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Got 4,600 instead of the full 5,000 which is still OK.

Turned into a kicking match and fighting in the tunnel after it apparently. Totenham not gracious losers.

Congratulations Leicester. Earned it.

MARK WARBURTON is confident striker Martyn Waghorn is on course for a Scottish Cup final berth after making his return to action against St Mirren on Sunday. Rangers rounded off their Championship campaign with a 2-2 draw against the Buddies as they extended their winless league run to four matches. But the performance of Waghorn was one of the main positives for boss Warburton as the 26-year-old was handed a start after several weeks out of action with a knee injury. Rangers now have a three week build-up to their final showdown with Hibernian and Waghorn will be given another run-out in a behind-closed-doors friendly with Tottenham Hotspur. He showed no ill-effects of his time on the side lines as he twice came close to scoring during his hour on the park and Warburton was pleased with a positive showing from his star striker. He said: “It is all credit to him and the physios for the work that has been done. He has come back, is fit, hungry, sharp and you can see that he want to play. “We are delighted to get an hour of him, he will play 75 minutes in the next game, and will be ready for the final. “He has a chance of starting. He has worked hard and looked really fit. He looked as if he hadn’t been away. There was no rustiness to speak of on a difficult surface and I thought he was very good. “So as I said he will play 75 minutes in the next game. He has made a good case for selection.” Rangers will head into the final on May 21 without a win in four games after they were held by the Buddies at the Paisley 2021 Stadium. Former Ibrox kid Calum Gallagher put Alex Rae’s side ahead in the first half but goals from Kenny Miller and Jason Holt had looked to have clinched the points for the Light Blues. Rangers were denied at the death as Lewis Morgan levelled with just seconds to go but Warburton was satisfied with an improved showing from his side. He said: “I was delighted with the second-half. The pitch was dry and difficult for both teams, but they were brave on the ball, had runners, created chances and hit the woodwork. “We have to look at the equaliser but that’s game two of or lead-up to the final. “It was a second half, it’s just a shame the 92nd equaliser dampened things a bit. “That was the reaction I wanted after the Livingston game. We had lots of good things. We were really good in the second-half.” It may have been a disappointing end to the campaign as Rangers let another two points slip through their grasps but there were reasons to be optimistic for Warburton. Striker Miller netted his 20th goal of an impressive season as he pulled the Gers level early in the second half and Warburton is thrilled with the contribution of the 36-year-old. He said: “Kenny himself would have been delighted with 20 goals, I would have been more than delighted with that figure. It is credit to the way he works every day. “The way he eats, trains, rehydrates himself. The work he does every day is a great credit to him. “He is a superb professional, a great role model to the young players. There is no doubt about that. It is not by chance he has scored 20 goals.” Rangers will now focus their attentions on Scottish Cup glory as they look to clinch a third medal this term after their Championship and Petrofac Training Cup successes. Everton are the latest club to be linked with a move for boss Warburton but the Englishman has once again brushed off speculation about his future. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/rangers/14464810.Martyn_Waghorn_on_course_for_Scottish_Cup_spot_after_Rangers_return/?ref=eb

It's a lot of games in a relatively short space of time and in this instance I want them to be winning to give them more to deal with which can only suit us. I would guess the play off final against what at this time would appear to be Kilmarnock will be after the cup final which leaves Kilmarnock dragging their heels into June when everybody else is off on break.

