Kaiser Wull
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He'll be with us for another season, but I can see him getting more game time at RB than CB. In truth, he's not Rangers quality but he tries his heart out and deserves our respect for that.
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Stop the bread puns? No chance. We're on a roll...................
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There's been far too much waffle on this thread...
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heard the tims are boycotting bread!!
Good. That means there will now be two supermarket aisles - bread and soap - that are untarnished by their presence.
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You seem to be suggesting that drugs ought to make everybody as good as each other. It's entirely logical that if we assume everybody is taking drugs, one of the drug-takers has to be the slowest, so not running the "stupidly fast times" of others doesn't necessarily make someone clean. Simply being able to compete with the dopers would push a clean athlete into the freak talent category. Calvin Smith may really be that freak. He was certainly built like the old generation of sprinters, not the new generation. Looking at him standing next to Johnson and Christie is hilarious. I'm happy to give anybody untainted by any suggestion of doping the benefit of the doubt. The secret recordings of Wells' doctor make that a little harder.
Johnson was already on steroids in 1982. Of course he wasn't at his peak, he was 21. When Wells was 21 he wasn't even a sprinter. Wells' best time would have won him silver in Los Angeles, ahead of a doped Johnson. It would have taken bronze from a ridiculously doped Christie in the 1987 world championships. He might not have ran elite times against the best fields at major championships, but then neither has Asafa Powell. He still ran them.
I'm well aware that not all cheats perform equally well, but thanks for pointing it out anyway. Next you'll be telling me that Elvis is dead.
My argument is that it is plausible that Wells could have achieved what he did without the aid of drugs, not that drugs are an equaliser.
First, though, let's look at Linford Christie.
You say that Christie was 'ridiculously doped' at the '87 World Championships, but where is your evidence for that assertion? We all know that Christie narrowly escaped disqualification at the '88 Olympics after testing positive for pseudoephedrine and was later busted for use of performance enhancing drugs. But in 1987? There's simply no evidence on which to base your claim.
Christie finished fourth, incidentally, at the '87 Worlds. He was retrospectively awarded bronze after Johnson was busted at the '88 Olympics.
I disagree with your point about times. The track surface and atmospheric conditions always play a large part in determining the times for a particular 100m race. Wells' best time was set on a different day and on a different track to the races you mention, so it's not relevant to the races you mention. And Wells certainly didn't match it at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, when he finished behind all three Americans.
I agree that Cal Smith could have been a freak of nature. He was a wonderful athlete. However, is it really implausible that someone with a lower level of natural talent but who made up for it with hard work and determination could have competed at the highest level without using performance enhancing drugs? I believe that to be possible. Difficult, but possible.
A good, clean runner who had a strong race could have beaten Johnson at the Commonwealths in 1982. Cameron Sharp very nearly did, and I don't recall anyone suggesting that he ever took drugs. Was Sharp a freak talent? No. He was a fine runner who was, at his peak, a notch or two below the likes of Lewis.
It's therefore plausible that Wells, who was both a more experienced man than Sharp and Johnson and fresher at that late point in the season (he'd missed a good chunk of the season through injury) could have beaten Johnson that day without taking drugs.
The question is: did he? I believe he did.
I'll leave the last words to Wells' former coach.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/former-coach-denies-allan-wells-was-a-doping-cheat-1-3791952
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Also this. The guy beat, on various occasions, the elite sprinters and known dopers, Carl Lewis, Ben Johnson and Linford Christie. Is that plausible? As a clean, not to mention white, man?
Yes, it is plausible. Wells never ran the sort of stupidly fast times that Lewis, Johnson and Christie all managed. His PB for the 100m (without wind assistance) was 10.11. His 200m best was 20.21.
Moreover, Wells didn't beat Lewis, Johnson or Christie at a major championships (he did beat Johnson at the Commonwealths in 1982, but that was long before Johnson's peak). The significance of that should be clear enough.
The one top sprinter that Wells never beat was Calvin Smith. Smith never failed a drugs test in his career and has never, to my knowledge, been accused of being a drugs cheat. To this day, he says that he won the 1988 Olympic 100m final, as he was the first 'clean' athlete to cross the line.
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Stuart McCall admitted Dick was up in his office eyeing up the curtains.
He must have at least been a consultant of some kind.
Eyeing up curtains, eh? A feng shui consultant?
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Never seen the Doc. but it sounds like the tabloid junk that made me give telly up though.
I do remember he was nothing but muscle at the time. We thought nothing of it. It seems as though athletes were all at it and as long as you weren't taking more serious stuff the steroids were the norm.
It would be more interesting as to who wasn't taking them.
There's a great book by Richard Moore, "The dirtiest race in history", that lifts the lid on a lot of what was going on back then.
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Alan Wells? Disappointing but not really that surprising.
I wouldn't be too inclined to rely on the BBC as being reliable arbiters of guilt or innocence.
