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Meh. No big deal, ǝpɐbıɹq uǝǝɹb ǝɥʇ are full of useless rockets.

As someone just posted, what better way to honour the man, than by taking our title back. Heartbreaking doesn’t even come close.

Gascoigne ripping him a new one smoking a cigar 🤣🤣🤣

As above 💙✋🗡🛡

celtic captain Scott Brown and Rangers manager Steven Gerrard face potential bans after being charged with disciplinary offences by the Scottish FA following Sunday's Old Firm game. And both clubs have been served notices of complaint after a mass confrontation of players at the end of the game. Rangers also await the outcome of Thursday's hearing over Ryan Kent's proposed two-match ban. Hearts and Aberdeen have been charged for a mass confrontation on Saturday. ■ Brown did 'nothing wrong' says McGregor ■ Rangers boss Gerrard will 'help' Morelos ■ Old Firm player behaviour 'unacceptable' Aberdeen lost 2-1 at Hearts the day before celtic beat Rangers by the same scoreline. There were angry scenes as both sets of players confronted each other after the final whistle at celtic Park, with the hosts having moved 13 points clear of Rangers at the top of the table. That gap remains following Wednesday's results, with celtic beating St Mirren and Rangers defeating Hearts. Rangers did so without Morelos and Halliday but Kent played as the club await the outcome of Thursday's tribunal. Morelos will serve a further three matches of suspension. Morelos was sent off for an elbow on Brown in the first half and Kent has been cited for a shove on the celtic skipper just after the hosts scored their second goal. Brown was also involved in a post-match exchange with Rangers' Andy Halliday, which led to the latter receiving a second booking and a red card. Reports suggest Gerrard's charge relates to comments made towards match referee Bobby Madden. celtic host Livingston on Saturday and a win would clinch the title for Neil Lennon's side if Rangers lose at Motherwell on Sunday.

Hopefully the wee bawbag that tried to hit Tav gets a much heavier sentence now due to this being all over the media.

Great post. It's the only thing they have left to try to fuck us over with. They tried to kill us off - we didn't die. They kicked us down the leagues - we came back up. We lost most of our top players - we bought new ones. They tried to take our titles - they failed. They thought we would walk away - we didn't, it only galvanised us & we sold out week on week. It must be absolutely killing them to see us getting closer & closer to our rightful place as the top side in Scotland. If this is all they have, we'll see this new pathetic attempt to hurt us/slow us down off with the same contempt as the other failures. We ARE the people, and don't they fucking know it...

I was trying to remember who had said this about him the other week. Mr Gerrard seems to have an ability to spot the ones who don't have what's required pretty quickly & get shot of them. Sadiq, Windass to name a couple. Good post btw.

Any Bears out there ever seen one of these before. If so, roughly how old is it? I assume that there would have been a club crest where the dimple is maybe? There is a sticker around the bottom that gives the information - Pure Malt 40% Volume Hand made glass bottle Distilled & Hand Filled in Scotland, manufactured under licence by Stylish Whisky on behalf of Rangers FC

Listening to Jim White on Talksport now, apparently he has received an email from Dave King which he will be discussing shortly.

