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The home game against Marseille, 2-2 in our greatest season (of my lifetime). 2-0 down for almost the whole game, felt like throwing up. Hateley and Mcswegan scored twice in the last 15 mins (i think) to get us the draw. Brilliant night. Thanks Dad!

No, your okay, they all played professional football. Well, apart from Louis Bleriot. I know he played on the wing but I am positive he was never offered a professional contract. Evidence can be obtained by goggling his name. I hear his career took a bit of a nosedive...

Neil Armstrong (first bluenose on the moon) Colonel Kurtz (first mental colonel bluenose up the Mekong Delta) Louis Bleriot (first Ger to cross the channel in an aeroplane) Robert Walpole (first Bear to be the de facto Prime Minister) Ivy Mike (first Rangers hydrogen bomb to be tested) Janice Meek and Daniel Byles (first bluenose mother and son to row an ocean together) Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (first bluenoses to be scale Everest) Edward Jenner (first Ger to invent the Smallpox vaccine) Roger bannister (first Rangers fan to run the mile in under 4 minutes) Did I misunderstand the question?

This guy's just been done for shouting "F***ing Orange B*stard" at the Caley game...and there's two others who've been charged too. Does this mean the police are starting to take sectarianism from the East End seriously now? http://www.<No links to this website>/news/scottish...86908-21093346/

Crazy

You're too sensitive. Next question? We're all adults here and can take some lighthearted banter like this. What did you want him to say? "The excellent Lafferty, who is short and not at all ungainly, scores for the greatest football team in Christendom"? Because that's not what happened.

I'm gonna sing that, regardless of the odd looks that will follow. I may even wear spandex to mark the occassion. I'm with you on that, that's a belter If only we had Mikoliunas playing for us, then we could also shout "Diiiiiiiiiiiive" in Brian Blessed's voice Or even better, Dale Gordon...then we could have "Gordon's ALIIIIVE!" I'll get me coat...

'East Belfast' was a reference to the fact that Glasgow is East of Belfast...sorry if it wasn't clear I don't really think that that's true...Mendes and Thomson have had been more influential (granted Thommo is now injured) and Boyd's been banging in the goals. Davis has done OK but certainly isn't spectacular. I might be making rash generalisations but the NI national side is ranked 52nd in the world and 3 years ago they weren't even in the top 100. Should we be signing players based on their 'international form'? By the way, the reason I raised this topic is that I feel that every time some controversy arises about the club, a story about us signing an NI international appears in the papers (Healy today). It makes me suspicious that the club think they can placate the some of our supporters by hinting that they might fill the team with NI Prods. Or am I just paranoid?

Lafferty for £3M+ Davis for £3M+ And potentially Healy for £2M+ Now, don't get me wrong. These guys are all decent players. But that's it. Davis is an OK midfielder; Healy is an OK striker. Lafferty is...well, let's say he's still to prove himself. That's £8m quid + wages on average players. We could have hoovered up twenty 16-year old prospects for that cash. If only 2 of those kids 20 made the grade, it'd be money well spent. Rangers have a strong protestant heritage; but that doesn't mean we should be an easy stop for NI plyers that can't make the grade elsewhere. It's time to broaden our focus.

It's all about the money I'm afraid...your bro might get the tickets for free but somebody somewhere is shelling out a lot of cash for them. In this case its his employer. I live in London so rarely get up for the diddy games but I got a ticket for Manchester because I was willing to splash out on it. That's really all this comes down to...if you want a ticket enough, and have the money to pay for it, you'll always be able to get one. It's shite but that's the way the world works. EDIT: for spelling and missed words

If that's what you think of Glasgow Uni then I'd better not admit to having got my undergraduate degree from Oxford...