Let's see where this goes. If these allegations are unfounded - and I really hope they are - then the BBC could well be staring down the barrel of a jury in an English libel case.
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Purely for the inevitable cup game vs. Motherwell:
Chuck Norris
Bruce Lee
Bilel Mohsni
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There's no rocket science involved in analysing what happened.
The game was over. Mohsni was walking off the pitch and minding his own business when Erwin shoved him from behind. That was an unprovoked assault. Mohsni reacted in the heat of the moment. He kicked and punched Erwin then turned away again and once more headed towards the dressing rooms. Erwin stood with his arms spread and did not pursue Mohsni. The incident was clearly over at that point, and it's likely that nothing further would have occurred if Mohsni had been allowed to leave the field without being further molested. However, a number of Motherwell players set about him. They had no legitimate reason for so doing.
Let's be clear about this: they attacked Mohsni. They did not go to the assistance of their team-mate - they could not do so because he was no longer embroiled in an altercation with Mohsni and did not require their assistance. Nor did they react to provocation from Mohsni. He did not act aggressively towards them. This stands in contrast to Mohsni's response to Erwin - unlike them, he had been attacked.
On being attacked - for the second time - Mohsni defended himself. He had every right to do so, as he had been attacked by several persons and could not easily have retreated. At this juncture, Erwin ran into the melee and aimed a kick at Mohsni. That alone was deserving of a red card. The SFA cannot be blind to this.
The incident would not have happened had Erwin not attacked Mohsni from behind. Mohsni overreacted, but allowance has to be made for the fact that he was taken by surprise and acted in the heat of the moment. He had not shown any previous intention to engage in physical violence towards any Motherwell player and he did not continue to strike Erwin beyond his initial flurry.
Moreover, that would have been the extent of the incident had the Motherwell players not then set about Mohsni mob-handed. He was struck and kicked and was entitled to act in his own defence.
Mohsni may not be wholly blameless, but he is less culpable than Erwin and the other Motherwell players who attacked him. If the SFA cannot see that then they have a very serious problem indeed.
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The Scottish media seem more than happy to don their tackety boots any time that there's the merest hint of a negative story about Rangers. However, the same journalists have shown no interest in investigating the sale of land at Lennoxtown and Westhorn to Celtic.
As a reasonable man, I accept that it may well be the case that both transactions are completely above board, but the information unearthed by the likes of pzj_1 and FTH gives rise to some questions that call for answers. One would therefore expect the Scottish media to be in hot pursuit of these answers, but none of the usual suspects seem willing to touch the story with the proverbial bargepole.
That begs a very pertinent question: why? Is it so obviously a non-starter as a story, or might there be some other reason?
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Tbh i thought the flag stick thing was an accident,you can see the guy trying to flick the ball with it.
If he meant it he was fly as fuck.
He hit McCulloch twice. Look at the expression on his face as he's wielding the pole. It was no accident.
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Wow, honest guy. On radio Scotland the Motherwell chief exec is defending his players and fans
Whereas our board and manager seemed happy to throw Mohsni under the bus....
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Moshni was walking off the pitch minding his own business when he was attacked by the Motherwell beast nothing would have happened if the wee scumbag hadn't put his hands on Moshni first.
Yup.
The incident was already over - Mohsni had turned his back on Erwin after lamping him and was walking away - when those brave Motherwell lads attacked him mob-handed. They are to blame for the incident escalating.
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Erwin is a lying wee bastard.
Hope Moshni tracks him down and kneecaps the cunt
Did you see him run in and take a fly kick at Mohsni after Kerr and Co. attacked him?
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Mohsni.
Aye, as security.
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Of the guys who are contracted to us, I'd keep the young lads plus McGregor (as a right back, not as a CB) and - at a push - Wallace. The rest can shuffle off into the distance.
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Fair enough he doesn't rate him but that doesn't mean he shouldn't have been more circumspect in his interview.
A very fair point.
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Police Scotland have now released a statement saying that they are investigating but it seems no one has been arrested.
Have you a link, mate?
They didn't mention alleged racial abuse in the statement I saw.
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It may end up in court as Mohsni is claiming he was racially abused by Erwin. So Erwin has been arrested.
That leads to court I believe.
I will say, it was on twitter that Erwin was arrested, so I cannot be 100% sure on this.
It was reported on that fake Simon Rowntree account on twitter and is, therefore, pish.
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He punched someone. Let that sink in.
He was assaulted - a shove is technically an assault. Let that sink in. He shouldn't have punched Erwin but, unlike Erwin's decision to shove him, it was a spur of the moment reaction. There was no justification for Erwin to do what he did. He should have walked away and celebrated a big win for his team. Instead, he caused a stooshie that otherwise would not have happened.
Davie Weir Interview
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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Exactly. He gave his all for Rangers, and that was a hell of a lot more than most...