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Despite all the moral panic about the "riot". The number of Arrests in Manchester wouldn't have been unusual for an Old Firm Game. This can be interpreted in one of two ways. 1) Rangers fans have been painted in a bad light by an unsympathetic press 2) Old Firm Fans are radge b*****ds on a regular basis not just one off finals

His outbursts about the Old firm corrupting Scottish Football and the Scottish press being a bunch of monkeys now seem a bit tame.

If they're pissed off with the SFA and the FA won't have them have they considered writing to Irish Football Association 20 Windsor Ave, Belfast BT9 6EG, Northern Ireland Aside from the cultural aspects, playing in Ulster would give them a league where they could outspend everyone without having to fidde their taxes and regular access to the Champions league Qualifiers

I must have missed something here What have Tesco's actually done to upset those people* I had a quick look on Google but all I got was special offers on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers products and them sponsoring a Sunday Football Tournament In liverpool where one of the teams's called Kingsway Rangers. *formerly "The people"

Given the incompetent Rangers support's inability to harm Neil Lennon with their so called "viable devices" I don't think the Hampden three should be too bothered

Merci

As Rene Descartes once almost put it: "Je pens, donc je ne suis pas un supporter de Rangers"

Spends too much time in Paisley post IMO

More recently the Chick and Traynors of the world were calling for ten point penalties to be applied to Hearts for paying the wages when they said but too late to clear same day. We've now got Rangers paying wages at a few pence in the pound, although apparently on time.

To write off his entire work as bullshit would be unfair The key thing to remember about Neitzche is that he lost his virginity to a whore at University and in the process caught syphylis which eventually sent him mad and killed him. Which explains a lot of the more mysoginist, dark and demented bits of his work As an ancient Oriental philospher* once said "Genius is twin brother of Madness, sometimes one mistaken for other" Neitzche started off as one and finished as the other. He may have been both for a while. People who quote him as an authority without stopping to think whether he may have had his pants on his head at the time still deserve our mistrust. * Charlie Chan the Chinese Detective "Charlie Chan at the Opera" 20th Century Fox, 1936

It's all part of the common fallacy that "Football is big business these days" In general clubs are commercially dwarfed by their sponsors. Saint Mirren are sponored by a company "Capital Shopping Centres" that's worth about 80 times as much as Celtic.

Most of them should have had at least a rough Plan for their own team not being in the SPL never mind being in an SPL shorn of Rangers.

Some Key Facts and Figures about Sky TV Total customers: 10,471,000 TV customers: 10,253,000 Sky + HD customers: 4,063,000 Multiroom customers: 2,350,000 Sky Broadband customers: 3,651,000 Sky Talk customers: 3,407,000 Adjusted revenue: £6,597,000,000 Investment in programming: £2,188,000,000 Adjusted operating profit 1 : £1,073,000,000 http://corporate.sky.com/about_sky/key_facts_and_figures To put that into perspective the whole SPL TV deal costs 0.24% of Sky's total revenue. Their subscriber base is bigger than Scotland and Northern Ireland put together. That's how important SPL led subscriptions are to sky's business. Rangers fans are basically chucking pebbles at a Rhinocerous. If they do it very, very well then their target might actually notice that somebody is trying to piss them off but that's about it.

Victoria Wine along with Haddows, Wine Rack, Peter Dominic etc were owned by "The Threshers Group" which went into administrations in 2009

He actually said precisely that in the post match interview on Saturday Which I thought was a bit strange as they don't know what they're going to get yet.

Do you think he meant "complicit" as opposed to "compliant"

My Uncle hasn't been to Easter Road since the 1970s and prefers Rugby Could you sort him out with a ticket?

You don't understand how the parties can be fighting and yet courting at the same time You sir are clearly lucky enough to have never sat through a screwball Romantic Comedy.

After reporting in the previous accounts that there was an ongoing HMRC investigation. Hearts got hit with a £1m bill last year, It triggered a few late salary runs, You may have read about them. It appears that Hearts may have been briefly paddling in the same pool that Rangers were swimming in for a decade.

