lot to learn from Jermain Defoe.

Right on the money, this. From an unexpected source.
Brian Wilson, Celtic director....
IT may be unfashionable to point out but football can create really joyous occasions. Take last Saturday’s FA Cup Final at Wembley with 21,500 people in the stadium, an intimation that normality is again conceivable.

There was an emotional quality to the singing of Abide With Me, dedicated to victims of the pandemic. “When other helpers fail and comforts flee; Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me”. Old words with special meaning as people came together after so long, in this way.

Then there was the game itself, turning on two acts of beauty – the goal from Youri Tielemans which won it and the save from Kasper Schmeichel that thwarted Chelsea. So Leicester, one of our cities hardest hit by the pandemic, had its morale lifted to the heavens.

The occasion was possible through a balanced approach to risk. Putting 21,500 people into Wembley’s open air must carry a scintilla of risk. But keeping them out and playing this special game behind closed doors would surely have done far more harm than good.

In Scotland, such thinking is taboo. Even before the latest Glasgow shutdown, there were to be just 600 supporters inside Hampden for the Scottish Cup Final. Now the vast terraces will be empty. To what good effect or elimination of risk, I wonder?

Last Friday I was in Glasgow Airport, a place of eerie silence these days but suddenly raucous sound announced the arrival of a flight from Belfast which disgorged a platoon of Rangers tops, clearly here for a party. I should make clear the colour of tops is irrelevant to the thrust of my argument.

If anyone had doubts, this confirmed that the following day’s celebrations were going to be a big event attracting supporters from far and near. Given that entry to Ibrox stadium was precluded, the logic pointed to a big event somewhere else – ie the streets, bridges and squares of Glasgow. Who had decided that this was a good – or at least, less bad – idea?

It seemed basic common sense – which would have applied equally regardless of which club had something to celebrate – that the thousands congregating in Glasgow should be allowed to do so in their preferred environment, their own stadium. The choice was not between whether or not people would congregate; only where.

I have still to hear any rational explanation of why it was thought preferable for this to happen in the aforementioned streets, bridges and squares where, as soon transpired, absolutely no rules would apply, than within the confines of a stadium where they all wanted to be and within which some degree of regulation would have been possible.

Then, while I was waiting for my flight, a friend in the hospitality industry phoned in despair to tell me about the latest disaster – the decision not to move Glasgow down to level 2. At this point, the contrast between what everyone knew was going to happen the following day and the latest extension of Glasgow’s lockdown moved from being merely irrational to grotesque.

I have never quite understood why it is forbidden to have a glass of wine with a meal within permitted hours. However, the idea this would continue to be banned in Glasgow on public health grounds while the same politicians and experts had put exclusion from a football stadium before all the blatantly obvious risks inherent in the alternative now appeared incomprehensible and irresponsible.

Yet who does one turn to for an explanation? Who can the beleaguered hospitality industry ask for the right of appeal, based on reason? In what respect is the public health advice in England different to that in Scotland? There are so many questions and after more than a year of this, so few detailed, satisfactory answers.

The decision makers hide behind the mantra that anyone who challenges their edicts is less interested than themselves in public health or protecting the community. That has never been true and should have been called out long before now. The longer this goes on, the more urgent the need for scrutiny.

Keeping Glasgow closed is a blunt instrument which fails to recognise vast differences within its boundaries. Concentrating on postcode areas seems more sensible than relying on boundaries which were drawn in the 1990s for entirely different reasons – primarily to keep more prosperous areas out of Glasgow.

The idea that people are not going to travel from Glasgow for a meal in Bearsden or Kilmacolm does not accord with reality. So the major impact of this blanket ban within the confines of the city is not to limit the spread of the virus but to put another nail in the coffins of good, responsible businesses that are struggling to survive.

If the politicians believe their own rhetoric, why did they not act last Friday to limit the public health damage from the Rangers party? Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf could have made a recording of his pious strictures to be released around 6pm. and then taken the rest of Saturday off. What did he expect in George Square? Community singing of Abide with Me?

Ditto the First Minister who should surely have seen the need for containment within her own constituency? The lesson is that while it is easy to ban things it is within your authority to ban, a greater talent is required for seeing a bigger picture – and that is what they made a complete mess of last weekend.

Michael Stewart straight in with “I don’t think that’s a red card”. Very reluctantly changed his mind on the replay. Could hear how gutted he was. Haha

I get the point that avoiding any fixture backlogs and/or allowing full focus on the league may help our title challenge...I think the reality is very different. Getting knocked out of cup competitions or performing poorly in Europe will likely add pressure and/or raise doubts about the team which I doubt ultimately helps us. Winning is a good habit to get into! Even from the financial side, qualifying from Europa group may be difference between adding an extra player in January or not.
Agree league is absolute priority though!

I get the point that avoiding any fixture backlogs and/or allowing full focus on the league may help our title challenge...I think the reality is very different. Getting knocked out of cup competitions or performing poorly in Europe will likely add pressure and/or raise doubts about the team which I doubt ultimately helps us. Winning is a good habit to get into! Even from the financial side, qualifying from Europa group may be difference between adding an extra player in January or not.
Agree league is absolute priority though!

I get the point that avoiding any fixture backlogs and/or allowing full focus on the league may help our title challenge...I think the reality is very different. Getting knocked out of cup competitions or performing poorly in Europe will likely add pressure and/or raise doubts about the team which I doubt ultimately helps us. Winning is a good habit to get into! Even from the financial side, qualifying from Europa group may be difference between adding an extra player in January or not.
Agree league is absolute priority though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr6ulVFs6do
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZCwgepgvUM
 

Brahim Hemdani disappeared off the face of the Earth after 2008, I wish the club would get him to do an interview
In European games he was like an extra man

my contribution
 

Friendly against Spurs in 2004. Mendes and Defoe played against us that night.