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    Falcoholic reacted to Blue Avenger in Niko Katic   
    McInnes is a wankstain. End of.
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    Falcoholic reacted to giffnockger in Leigh Griffiith's brothers rant   
    he won't be playing football anymore oh oh oh
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    Falcoholic reacted to harlands plater in Steven Gerrard article from the Beeb   
    If that article was about anyone else I would  say it was nauseatingly sycophantic. The Scottish media has been writing stuff like that for years about  the tarriers.
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    Falcoholic got a reaction from DiamondBear in Steven Gerrard article from the Beeb   
    Steven Gerrard might have retired from football in 2016, but his legacy will long live on whenever anyone plays a football video game in what has become colloquially known as 'Gerrard mode'.
    Think of it as football with superpowers, where one player can push his way from the halfway line into the opposition area with the idea of them being tackled little more than a pipe dream.
    The appeal of the style comes from how unrealistic it is, or at least should be. Football is a team game, and the idea of one man doing it all by himself is something which ought to be restricted to park kickabouts or, yes, video games, not at the elite level.
    However, for Gerrard, this was the reality. Throughout more than 800 games for club and country, he played football how you’ve always wanted to… and he made it work.
    The skills required to be king of the playground are meant to be different from those you need as a pro, and you need only look at any player described as a 'wasted talent' to understand how that works.
    Making the step up requires compromise, at least for 99% of players, but Gerrard forced himself into that remaining 1%. And the same force of will that got him into the game acted as his most valuable quality in achieving what he did in a Liverpool shirt.
    Recalling his childhood kickabouts, the Merseyside-born midfielder would say of the makeshift hard playing surface outside his home in Huyton, Liverpool: “Back then, it was MY pitch – no cars allowed."
    It was there that he developed the nous to determine no game was too big for him to dominate, whether that meant a six-year-old Stevie going up against kids a few years his senior, or the local-lad-made-good, inspiring the Reds to a Champions League final comeback you wouldn’t think possible if you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes.
    When the bigger boys coming to play in your yard is all you’ve ever known, you’re going to play like every pitch you step on is your own turf to protect.
    <img alt="Steven Gerrard makes a trademark fierce tackle in midfield " class="Image-elem" height="1080" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/704xn/p0763jvx.jpg" srcSet="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0763jvx.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/624xn/p0763jvx.jpg 624w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/800xn/p0763jvx.jpg 800w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1056xn/p0763jvx.jpg 1056w" width="1920"/>Getty Images
    Steven Gerrard makes a trademark fierce tackle in midfield
    There has been no player quite at the same level as Gerrard when it comes to sending shots into the back of the net through sheer strength of character.
    He might have fallen desperately short of a Premier League title, but his accolades show us that playing football the way everyone wants to play it can still bring the highest of highs.
    To get a feel for Gerrard’s longevity in Liverpool colours, all you need to do is look at an assortment of his team-mates.
    His early days at Anfield saw him share a pitch with Gary McAllister, who was born in 1964, while Gerrard’s team-mates in his final game included Jordon Ibe, a man 31 years McAllister’s junior. And yet Gerrard was worthy of his place in both generations – and every squad in between.
    While most Liverpool fans will point to Gerrard’s achievements in 2005 and 2006, there was one earlier goal which seemed to encapsulate his body of work even more.
    In the final minute of a Premier League game against Charlton Athletic in April 2003, in which Liverpool had trailed until five minutes from time, Gerrard found a way in between Luke Young and John Robinson where there ought to have been no space whatsoever, before squeezing a low shot beyond Dean Kiely.
    The concept of ‘wanting it more’ is deliberately nebulous, often shared by limited coaches unable to express what they really mean, but on this occasion it’s hard to find another way to describe the midfielder’s route to goal.
    It’s all down to a frankly inhuman sense of self-belief; a refusal to incorporate the term ‘impossible’ into his internal dictionary.
    There might have been moments in Gerrard’s career where such an approach worked against him, but when it served him so well on so many occasions it’s easy to see why he was so keen to persist.
    Refusing to give up
    Liverpool weren’t meant to be anywhere near the 2005 Champions League final, and that they even shared a pitch with AC Milan in Istanbul was down to Gerrard’s intervention against Olympiakos in the final group game.
    Needing to win by two goals to progress, the Reds fell behind to a Rivaldo free-kick and suddenly needed to find three unanswered goals. Obviously, it would be Gerrard who stepped up in the 86th minute to deliver the third and send Anfield wild.