According to Transfer Markt the Contract Expiry dates are as follows Contracts which Expire 2012 Scott Gallacher, Goalkeeper(TW), 22 Years Kyle Bartley, Defence(IV), 20 Years Sasa Papac, Defence(LV), 32 Years Gordon Dick, Midfield(ZM), 19 Years Andrew Mitchell, Midfield(ZM), 19 Years Sone Aluko, Midfield(RM), 23 Years Salim Kerkar, Midfield(LM), 24 Years David Healy, Striker(MS), 32 Years Andy Little, Striker(MS), 22 Years Contracts which Expire 2013 Neil Alexander, Goalkeeper(TW), 33 Years Kirk Broadfoot, Defence(RV), 27 Years Lee McCulloch, Midfield(DM), 33 Years Maurice Edu, Midfield(ZM), 25 Years Kyle Lafferty, Striker(LA), 24 Years Kane Hemmings, Striker(MS), 20 Years Contracts which Expire 2014 Dorin Goian, Defence(IV), 31 Years Carlos Bocanegra, Defence(IV), 32 Years Matt McKay, Midfield(ZM), 29 Years Alejandro Bedoya, Midfield(OM), 24 Years Contracts which Expire 2015 Ross Perry, Defence(IV), 22 Years Jamie Ness, Midfield(ZM), 21 Years Steven Naismith, Striker(RA), 25 Years Contracts which Expire 2016 Lee Wallace, Defence(LV), 24 Years Steven Whittaker, Defence(RV), 27 Years Steven Davis, Midfield(ZM) , 27 Years Contract that Expire 2017 Allan McGregor, Goalkeeper(TW), 30 Years If people can repost this crossing off the players as they leave then that would probable help us all keep track

Depends whether they've got any ambition left to make an impact in Europe. Their rhetoric has been full of hyperbole along the lines of "More than a club" & Global Support". If they really want hooped shirts on racks next to Chelsea and Real Madrid ones in downtown Saigon or Dallas then they're going to have to keep spending the big money required to make them competitive against big European clubs Otherwise They currently outgun the oppositions Wage bills by about 5 to 1. If they' put their global ambitions aside the celtic board can easily afford to give a lot more of supporters money to shareholders and less to players and their agents with only a small increase risk of not winning the league. It may be more effective to field a young, relatively cheap team playing in front of a busy Parkhead than a highly paid team in front of a packed Parkhead.

I'd say that it's not a question of deferring responsibility to McCoist. McCoist is the person to whom the responsibility falls to make the detailed choice of which players to lose and which to retain. McCoist may wish to trim the attacking players more deeply than the Defensive Players or vice versa. He may have sufficient faith in whoever their reserve goalie is to put McGregor near the top of the list of luxuries to be foregone. Overall he'll probably have a choice between a significantly weakened first Eleven with no cover or a massively weakened first eleven with some cover. All these choices are football choices and they should really fall to McCoist. The Administrators should just decide how much to cut, McCoist should decide how to do it. As A hearts supporter I'm more familiar than most with footballing decisions being trumped by business considerations and it' a bit annoying but if McCoist doesn't act soon then the administrators will have to step in and impose the decision on him by counting down the payroll in salary order until they've sacked £1m worth regardless of what kind of tactical mess that puts him in

There's a big difference between the cases. Celtic Football Club, for all it's flaws hasn't been lecturing people on sexual morality for a 958 years. If there's one good thing that's come out of the systematic child rape carried out within the Catholic Church it's the fact that less and less people take seriously it's public pronouncements on what consenting adults should be allowed to do with each other. The supposed moral authority of men like Keith O'Brien is now in the gutter when he makes pronouncements like this weekend's one. To revel in that loss of authourity would be wrong given how it came about but none the less that loss is surely something to be welcomed (except by bigots).

The obvious thing to do is to for the SPL to charge Rangers newco an entry feee to get back in. I'd suggest £5.5m/year over the next 8 years which distributed equall would give each team an extra half million pound of income.

Or suggests that your grandfather's numeracy was sufficiently limited to prevent him from being able to count that high.