I think the semi matches come before the cup final according to this link which was posted just yesterday. Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership play-off quarter-final, first legs Wednesday May 4 Raith Rovers v Hibernian (1945 BST) Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership play-off quarter-final, second legs Saturday May 7 Hibernian v Raith Rovers (1230 BST) Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership play-off semi-final, first legs Tuesday May 10 Hibernian/Raith Rovers v Falkirk (1945 BST) Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership play-off semi-final, first legs Friday May 13 Falkirk v Hibernian/Raith Rovers (1945 BST) Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership play-off final Details to be confirmed... http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/article/165/10265964/scottish-professional-football-league-play-offs-schedule-and-results

A loss in the final which personally I don't think for a moment will happen but if it did will mean nothing to the future of Mr Warburton at Rangers despite the massive disappointment that would be for the club and the fans. If we don't win this final in which we have everything going for us including being the better team it will be the fault of the players not Mr Warburton and that's another factor in our favour. Every one of them is playing for his spot in the team next season and they know it and aside from that we have looked wobbly at times already this season but they have always turned up when it really counted and that's not going to change now. The Stubbs brigade are what they are and will largely remain so for next season no matter what happens for them from here on in and that alone should drive the neutrals to want Rangers to win this cup instead of sending a team into Europe that will be out again before the postcards get back. It should be that way but it wont be. Aside from being a better team than them they have 4 cup finals to play over the next 3 weeks before they can even think about us while our guys can chill out and prepare for what will be the most important game of their career so far for many. They will be fresh and raring to go with not a knock in sight while Stubbs and his band if they're lucky will have been kicked black and blue through 4 bruising encounters leading up to this final and will have another two to consider after it. This is our final, we earned it and we're going to win it and use that Euro platform with it's prestige and financial boost to drive us back to where we belong at the pinnacle of the game in Scotland. I'm looking forward to seeing a Warburton team play in Europe.

No they didn't, he chose to leave because they were instituting a system which meant he wouldn't have control over recruitment and since the Sun couldn't even get that right which could have been accomplished in seconds on google I don't give the rest of it any credibility. As for Mark Warburton such stories are never ending. If the team does well next season especially if that included a good Euro run those type of stories will go into overdrive.

Reply from my tax man brother regarding whether this guy could have gained any access to confidential data.

I said i doubted he would have legitimate access. And since you appear to have nothing to say that doesn't contain what amounts to abuse of a fellow fan I will just put you on the ignore list now because I didn't come here to take shit like that from you or anyone else. And that's disappointing because you're now the 10th on a list in a forum where I thought people were brothers in arms so to speak but where it turns out there is a faction with a mindless tendency to be pointlessly insulting.

You don't understand it. I know more about databases than the fact they contain data and it's accessible and editable. You think I need to know anything about chip architecture and how gates in a processor work to be a network IT guy? I don't but I do know a lot more than I need to simply because they tack all this stuff on to it. I have a bachelors degree. Most IT guys do not manage data in the sense that they are accessing or organising data in any way. They are managing the means to access and share the data among specific individuals and keep it secure. Most people who access it know little more than how to use the specific program they're working with. Now if you want to continue down some irrelevant path that has nothing to do with the core of this topic that's your decision but you're verging into making a tit of yourself territory for no reason I can think of other than being pointlessly confrontational with a fellow fan.

No but I have some knowledge of how databases are constructed and how they operate. Part of the college training but the main training concerned networking. They tack all sorts of shit on to it just to familiarise you with what the people using a network are doing.

It's standard practice he was taught by those who trained him. What else would you suggest when you're an investigator being paid to investigate? Just don't give a fuck and never catch anybody? It's called professionalism and it's the only way to get ahead when that's what you're being paid for. You think the cops who deduce somebody is a drug dealer because they're seeing him buy expensive equipment while on the dole are just being bawbag jobsworths? Or are they doing the job their being paid for? No an IT guy never accesses data. Consider the data being the contents of a book. If the book cannot be opened he will solve that problem. Once he gets the book opened he doesn't need to read it all he will see for example is the preface not the data. That's what databases are like. As for the American president my username has nothing whatsoever to do with him. It's simply my initials and I share no names with him.

Possibly. I don't know how they would operate in a tax centre most of the work I did was for private businesses in small offices and there was always someone around watching. Usually the guy who couldn't access his data.