    There was something cinematic about the effort, with the way the ball set up perfectly for the midfielder from Neil Mellor’s knockdown. For that second, those of us watching at home saw the game through Gerrard’s eyes, with that steely focus whereby the ball was only going in one place and goalkeeper Antonis Nikopilidis was not going to get a chance to interfere with destiny.
    Liverpool rode the momentum of that goal all the way through to the final in Turkey, and, having done it once, Gerrard had the belief to do the same once more when his team fell 3-0 down to Milan by half-time.
    Gerrard had a unique power whereby his own refusal to give up could flow through his team-mates. It didn’t matter if the perseverance could sometimes make things worse – if there was even a 1% chance of reviving his team, you could bet he’d give it a shot.
    One year on, in the FA Cup final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, it was time for Act II. If Liverpool were never expected to be in the game in Istanbul, they were never expected to allow their opponents to compete 12 months on - and yet, as the clock ticked into stoppage time, they trailed underdogs West Ham 3-2.
    As the Merseyside club struggled, so did Gerrard. He had gone down with cramp, and the game looked beyond him. But as the ball dropped to him 35 yards from goal, he cobbled together every last ounce of strength in his body to hammer the ball past Shaka Hislop and into the corner of the West Ham net.
    Liverpool's Steven Gerrard Gerrard scores incredible 35-yard FA Cup final equaliser
    It was a case of his powerful spirit mending his broken body, however temporarily.
    Steven Gerrard could well have added more trophies to his cabinet by leaving Liverpool, and yet you got the sense he was only able to produce those against-all-odds recoveries by virtue of that red shirt giving him power. The one-club man is a dying breed in English football, but Gerrard was able to stay with his boyhood club for his entire time in the Premier League, without compromising his pursuit of trophies.
    Only a Premier League title evaded him, and the perfectionist in him explains why he’d later admit he will “never be at peace” with some of the near-misses, but he retired with a body of work any player would be immensely proud of.
    More importantly, though, he achieved everything by bustling his way into a leading role - and refusing to be a passenger.
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    Falcoholic got a reaction from magic8ball in Steven Gerrard article from the Beeb   
    Steven Gerrard might have retired from football in 2016, but his legacy will long live on whenever anyone plays a football video game in what has become colloquially known as 'Gerrard mode'.
    Think of it as football with superpowers, where one player can push his way from the halfway line into the opposition area with the idea of them being tackled little more than a pipe dream.
    The appeal of the style comes from how unrealistic it is, or at least should be. Football is a team game, and the idea of one man doing it all by himself is something which ought to be restricted to park kickabouts or, yes, video games, not at the elite level.
    However, for Gerrard, this was the reality. Throughout more than 800 games for club and country, he played football how you’ve always wanted to… and he made it work.
    The skills required to be king of the playground are meant to be different from those you need as a pro, and you need only look at any player described as a 'wasted talent' to understand how that works.
    Making the step up requires compromise, at least for 99% of players, but Gerrard forced himself into that remaining 1%. And the same force of will that got him into the game acted as his most valuable quality in achieving what he did in a Liverpool shirt.
    Recalling his childhood kickabouts, the Merseyside-born midfielder would say of the makeshift hard playing surface outside his home in Huyton, Liverpool: “Back then, it was MY pitch – no cars allowed."
    It was there that he developed the nous to determine no game was too big for him to dominate, whether that meant a six-year-old Stevie going up against kids a few years his senior, or the local-lad-made-good, inspiring the Reds to a Champions League final comeback you wouldn’t think possible if you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes.
    When the bigger boys coming to play in your yard is all you’ve ever known, you’re going to play like every pitch you step on is your own turf to protect.
    <img alt="Steven Gerrard makes a trademark fierce tackle in midfield " class="Image-elem" height="1080" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/704xn/p0763jvx.jpg" srcSet="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0763jvx.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/624xn/p0763jvx.jpg 624w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/800xn/p0763jvx.jpg 800w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1056xn/p0763jvx.jpg 1056w" width="1920"/>Getty Images
    Steven Gerrard makes a trademark fierce tackle in midfield
    There has been no player quite at the same level as Gerrard when it comes to sending shots into the back of the net through sheer strength of character.
    He might have fallen desperately short of a Premier League title, but his accolades show us that playing football the way everyone wants to play it can still bring the highest of highs.
    To get a feel for Gerrard’s longevity in Liverpool colours, all you need to do is look at an assortment of his team-mates.