What a fucking arse he is. Make of it what you will... When Police Scotland deems it necessary to give a besieged referee a protective escort in order for him to go to his work then the human reaction is to shake your head and ponder what has become of football in Scotland. The next instinct is to call for influential people to get together to make sure that John Beaton is the last official in this country to get threatened by an enraged fan, as the referee was on Friday when his personal contact details were leaked online, an act that subsequently led to abusive treatment that was taken sufficiently seriously by police that they stepped in to make sure he got into Somerset Park safely on Saturday to oversee Ayr United's Championship joust with Falkirk. Few will need reminding of the backdrop here. Beaton, when refereeing the Old Firm game at Ibrox last month, failed to punish Rangers' Alfredo Morelos for three separate incidents involving Scott Brown, Ryan Christie and Anthony Ralston. Outside of the Ibrox bubble, there has been general incredulity at Beaton's lack of action. ■ Referee Beaton given police escort after 'threats' ■ celtic call for Old Firm referee explanation Among elements of the celtic support, legitimate criticism later turned to rage. Beaton told the Scottish FA that he saw all three incidents in real time and reckoned none were worthy of sanction. The SFA cannot take retrospective action in these circumstances. If their referee says he saw the flashpoint as it happened then his split-second judgement of it takes on a bizarre infallibility in the eyes of the governing body. What happened next was Old Firm football in microcosm. celtic folk are fond of poking fun at Rangers' habit of issuing lengthy statements about perceived injustices against their club. In the past few years, the celtic support has knocked a lot of crack out of 'statement o'clock', the general greeting when another missive comes whizzing out of Ibrox and into the public domain. All of this is to conveniently ignore that their own club is partial to a proclamation or two when they see fit. On Friday, celtic went public with their surprise about the lack of action against Morelos. As is Glasgow football's wont - among sections in the green and blue corners - Morelos being deemed to have no case to answer was, on the one hand, living proof of referee and SFA incompetence bordering on corruption. On the other hand, it was deemed as justice for the unfairly targeted and highly talented Colombian. Some more excitable Rangers people constructed a narrative that Morelos was being highlighted not because he's a player whose discipline has let him down far too often but because others fear him on the pitch and want him out of commission, a view which, according to the conspiracy theory, is being stoked by an inherent racism against him on the part of the media. Refs can't win even if they do speak out This was standard Old Firm ugliness and irrationality in the wake of a contentious match. The temperature was already pretty high when celtic issued their statement on Friday. "Given that the referee took no action at the time, this tends to suggest that such conduct, which in one instance led to a celtic player, Anthony Ralston, being injured, is acceptable in Scottish football," the club said. "That cannot be right." The statement went on: "In order to fully understand what is going on, celtic, our supporters, Scottish clubs and the general Scottish football public need transparency in these matters and we therefore call on the Scottish FA to allow the referee, John Beaton, to explain these decisions publicly as well as any match officials involved in similar circumstances. In the meantime, we have requested a meeting with Scottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell and the association's head of refereeing." In a footballing nirvana, referees would come out after games and talk us through their key decisions, what they saw when giving or not giving that red card, when giving or not giving that penalty. They would talk, everybody would listen and then we'd all go away and reflect on what was said. Supporters would come out with stuff like, "well, I don't agree with Willie Collum's decision to send our guy off while ignoring 18 fouls by their fella, but fair play to him for explaining it". And "all due respect to Andrew Dallas for taking the time to go through why he denied us three stonewall penalties. You can't say fairer than that". No. If a referee admits an error, he's getting it. If he doesn't admit an error, he's getting it. Calling for Beaton to explain himself is not a serious suggestion, not in Scotland. It's never going to happen and everybody knows it. It's a sop to angry fans and sometimes those angry fans career over the boundary of what is acceptable until somebody flies into the realms of what is insane and criminal. And that's what brought us to Friday evening, when Beaton's safety, and the safety of his family, was jeopardised. The SFA issued a statement on Saturday. Apart from expressing concern and support for Beaton, there was a reminder that stakeholders in the Scottish game will gather at a summit at Hampden to discuss the state of affairs at present between clubs and referees and the governing body's overseeing of the game. That'll be a long meeting and - like many of the statements we've been seeing - utterly futile. A couple of years back, there was another such summit and an uneasy peace lasted a metaphorical blink of an eye before the usual dysfunctional relationship returned. No doubt this latest version will pore over the usual chestnuts. Why is a player punished for one offence one week and a different player is not punished for the same offence another week? Why is a manager up on a charge for criticising a referee here but a different manager escapes sanction for the same offence there. When is a kick not a kick, a stamp not a stamp, a grope not a grope? When is a red card not a red card? It's going to be a talking shop, nothing more. Nothing will change. There will be no lasting improvement in relations and no improvement in refereeing performance. Everybody will shake hands at the end after vowing to try harder to understand the other's point of view - and then all hell will break loose again. You'd need to be irredeemably gullible to think otherwise. Is VAR not the answer? It would be nice - and again we're probably flirting with gullibility - if each club was to bring something constructive and something achievable to the table, something that might actually help the situation. VAR should be at the heart of it. Imperfect, yes. Full-proof, no. But better. A step in the right direction. Are celtic in favour of, and willing to invest in, VAR, the system that would help reduce the number of refereeing blunders that they and others have railed against? Their manager, Brendan Rodgers, has said that they would like to see its introduction, but the hierarchy has not had much, if anything, to say. celtic's suggestion as laid out in their statement is no solution. Morelos got lucky, most observers would say so, but their contribution to the debate is just more noise. There's too much of that already. Referees coming out and talking about decisions/errors they have made won't stop them making mistakes. Transparency doesn't do anything to address the core problem. It'll just put them in the stocks - all the easier for everybody to pelt them with rotten fruit. Or worse. When Rangers' Daniel Candeias was shown a second yellow card in the latter stages of their win against St Mirren in November, there was confusion as to what it was that referee Willie Collum actually saw when dismissing the Portuguese. Frankly, several months on, the confusion remains despite the SFA attempting to clear it up. Rangers issued a statement when their call for an appeal was turned down. Like celtic's words from Friday, their statement might have sated their supporters, it might have shown their fans that they're defending the club, but what do these things actually achieve? What do they contribute to the greater good? At the top of the club, Rangers, like celtic, have had nothing to say about VAR. What outcome are these teams looking for? If the object is to get to a place where referees - all of them, seemingly, receptive to VAR and certainly in need of it - have more support in their efforts to make better decisions that would up the integrity of the competition and lessen the fury of some fans while averting the awful sight of officials being targeted then VAR has to be part of the solution. As a piece of constructive thinking, it might be no harm if that could be put in one of these statements sometime. The alternative is more mistakes, more rancour, more bitterness, more mayhem.

This. All day fucking long. Great post mate 👍🏼

Saving all his energy for tonight...

My son saw him in Tesco Musselburgh last night with 3 of his many weans. Wearing fullik sellik training gear. In the bevvy aisle no less. Hows the rehab going then??

Been saying this for a long time. Can anybody name me a better BRITISH keeper? He's earned his place amongst all the great Rangers keepers of all time.