So the SPL has actually been a little more competitive in the past couple of seaosn than at any other time in my memory (I'm still a relative young'un). But in my opinion this is because Rangers and Celtic have got worse, rather than the other sides getting better. And in the meantime, the big European sides have become stronger than we could ever have imagined, largely thanks to massively increased TV revenues. In my opinion, there are only 3 credible scenarios in which the Old Firm will close this financial gulf: 1. Satellite TV revenues get hit massively by the credit crunch/recesison/depression. One or two major providers (i'm thinking on the continent) go bust and renege on their contracts with France/German/Spanish leagues. This leaves some big clubs up Turd River in a dinghy, with huge outgoings and masisve debts, and reduced incomes. UEFA bails out the clubs in peril but all clubs now have substantially reduced TV money. 2. The Old Firm get accepted into the Premiership - possibly in an attempt to bolster TV revenues as a result of a similar financial situation as described above 3. Some form of Atlantic league is created as the larger teams in the wee leagues realise they have to band together - either out of fear (stave off bankruptcy because the economy's gone tits up) or ambition (we need more money to catch up with the big boys) I think 1 is posisble, 2 is impossible. But 3 is the most likely, and I can see it being a 14-team league including: Portugal (Porto, Sporting, Benfica) Holland (Ajax, Feyenoord, PSV) Scotland (Rangers, Celtic) Norway (Rosenborg) Sweden (erm...) Denmark (FK Kobenhavn) Belgium (Anderlecht, Bruges, Liege) To stay competitive, it could have relegation back to the diddy leagues (e.g. if you come in the bottom 3 you get replaced by the winners of a set of play-offs between the champions of the national leagues - e.g. Hearts could beat Alkmaar and get promoted into the Atlantic League to replace Anderlecht) Or am I just spouting nonsense from Planet Goofball?

I seen a dude down at Argyll St, by Central station with dreadlocks and smoking what looked like an almighty spliff. Bob Marley? Nah mate that was Van Bronckhorst, he's coming back as well. Grown his hair and got a dutch accent as a disguise, mind.

Flicking through channels last night I heard the Man U fans sing a song to the same tune as TFS...what was it?

My opinion doesn't matter then because it differs from yours .... WOW, here i thought we lived in a free state that allowed me to believe something contrary to you or anyone else for that matter. Where did I say that? I merely expressed my opinion on your "argument". Are you selective in your espousal of free speech? No. I only "shout about abuse outside" because of that undue focus on one side. Their complaints about the famine song are specious. We sing nothing that breaches any rules these days. They do. Therefore, we are fully justified in pointing to them. I don't deny our more extreme elements, but they gave up the Billy Boys and FTP to protect the club, yet still have people looking for sectarian intent in the word "bouncy" and judging on lyrics not sung by us, but by a couple of blokes who made a youtube video. I don't want to expel anyone from our support because they have different views from me, particularly when they've cleaned up their act. We done enough soul-searching and cleaning up of our act. BJK and the "famine song" are technically not breaches of any rules and the attention on them is basically a result of a timmy agenda. That's not paranoia. You only have to look at their sites to see their campaigning. That's how the Irish Consul was dragged into it. My argument is for balance and fairness. Rubbish. Your argument isn't for balance and fairness, it's for "we've done enough". Not "we've eradicated sectarianism in our support"; you just think we've done some work and that'll do. The Famine Song is on the boundary of wit and bad taste. BJK isn't even funny; it's only value is that it windes up the green hordes. I won't be happy until I can go to a match without hearing some twat bellow something about fenian scum - whether it's in a Belfast accent or a Bellshill one. When that day comes, we can say we've done enough.

sorry radlord and orange clement but i will never go away, also i dont sing bigoted songs at games and i am not a bigot, i have many catholic friends and nursed one of them through cancer before he died. if being proud of being a protestant rangers fan is a crime then guilty of all charges. Great to hear that you don't believe you are sectarian. Just the like (majority) of the rest of us. But tell me - you've heard other people in Ibrox and outside it sing these songs, yes? Ad they sometimes still do, yes? I know I've heard TBB when walking to games these days, even if its not sung in the ground. If we have one supporter who still sings these songs; or one supporter who still uses the word 't***' or 'fenian'; or one supporter who spouts bile about 'Kaffliks'...then we have a sectarian problem.

Celtic's main problem is with their away support - just as ours is. Which is a shame, because it means that the most dedicated Rangers and Celtic fans get a reputation as being the biggest bigots. Surely there's more reason to travel over Europe and Scotland supporting our club than ancient hatreds?

Hear hear. I'm fed up of seeing and hearing the bullet-headed and white-haired in our support going on about fenians and taigs. There's a minority who support our club who see it as vehicle for Protestantism as opposed to a football team. I'm the first to acknowledge our colourful heritage but that's exactly what it is - heritage. Time to move on.

We do have a problem. I'm fed up hearing sh*te about Northern Ireland at Ibrox, a country I have nothing to do with. Celtic have a problem too. But ours, for some reason, gets more attention. And the right approach is to deal with our problem, sort it out, and the rest can go hang.