    His early days at Anfield saw him share a pitch with Gary McAllister, who was born in 1964, while Gerrard’s team-mates in his final game included Jordon Ibe, a man 31 years McAllister’s junior. And yet Gerrard was worthy of his place in both generations – and every squad in between.
    While most Liverpool fans will point to Gerrard’s achievements in 2005 and 2006, there was one earlier goal which seemed to encapsulate his body of work even more.
    In the final minute of a Premier League game against Charlton Athletic in April 2003, in which Liverpool had trailed until five minutes from time, Gerrard found a way in between Luke Young and John Robinson where there ought to have been no space whatsoever, before squeezing a low shot beyond Dean Kiely.
    The concept of ‘wanting it more’ is deliberately nebulous, often shared by limited coaches unable to express what they really mean, but on this occasion it’s hard to find another way to describe the midfielder’s route to goal.
    It’s all down to a frankly inhuman sense of self-belief; a refusal to incorporate the term ‘impossible’ into his internal dictionary.
    There might have been moments in Gerrard’s career where such an approach worked against him, but when it served him so well on so many occasions it’s easy to see why he was so keen to persist.
    Refusing to give up
    Liverpool weren’t meant to be anywhere near the 2005 Champions League final, and that they even shared a pitch with AC Milan in Istanbul was down to Gerrard’s intervention against Olympiakos in the final group game.
    Needing to win by two goals to progress, the Reds fell behind to a Rivaldo free-kick and suddenly needed to find three unanswered goals. Obviously, it would be Gerrard who stepped up in the 86th minute to deliver the third and send Anfield wild.
    There was something cinematic about the effort, with the way the ball set up perfectly for the midfielder from Neil Mellor’s knockdown. For that second, those of us watching at home saw the game through Gerrard’s eyes, with that steely focus whereby the ball was only going in one place and goalkeeper Antonis Nikopilidis was not going to get a chance to interfere with destiny.
    Liverpool rode the momentum of that goal all the way through to the final in Turkey, and, having done it once, Gerrard had the belief to do the same once more when his team fell 3-0 down to Milan by half-time.
    Gerrard had a unique power whereby his own refusal to give up could flow through his team-mates. It didn’t matter if the perseverance could sometimes make things worse – if there was even a 1% chance of reviving his team, you could bet he’d give it a shot.
    One year on, in the FA Cup final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, it was time for Act II. If Liverpool were never expected to be in the game in Istanbul, they were never expected to allow their opponents to compete 12 months on - and yet, as the clock ticked into stoppage time, they trailed underdogs West Ham 3-2.
    As the Merseyside club struggled, so did Gerrard. He had gone down with cramp, and the game looked beyond him. But as the ball dropped to him 35 yards from goal, he cobbled together every last ounce of strength in his body to hammer the ball past Shaka Hislop and into the corner of the West Ham net.
    Liverpool's Steven Gerrard Gerrard scores incredible 35-yard FA Cup final equaliser
    It was a case of his powerful spirit mending his broken body, however temporarily.
    Steven Gerrard could well have added more trophies to his cabinet by leaving Liverpool, and yet you got the sense he was only able to produce those against-all-odds recoveries by virtue of that red shirt giving him power. The one-club man is a dying breed in English football, but Gerrard was able to stay with his boyhood club for his entire time in the Premier League, without compromising his pursuit of trophies.
    Only a Premier League title evaded him, and the perfectionist in him explains why he’d later admit he will “never be at peace” with some of the near-misses, but he retired with a body of work any player would be immensely proud of.
    More importantly, though, he achieved everything by bustling his way into a leading role - and refusing to be a passenger.
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    Falcoholic reacted to Malvern in Mcleish sacked   
    The SFA lost me in 2012 andI will never return, go and fuck yourselves and win nothing with your SNP voting hordes of papes.
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    Falcoholic reacted to bordersbear in Rangers - Media Coverage   
    Don't Fucking fund them. Don't buy a tv licence.
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    Falcoholic got a reaction from surfsup2 in Player of the Year awards tonight   
    Yeah this.
    The players looked like they were enjoying themselves and why not? The players I spoke to were happy to chat but the selfie hunters must do their nut in. They got little peace through their dinner cos people wouldn't leave them alone.
    I enjoyed the night. 
