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Ex rangers player and fan doesn't like Celtic dominating and tells us the whole of Scotland want and need rangers to be competing.

It's almost like they have a template article written and they just move down their list of Rangers minded men and give them a call:

'Here we've written this article, can we put your name to the quotes?'
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21 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:

 


Ex rangers player and fan doesn't like Celtic dominating and tells us the whole of Scotland want and need rangers to be competing.

It's almost like they have a template article written and they just move down their list of Rangers minded men and give them a call:

'Here we've written this article, can we put your name to the quotes?'

 

That's what I was thinking as well, there are 2 stock headlines that seem to never go away

1. (Insert Rangers related person) says Celtic domination bad for Scottish football

2. (Insert Rangers related person) says Rangers need to invest heavily to catch Celtic

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6 hours ago, 7-2 said:

The Old Firm mindset just doesn't allow them to understand or believe that it makes absolutely no difference to the fans of the 40 other clubs whether it's Celtic dominating on their own or when Rangers were alive and challenging them. 

I think it's genuine too.  They really do not understand or accept that we couldn't care less which of either of the OF wins stuff.

This ludicrous idea of people pretending that their own blatant self interest is in fact an interest in a greater good, is so childish and transparent.  Only a towering lack of self awareness permits it.

 

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Last night Scotland Under-20's beat Brazil 1-0 at the Toulon tournament, a very highly regarded competition. Beating the Brazilians at any level is a massive achievement for us yet every time I've checked the BBC website last night or today the headline feature has been an Old Firm puff piece or a bit about a player in the English 2nd Division crawling to his new manager. The match report has been moved all over the place. What an utter disgrace.

That result and report should have led the way until tomorrow given f**k all else is happening in Scottish senior football at the moment. They were handed a rare opportunity to promote Scottish football and they've shoved it to one side to further promote their beloved bigots instead. Soul destroying doesn't even start to cover it.

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5 hours ago, 7-2 said:

Last night Scotland Under-20's beat Brazil 1-0 at the Toulon tournament, a very highly regarded competition. Beating the Brazilians at any level is a massive achievement for us yet every time I've checked the BBC website last night or today the headline feature has been an Old Firm puff piece or a bit about a player in the English 2nd Division crawling to his new manager. The match report has been moved all over the place. What an utter disgrace.

That result and report should have led the way until tomorrow given f**k all else is happening in Scottish senior football at the moment. They were handed a rare opportunity to promote Scottish football and they've shoved it to one side to further promote their beloved bigots instead. Soul destroying doesn't even start to cover it.

I found out about that result by looking on here in the Tartan Army section. I checked the BBC sport Scotland website for a match report and for at least 3 hours after the final whistle one hadn't appeared.

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Last night Scotland Under-20's beat Brazil 1-0 at the Toulon tournament, a very highly regarded competition. Beating the Brazilians at any level is a massive achievement for us yet every time I've checked the BBC website last night or today the headline feature has been an Old Firm puff piece or a bit about a player in the English 2nd Division crawling to his new manager. The match report has been moved all over the place. What an utter disgrace. That result and report should have led the way until tomorrow given f**k all else is happening in Scottish senior football at the moment. They were handed a rare opportunity to promote Scottish football and they've shoved it to one side to further promote their beloved bigots instead. Soul destroying doesn't even start to cover it.

 

 

Sportsound was even worse, they announced they were going to do a piece on the Toulon Tournament then proceeded to spend 15 mins discussing the only elite player in Scotland is KIERAN TIERNEY, Convieniently forgetting Oliver Burke is actually in Toulon, and how great HAMILTON'S youth policy is, remind me how many players they have in the squad again? [emoji15] .... Ffs.

 

Eh hello, what have any of these two got to do with the Toulon Tournament ?

 

An utter excuse for a NATIONAL radio show.

 

 

 

 

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To be fair to the Scottish side of the media, has it really been talked about much on the English side of the media?  Genuine question, I haven't really seen England's results mentioned much on the BBC either.  TalkSport mentioned a one-liner that they were playing but that was about it.  

Shame generally really - highly regarded youth tournament at a time where there is nothing else really happening.  Why not just get someone a betting account and have them do some coverage of the event.  It'd fill a few articles at least.

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The only thing that is less important than shan, international football is shan, international youth football. What a bizarre meltdown over the coverage of a nothing tournament.


Aye very good, the first Scotland side at any level to beat Brazil is a nothing story [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]
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Just now, C4mmy31 said:

 


Aye very good, the first Scotland side at any level to beat Brazil is a nothing story emoji23.pngemoji23.pngemoji23.pngemoji23.png

 

As much of a nothing story as the same Scotland side getting pumped by the Czech Republic a few days beforehand in the same gubbins tournament. 

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Aye very good, the first Scotland side at any level to beat Brazil is a nothing story [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

It's certainly a big story but it's not our first win over Brazil. The u15 or u16s stuck 5 on them at Pittodrie sometime in late 90s or early 00s. The Brazil lads were tiny and clearly felt the cold [emoji2]
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Reading midfielder Craig Tanner has signed for Scottish Premiership side St Mirren on a two-year deal.

Motherwell boss Stephen Robinson has snapped up the attacking midfielder, who becomes his third new signing of the summer, after he was told he had no future at the Madejski Stadium.

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57 minutes ago, Torpar said:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/mums-relief-after-celtic-fan-10568894

What exactly does being a Celtic fan have to do with the story??

Because the Daily Record, Mirror, S*n, etc. are essentially click-bait journalism. Putting that he's a Celtic fan will be seen as a way to boost readership cause most of their readers will view it as "one of our own" or "one of them". Embarrassing all round.

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It's certainly a big story but it's not our first win over Brazil. The u15 or u16s stuck 5 on them at Pittodrie sometime in late 90s or early 00s. The Brazil lads were tiny and clearly felt the cold [emoji2]


I was quoting this from the Scotsman report, perhaps they meant in a tournament......

"Scot Gemmill’s youngsters gave the nation a huge lift ahead of next week’s Auld Enemy World Cup showdown by becoming the first Scotland side at any level to taste victory against Brazil"
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