kennie makevin

Meet the new Rangers, same as the old Rangers. Meet the Old Firm, same as the old Old Firm.

The term 'Old Firm' will die when we no longer have two secterian football clubs in Glasgow whose business model is predicated on carving up Scottish football for their own financial benefit. Sadly that's not happening anytime soon.

The real issue which sums up the corrupt ways of Scottish football is that we all know with certainty that had Rangers been playing at home against any Scottish team other than their sectarian Siamese twin they would not have had a penalty awarded against them or had a goal disallowed as happened yesterday. And of course the same applies to Celtic at Parkhead. Kick them both out of Scottish football and do it now , please.

What part would you miss most ? ? The foul abuse ? The undertow of tribal hatred ? The whole idea that you can't watch and enjoy a game of football if you're seated in the vicinity of someone who may want another team to win is the very definition of 'moronic' in my opinion.

Made it easier for Old Firm fans to smash their windows ?

Oh God aye, we don't want any of that poncy behaving like civilised human beings while sitting watching sport when we could be battering shite out of each other because his scarf's a different colour than mine..........And then we have people on these forums wondering in all seriousness why you can have a drink at the rugby but not the football ?

Sadly the game of football in Scotland will only win when these two vile clubs cease to exist

The Scottish top flight is not competitive..... indeed it scarcely qualifies as 'a competition' considering only one entity can ever win it. The idea that something/anything can 'be worse' than the tedious, predictable, repetitive, low quality product we have at the moment is a strange one.

Would be far more interesting if the league split after five games instead of with five games remaining. Otherwise it's a nonsense that says we're happy with crumbs from the Old Firm table and the fact that two clubs are vastly richer than the rest combined. Kick out the Old Firm, scrap the split and have two divisions playing each other twice.

I was quite impressed with San Diego when I went there, rather less so on hearing that.

Andy Murray obviously. Why is it even a question. ?

You clearly don't know the meaning of the word 'bizarre'. I didn't watch the Hungary 1953 team of Puskas etc but I'll bet my house on that team being better than the current Hungary . Do you also find that assertion 'bizarre'. ? I also didn't see the Airdrie team that won the Scottish Cup in 1924 but will state, like the bizarre fool I am, that they were a better team than the Airdrie of today.

It may make this team statistically more successful but it would not make them player for player a better team. No one would seriously make that claim, certainly compared to the 1928 team. Shankland, Dykes, Adams or Hughie Gallacher ? McTominey or Alex James ? Ryan Christie or Alan Morton ? Aye, right !!!

Indeed...insanely optimistic, cheerfully deluded, and if you think that wriggling out of the group (which we won't do anyway) would make this Scotland team better than the 1928 Wembley Wizards or the 67 or 77 Scotland teams then that's an opinion alright..

On the basis of the last few performances we are the weakest in the tournament, by a distance.

Or a stubborn manager who has a great streak which has sadly now come to an end ?

The time to try something different is not three games and three months away from the biggest occasion in Scottish international history since the '98 World Cup.

Brian McGinley, three boyhood Rangers fans and a stout yeoman of a linesman ?

Stop employing thick, semi-literate ex-professional footballers to do the work of journalists.

Founding, establishing and supporting a football club which is based on propagating and promoting the tribal division between 'religious creeds' in the name of tradition is a vile thing. They ARE both as bad as each other.

In the same way Christianity is a religion and not an ethnicity parhaps ?

The problem with Lennon as a manager in Scotland is that he's too associated with the Celtic/Green Brigade/Kerrydale St lunatic fringe. He seriously believes there is a conspiracy against Celtic and insists their fans are the 'best in the world'. Aberdeen would be better off picking the team by selection committee and letting the team coach itself than going anywhere near Neil Lennon. That said it would be a preferable appointment than John Hughes.

Help ! They need somebody. Help ! Could be anybody. Help !!!

Think the keeper in the first of those pics is Ronnie Simpson in his Newcastle Utd days.

Indeed.....! Exactly like Celtic. They didn't acquire the 'Old Firm' tag by accident. Without each other they would die.