You're approaching it from the wrong angle. You don't need to access data to make it accessible. Do you need to go raking through all the rooms and cupboards in a house to get the door open for entry? It's a similar scenario. If data is inaccessible it's his job to find out why and rectify it not go trawling through the data. People I have worked with would be pretty pissed off if they thought I was trawling through their data when all I was supposed to do was make it accessible.

I have no idea if he needs to sign such things because he isn't a tax man but I do know when my brother began working for them he had to sign the official secrets act because he did and still does have free access to confidential information. I doubt some IT guy would have access to any such data at all and I'm thinking that because I have worked in the IT field. There is no need to have any access to data bases so given that fact I would guess he didn't have access or at least not legitimate access. Might be another thing I could ask I suppose. Whether such a person would also be signing official secrets act.

See a thing about this is my brother at one stage was an investigator. He's the guy who will come after you if they think you're dodging your full share. A thing he once told me is that only the police and the tax men can trace a car licence plate number. When he was on his way to work or just driving about anywhere at all if he saw someone driving an expensive car he would take the number then check to see if the registered owner had paid enough taxes to be thought able to afford such a car. Crafty stuff. But as he said in his first reply this guy isn't a tax professional and I'm guessing that if he were accessing confidential information it may have been illegitimate. An IT guy doesn't need data access to do his job.

Trying to clarify things a bit further. Just sent this reply to my brother.

Got a reply from my tax man brother about this guy.

Recent form is irrelevant. There has been nothing to play for recently and nobody wants to be injured ahead of this final. They were good enough to beat everybody in this league while winning it at a canter and they're still that good. Every player will be standing up for this one because they all know what this means for the club and the fans and their own chances of being a first choice in European competition next season.

My brother is a tax officer who worked at East Kilbride for years though is now in customs and excise at the airport. I'm going to email him asking if he knows this individual which could at least verify some of the claims about him.

You think I imagined football is biology? You think anybody did? If you want to be nitpicky about terms call it whatever you like but in football the fittest which historically has been those with the largest fan bases had the largest budgets which all other things being equal generally meant they were the most successful. Natural selection in this case is simply rhetorical and rhetoric is a typical manner of conversation but as I said if you don't get that you can insert whatever you please into it. I would guess most people got the drift without pointlessly overthinking it.

I like this bit. Their fans all seem to think that Crooks is the greatest loss and he looks like a good solid chunk of a guy. Be interesting to see what he can do in pre-season when they are bound to give him a run out.

There isn't a snowballs chance in hell that they will string together 4 straight wins while Kilmarnock lose all 4, they're finished and given what's waiting for them down there in the likes of Falkirk, Raith, HIbs etc it could be sometime before they come back. They wanted Rangers out of their league and they got it for even longer than they thought.