Spot on mate, I don't get to many games due to work, but took my lad to a couple of games this season & when you look down at the dugout and see Steven Gerrard there - it's like the last 6/7 years didn't happen. We are used to World Class managers, players etc - probably what makes the last few years so unpalatable. We all knew we'd be back, nothing surer. Just gutted we didn't get there sooner. The young man is class, it oozes from every pore. Maybe his heart belongs at Anfield, I get that - but until he's ready to move, I honestly think that our magnificent club & support is running it very close. We are lucky to have him.

Lest we forget. My Grandfather Thomas Campbell Dick, veteran of both World Wars. RIP

Sounds like he's hurting. The sordid secret that he's known about all these years has finally come out. He's also probably raging that it's such a massive story and the fact that he's a journalist (allegedly) but can't bring himself to write a damning article about the club that he loves. So what does he do? Writes a nonsense piece about us in a ridiculous attempt to deflect away from his beloved child abusing club. Pathetic little man.

The latest from Vanguard Bears Sunday, 4th November 2018 Once again the Scottish media are using the term "shame game". After the last so-called game in 2011, we have another one that has attracted the media’s attention. What the media have failed to highlight is the common denominator in both incidents - the involvement of one man, namely Neil Lennon For years he has been involved in major incidents within football; and his private life (which I will mention later!) The continuation from his playing days into management of goading opposing fans is his speciality and until the authorities within the Scottish football game or law enforcement agencies act there is a serious risk that it endangers law and order! After a volatile game last Wednesday when the Hearts goalkeeper was attacked Lennon proceeded to antagonise Hearts fans with gestures resulting in one fan throwing a coin at him, never a man to miss a trick Lennon feigned injury pretending he was hit on the face (when everyone else seen it hit his chest!) proceeding to fall and indulge in shameless amateur dramatics! What if Hibs fans had indulged once again in their "over-exuberance" and invaded the pitch and wanted to get involved with Hearts fans? Does no-one in authority care what Lennon could be responsible for or are they scared of him? This is nothing new as in just over a year he has twice tried to wind up Rangers fans gesticulating to them, as well as many other incidents over the years, even resorting to calling Aberdeen fans “sheep shaggers” over a microphone at celtic Park. His notorious friends in the media seem happy to ignore this! The latest excuse that he offers is the claim that behaviour towards him is because he is an "Irish Catholic" and blatantly ignoring the fact that two high profile Managers Martin O’Neill and Brendan Rodgers are both from the same country yet do not yield the same abuse – most probably because they didn’t try to goad opposition fans! The usual suspects wade in as expected. The not so charming Chris Sutton, the resident fool on BT Sport, who was found guilty of spitting in a man’s face in 2000. And Angela Haggerty, who is happy to get any slot on TV now that her career as journalist is over following her recent departure from the Herald - if anybody should understand what bigotry is about then it is Angela. She only has to read what her IRA-supporting bigoted family members post on social media! Then we have Peter "McGuire" Martin, another one whose journalistic career is on the wane. Rumours that the audience for his TV programme consisted of about 200, mostly made up of McGuire’s family members and Alan Rough’s ex-girlfriend’s may well be true! What is definite is that McGuire is desperately trying to find a way back into the money spinning media circus! McGuire had been very silent on Walter Smith, Dick Advocaat & Alex McLeish being sang about as "Orange Bastards" over the years. He also ignored the abuse that Nacho Novo received, and the seriously ill Fernando Ricksen being attacked! Lennon left for England and managing Bolton was as good as his word after telling their fans he would get them out of the championship. He left shortly before they did – unfortunately for them it was down a league rather than up. Another of his managerial failings! Whilst at Bolton he was again exposed as a bully who threatened a mistress with a knife which hastened his departure from the club. Of course this was nothing new as he had previously threatened a girlfriend with violence, Jennifer Johnson, in 2006 after she gave birth to his child. Lennon is intent on causing mayhem within the Scottish game and unless the people at the top of the game act now then something serious will occur It is time for the authorities to act appropriately as it is only a matter of time before someone gets hurt due to his actions, unsurprisingly, even in the aftermath of Wednesday’s unsavoury incidents he still wanted to act the tough guy by claiming he wanted to meet the coin thrower. The lunatic is running the asylum!

Ffs guys Andrew Allan is a simple anagram of - dirty inbred, kiddie fiddling, benefit claiming, nappy ripping, job dodging tarrier bastard.

Very poor tonight. Totally forgot he was even playing until 5 mins before half time. Maybe suited more for Scottish football like Candeias is for Euro games?

Tremendous player, loved watching him slice through defences with ease. Old head on young shoulders my old man used to say. I was there the day it happened, horrible, horrible bastard that did him, no attempt to play the ball as we all know. I'm still convinced to this day that Simpson or some other Aberdeen player had been instructed to nobble him. Durrant had been playing out of his skin on the run up to this game & we were due to play them in the Skol Cup Final only 2 weeks later. Coincidence? Nah - not for me.

Tremendous article. If only it was seen by more than us bears.

Is Stephen Dornan actually Alan Brazil??