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Another fine mess from Michael Gannon.

He even manages to get a mention of Rangers into a discussion piece about this season's European football.

Never heard of him but that column is fucking atrocious.

First of all "So we’ve had four games in Europe already and not won a single one." What's more worthy of "beamers" Michael? Losing a European tie on away goals with half the first team missing or not getting a basic fact correct? You could also say we'd lost 1 out of 4.

"Scotland’s top flight is now 
23rd in Europe and plummeting. We can’t play qualifiers any 
earlier. The next step is joining the Gibraltar league." 23rd? Top half then? f**k sake.....

"Don’t hit us with this notion 
that we have found our level. 
Scotland is a wee 
country – but not that wee. Three Irish 
clubs managed to get through the other night."

3 out of 7 teams got through, a worse ratio than our 50%. And one of them got through on away goals against a team from Luxembourg. Glentoran got humped 7-1 by a Slovenia side and St. Partick's got well beaten by Skonto Riga.

Also suggesting that Rangers would fair any better in Europe is a complete red neck since they have a solid 30 years of being absolutely pish in Europe with the exception of two seasons one of which the 'success' in Europe was built on absymal anti-football and culminated in the most embarrassing episode in Scottish football for about 40 years.

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Another fine mess from Michael Gannon.

He even manages to get a mention of Rangers into a discussion piece about this season's European football.

Not won a single game in Europe comment aside it wasn't that bad

Found this pretty amusing actually

'There should be enough 
beamers in Perthshire to light the main stage at T in the Park.'

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Not won a single game in Europe comment aside it wasn't that bad

Found this pretty amusing actually

'There should be enough 
beamers in Perthshire to light the main stage at T in the Park.'

You mean it wasn't that bad apart from being complete shite aimed at simpletons throughout, yeah?

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He's just saying we shouldn't accept getting pumped out from teams from Armenia and the likes

Aye, and he'll be one of those who will sit on tv, radio or at his laptop and say "we don't know much about the Armenians" (emm, that's your job mate - to find out about these teams) before having a go at the Scottish side for going out to a side they know nothing about, from a league they know nothing about.

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Aye, and he'll be one of those who will sit on tv, radio or at his laptop and say "we don't know much about the Armenians" (emm, that's your job mate - to find out about these teams) before having a go at the Scottish side for going out to a side they know nothing about, from a league they know nothing about.

A standard tabloid journalist basically?

Didn't think it was a good article, but it just read like a bog standard article you'd see every day in the Sun/Record and the likes

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Never heard of him but that column is fucking atrocious.

First of all "So we’ve had four games in Europe already and not won a single one." What's more worthy of "beamers" Michael? Losing a European tie on away goals with half the first team missing or not getting a basic fact correct? You could also say we'd lost 1 out of 4.

"Scotland’s top flight is now 
23rd in Europe and plummeting. We can’t play qualifiers any 
earlier. The next step is joining the Gibraltar league." 23rd? Top half then? f**k sake.....

"Don’t hit us with this notion 
that we have found our level. 
Scotland is a wee 
country – but not that wee. Three Irish 
clubs managed to get through the other night."

3 out of 7 teams got through, a worse ratio than our 50%. And one of them got through on away goals against a team from Luxembourg. Glentoran got humped 7-1 by a Slovenia side and St. Partick's got well beaten by Skonto Riga.

Also suggesting that Rangers would fair any better in Europe is a complete red neck since they have a solid 30 years of being absolutely pish in Europe with the exception of two seasons one of which the 'success' in Europe was built on absymal anti-football and culminated in the most embarrassing episode in Scottish football for about 40 years.

I'd say a Scottish team absolutely bumming a Croatian one away is an absolutely fantastic result. The guy is a fucking moron.

He fails to mention the team we lost to the other night beat Lyon the year before last and also made it to the group stages of the EL last term. The teams the North and South Irish teams lost to, you'd need to fucking Google.

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According to today's online Record, we beat Livingston 2-1 on Saturday when in fact the score was 2-0. Would they have made that mistake if Celtic or Rangers had been involved?

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According to today's online Record, we beat Livingston 2-1 on Saturday when in fact the score was 2-0. Would they have made that mistake if Celtic or Rangers had been involved?

Tbf the game would have been live on BT Sport so unlikely they would make the same mistake.

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Never heard of him but that column is fucking atrocious.

First of all "So we’ve had four games in Europe already and not won a single one." What's more worthy of "beamers" Michael? Losing a European tie on away goals with half the first team missing or not getting a basic fact correct? You could also say we'd lost 1 out of 4.

"Scotland’s top flight is now 
23rd in Europe and plummeting. We can’t play qualifiers any 
earlier. The next step is joining the Gibraltar league." 23rd? Top half then? f**k sake.....

"Don’t hit us with this notion 
that we have found our level. 
Scotland is a wee 
country – but not that wee. Three Irish 
clubs managed to get through the other night."

3 out of 7 teams got through, a worse ratio than our 50%. And one of them got through on away goals against a team from Luxembourg. Glentoran got humped 7-1 by a Slovenia side and St. Partick's got well beaten by Skonto Riga.

Also suggesting that Rangers would fair any better in Europe is a complete red neck since they have a solid 30 years of being absolutely pish in Europe with the exception of two seasons one of which the 'success' in Europe was built on absymal anti-football and culminated in the most embarrassing episode in Scottish football for about 40 years.

There is really no point in reading these articles as a non-OF fan. It could just be condensed into a weekly article of

'Look at Scotlands shite wee diddy teams'

'Rangers and Celtic prop up scottish football'

'Any other cliche that bums up either Celtic or Rangers and shows complete disdain for the rest of the league'

and so on

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  • 2 weeks later...

BBC predictably had steven fletcher playing for motherwell today in the match report.

What wasn't so predictable was that they hadn't mixed him up with his namesake Wes but with pearson. Good start martin dowden!

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