How the club with the Football League's smallest budget are verging on promotion from League Two Accrington Stanley are on the verge of promotion from a division in which they have the smallest budget, the second lowest average attendance and are waging a constant battle to keep their best players. So how is this tiny Lancashire club outperforming teams such as Portsmouth and Plymouth in the race to get promoted to Sky Bet League One? Accrington manager John Coleman, who is in his second spell with the club, filled us in… It is fair to say that whatever Accrington do from this point of the season, they are already punching well above their weight. Stanley will be promoted on Saturday if they win at Wycombe and Oxford and Bristol Rovers fail to collect three points. Plymouth Argyle also remain in the race to go up automatically but a four-point gap exists between them and Accrington, who are second behind a Northampton side already crowned champions. Their corresponding fixture against Wycombe last month drew a crowd of just 1,403 to the Crown Ground, admittedly on a Wednesday night, but a figure not far short of their season average of 1,718. Only one club in the division has a lower number - Morecambe with 1,570 - and although 2,222 turned out for Accrington's resounding 3-0 win over York City last weekend, that was a tiny gate compared to some of the others in Sky Bet League Two. There were more than 9,000 at Plymouth for their defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge, while Oxford were 45 short of an 8,000 crowd when they played host to Hartlepool. Portsmouth drew a vast 16,187 for their match against Wycombe Wanderers. "We've officially got the lowest budget in the Football League, and that's confirmed," Coleman said. "Our budget will be a fraction of what a Luton or a Portsmouth would spend and perhaps rightly so because we get a fraction of their crowds. "But it's not about money here. Nobody is coming to play for Accrington for the money or for the glory of playing for the club - they're here because they're hungry and because they're honest. "It really all boils down to enthusiasm. Our training facilities are awful, so we can't attract players that way either. We have one council Astroturf pitch which we use for all of our training - and that's if the Football in the Community people don't need it. "So we have to target hungry players who are good footballers and who want to play for us because they love football. Money is never going to be a motivation for the players we sign. "Character is everything and you're reliant on word of mouth to know that about a person. Sometimes it's a punt but we get more right than we get wrong." As well as starting the season with a strong squad, Accrington have also benefited from the ability to strengthen in it the January transfer window. In previous years, the club's concerns during that month of change would have been all about keeping the players they had rather than bringing in any new ones, but the deal which saw local businessman Andy Holt buy the club in October meant that, for the first time, there was room to manoeuvre. Holt eventually wants to completely replace Accrington's character-packed but dated Crown Ground and has already submitted planning permission to build one new stand, but for now the focus for Coleman is concentrated on getting things right on the pitch. With that in mind, centre-back Mark Hughes, available following his release by Stevenage, and Grimsby midfielder Scott Brown - two players whose careers have been largely nomadic - were added to give the squad some depth. It certainly helped - the team were eighth on February 1 but have not been below that since, and have climbed to second after losing just twice in 18 games. Coleman said: "We would never have been able to do what we did in January in previous years. "The new owner didn't throw a load of money at it but what it [the takeover] did give us was a bit of leeway in what we could do in the window. "We signed three players permanently and brought in two on loan. Before, that might have been just one or two on loan. So it gave us that option. "Again, it was important to get the right type of player. We want ones who will play a certain way because we want to play out from the back and that isn't to everyone's taste. "Some teams in this league want to go long but we don't do that and it's important we got the players in who knew that." Recruitment has, therefore, been vital. In the summer, Coleman snapped up Tom Davies when he was released by Fleetwood and then went to non-league FC Halifax for Matt Pearson - both have been crucial components in defence. Billy Kee, an Accrington loanee six years ago, ended a wandering career which took in Torquay, Burton, Scunthorpe and Mansfield - all in the space of less than two years - when he signed on in the close season. His reward for the security offered by Stanley has been to score 17 goals for them this season. The prize capture was possibly Huddersfield midfielder Matt Crooks, who was last week named in the PFA team of the division for the season after a superb campaign which has also earned him a transfer to Rangers. Joining Crooks on that move to Ibrox will be Josh Windass, who was part of a group of several high-quality players inherited by Coleman when he arrived which also included Piero Mingoia, the club's Italian midfielder who is yet to miss a game this season. Watching good players leave Accrington for clubs with bigger resources is something Coleman has had to get used to, having seen several members of the team he took to the play-offs in 2011-12 snapped up by more illustrious suitors. When the side entered the play-offs that season, nine key members of their squad had already agreed deals elsewhere, but - the Rangers departures aside - such troubles should now be a thing of the past. "It's a bit different now," said Coleman. "The Rangers ones were a bit out of our control because of the situations with the contracts. "But we're in a position now where we can offer people longer-term deals - you can't go throwing two and three-year deals around when you're in debt and living hand to mouth. "There was a time when all of our income was going on financing the debt we were in but the aim now is to have the club on an even keel." In terms of that, everything seems set fair - the team is strong and a plan is in place to improve the ground. And Coleman remains confident his ultimate wish will be granted. "We need a training ground," he said. "I really would love that." http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11776/10262670/the-rise-of-accrington-stanley-how-the-club-with-the-smallest-budget-in-the-football-league-are-on-the-verge-of-promotion