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    Falcoholic reacted to KeyserSoze in Jake Hastie   
    At one time the Cross Keys was the biggest RSC in Scotland 
     
    just saying like 
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    Falcoholic reacted to Blueteeth in Jake Hastie   
    There’s a new Stevenston? I thought after they built the first one they’d have learnt their lesson! 
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    Falcoholic reacted to Sparkle in Most Exotic/Interesting/Unlikely/Awful Places You've Watched A Gers Game   
    The jungle (at the midden)
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    Falcoholic reacted to surfsup2 in Player of the Year awards tonight   
    It's good for the players to unwind together with the fans the old team that drinks together 👍
    Yes they could have probably been more open with  the fans who paid money to be there.
    But it's probably the first some of these players have been to something like this and if you've ever been to one prob frightened the ass of some of them As the closest they've been to the fans.
    Your a foreign player amongst bears with a drink and wanting a selfie 🤣Scary as f 🤣.
    Plus they know if they say or do anything it's straight on social media so a no win situation.
    lets just let it be a good awards night and not give the media amo to hit us with as we don't need  to feed negative stories .
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Falcoholic reacted to ricksen_da_best in Player of the Year awards tonight   
    See to be fair. How often do the players get a night out together, being able to have a drink etc and enjoy themselves. Very rarely I’d imagine. The last thing I’d want is someone chasing me down for photos every time I go for a piss etc. I know it comes with being a Rangers player but they should be allowed to enjoy themselves at a night like that without people asking them for photos all night.
     
     
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    Falcoholic got a reaction from starofdavid in What will the board do.   
    Nothing!
    As usual
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    Falcoholic got a reaction from Courtyard Bear in Scum attack Toby jug.   
    After a game like that, why would any Rangers fan be in that area? High Street, Trongate, Gallowgate, Merchant City is full of tarrier republican slop houses?
    Fingers crossed it's a green on green incident
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    Falcoholic got a reaction from siddiqi_drinker in Scum attack Toby jug.   
    After a game like that, why would any Rangers fan be in that area? High Street, Trongate, Gallowgate, Merchant City is full of tarrier republican slop houses?
    Fingers crossed it's a green on green incident
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    Falcoholic reacted to Prso's headband in Morelos MUST stay   
    Best player in the league end of. 
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    Falcoholic reacted to the brown brogue in Anyone fancy a night out???   
    Sounds great, a night of Rangers bashing, lamenting the loss to Scottish football of a legend like Rodgers whilst wanking over 'great guy Lenny' and waxing lyrical about the tarriers in general. 
    And Craigan, Sutton and Stewart will be even worse. 
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    Falcoholic reacted to Howsitgoing in James Dornan (SNP) - Club 1872 Apology   
    I think I recall reading an newspaper article in where labour msp’s refused to take a complaint further because that idiot is regarded as an asset to the labour cause, due to his ability, hence they were concerned he might lose his SNP status.
    This latest gaff shows they are 100% correct in their assertions.
     
    Edit found it.
    ”Labour, who privately wanted Mr Dornan to remain the candidate as they saw him as weak, said the Nationalist campaign was in "complete, utter and total meltdown".”
    https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12391481.snp-by-election-candidate-quits-five-days-after-selection/
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    Falcoholic reacted to magic8ball in Allen   
    numerous angry threads since last night. 
    get rid of this one get rid of that one 
    haven't saw any suggestions of people that would improve us 
    This is why I try and steer clear of th3 forum after shite results 
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    Falcoholic reacted to Marky. in Allen   
    Fuck it, KK, start a thread on every employee currently at the club.
    Let’s get angry!
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    Falcoholic got a reaction from scottyscott1963 in SFA & SPFL to introduce new measures to combat crowd trouble   
    Reminds me of the days that baw bag Alistair Hood was mooching about Ibrox looking to ban supporters left right and centre. An ex cop, he was nicknamed the Hooded Claw. Plenty supporters got bans back then because of him, but I don't recall any of the mhanks getting the same treatment from their club
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    Falcoholic reacted to BLUEDIGNITY in SFA & SPFL to introduce new measures to combat crowd trouble   
    It's only us Unionists that are after anyway the traitorous rhat fucks ! 
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    Falcoholic reacted to Bears r us in SFA & SPFL to introduce new measures to combat crowd trouble   
    I would imagine that means the tarriers will get away with anything they do and we will not. 
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    Falcoholic reacted to 1690tamRFC in The silence is deafening   
    10 months sentence for someone spitting on a priest, yet the cunt that went for Tav will no doubt get a community service order at best. 
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