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Even worse if the surviving passenger had set the aircraft on fire.

We're obviously going to have to agree to disagree on what constitutes a free-kick/penalty and whether it's dependent on which team it affects. You might want to ask yourself though whether you think Messrs Crocker & Walker would at least have made mention of the handball if it'd happened in United's box. I'll leave it at that.

You're only telling half the story by conveniently omitting the fact that the ball only hit Jack's hand because of his push on Fletcher, a push which would no doubt have been seen as a clear offence at the other end.

That all depends which penalty box it happened in. My point, as I'm sure you were aware, was that the clear handball wasn't even worthy of mention, far less debate, as far as Crocker & Walker were concerned. That is concerning.

The incident where Ryan Jack gave Fletcher a wee shove in the penalty area was described by the commentators as "not enough" for a penalty. Despite showing the incident two or three times, those commentators somehow failed to notice the ball hitting Jack's hand in the same incident. It's almost as if we should all accept that the normal rules don't apply to the current franchise playing out of Ibrox.

Think you need a Carey oot.

Crawford Allan of the SFA is the current incumbent who should determine what is poor refereeing and what is cheating. I've never known any Scottish match official cited for cheating though, and that's part of my point. Roy Orbison and Stevie Wonder could see that John Beaton bent over backwards to help the club he follow follows in the game I referenced, but nothing was done about it and nothing ever will be.

All that waffle typing without once addressing the fact that some match officials are not impartial, leading to a sport that is corrupt.

Not sure how it could make things any more unworkable than it already is. Far be it from me to stand up for the arse cheek from the east end of Glasgow but I remember watching a match in sheer disbelief as wee 'Fredo Morelos, Colombia's angriest man, kicked Broonie in the nuts (he was going for the ball I suppose) and later deliberately trampled over the back of a prostrate Celtic defender, plus another serious foul that escapes me at the moment. I can't remember for certainty which of the masonic brethren was refereeing, probably John Beaton, but he could barely bring himself to award a free kick, never mind the yellow or red card that was deserved. I'd long considered that refereeing errors and inconsistencies were purely down to ineptitude or pressure from a baying crowd, but I had my eyes opened during that match. The referee was cheating in plain view. Having neutral officials, even if necessary those of a slightly inferior quality, is infinitely more palatable than employing those who may be partial to being partial.

Conversely, you have younger people who wrongly think that every instance of contact equates to a foul. Often, players fall over when an opponent arrives in the same postcode, with little or no contact made, such as a tap on the back or shoulder, yet our inept officials fall for it time and time again. Football is a contact sport and while I understand that the modern day interpretation of the rules is designed to protect skilful players and encourage attacking, inventive play, it has the opposite effect, with players throwing themselves to the ground as if shot when somebody brushes past them. It is possible to eradicate the sort of leg-breaker of a tackle that was allowed 50 years ago without going too far in the opposite direction and over-sanitising the game by making it contact-free.

Personally, I'd be happy seeing the stadiums of both arse cheeks closed down for their fans' behaviour so it's nothing to do with Celtic not winning. Nice try though.

That is simply your subjective opinion, not an indisputable fact. Opinions are like arseholes - everybody's got one, and I fully support your right to hold the wrong opinion.

Sakala didn't plant his foot correctly because Starfelt's foot was in the place he wanted to plant it. Instead, he stood on Starfelt's foot. Simple as that really. Are you seriously trying to tell me that Starfelt should have chosen a different place to stand in order not to inconvenience Sakala, who had some kind of priority despite arriving second?

I'm in a small (but correct) minority with @kingjoey on this one. Sakala instigated the contact, not Starfelt. If Sakala had stepped onto the defender's knee instead, a metre off the ground, rather than stood on his foot, only for Starfelt's knee to slide away, are you seriously saying Starfelt should be penalised? Starfelt didn't cause the contact that resulted in Sakala hitting the deck; Sakala did. Blaming Starfelt is like blaming Rory McKenzie for headbutting Ethan Erhahon's elbow in another weekend game. Starfelt's schoolboy error was giving a well-known Ibrox-leaning official a clear and obvious opportunity to wrongly award his heroes a penalty.

A valid question. It also seems likely that the phrase 'bear arms' in the 2nd amendment was intended to restrict the use of guns to grizzlies, bears well known for their lack of manual dexterity and inability to pull a trigger. As if further proof was needed, when have you ever heard of a bear firing a gun in the entire history of David Attenborough?

More than a bog standard striker.

Apologies for biting. Posts removed.

FTFY.

I beg to differ.

Part of the problem is that the SFA and SPFL that we blame for everything are actually the clubs, including your's and mine. Every decision supposedly made 'for the good of Scottish football' isn't autocratically enforced by Ian Maxwell or Neil Doncaster, or even their respective boards, but in consultation with our clubs. Our clubs are willing to accept the current duopoly in perpetuity in return for crumbs off the table. The clearest evidence of that came when Rangers went into liquidation and died, leading the other clubs to shart their pants at the prospect of lost broadcasting and other commercial contracts. All our clubs, including Celtic, were complicit in the drafting of a five way agreement that was concocted to pretend that Rangers had only undergone a change of ownership, rather than dying exactly the same death of liquidation as Third Lanark, amongst others, as we all know they did. There is no obvious solution to the ongoing 37 year-old duopoly but I am slightly surprised that more clubs don't speculate to accumulate by purchasing world cup stars they can't really afford from far and wide, knowing that if the gamble doesn't pay off, only a meaningless, expendable, replaceable operating company will be sacrificed, not the ethereal, intangible, metaphysical, immortal football club.

Try sticking to the facts, rather than concocting agenda-driven fiction you desperately want to be true. Liquidator BDO and Lord Tyre valued the entire 2012 playing squad at less than £20m just last year. That is a matter of fact whether you like it or not, and regardless of which publications it appears in. Your personal valuation of at least £56m is just laughable and was probably arrived at via a conspiracy theory on Rangers Media or similar site, where nothing is ever Rangers' fault and the club's liquidation and death was conspired by Rangers-haters. Up until your last comment, I hadn't realised I was corresponding with a primary school-age minor, so I don't intend responding any further to your juvenile posts.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19629251.rangers-should-sold-ibrox-stadium-going-administration/ Let me see if I've got this right. I have just disproved your complete fabrication that "the squad was definitely worth that amount" (£56m), but you don't think I've got my figures correct, despite the £19.7m squad valuation forming part of a legal judgment by Lord Tyre last year when he looked into the administration process undertaken by Duff & Phelps. I didn't come up with the total debt figure of £168.8m. That was the amount reported by liquidator BDO as the total claims made against Rangers. I'm sure you're capable of typing 'Rangers,' 'BDO,' and '£168.8 million' into a search engine all by yourself, although you might want to include words such as 'deceased,' 'liquidated,' 'died' and 'croaked it' in order to maximise those search results.

The tax debt was "only" £56 million, around a third of the total debt. The total debt was estimated at £168.8 million. The entire 2012 squad was valued at less than £20m in a court judgment by Lord Tyre last year, contrary to your 'definitely worth 56 million' claim. As for a lack of integrity, have you heard of David Murray, Craig Whyte, Charles Green and Dave King?

Not very much, considering Charles Green thought he could purchase the entire playing squad, plus Ibrox and Murray Park for £5.5m. The sales of Steven Davis, Steven Whittaker, Steven Naismith, Allan McGregor, Kyle Lafferty, Sasa Papac, Lee McCulloch and the rest might've kept the Ibrox floodlights on for another ninety minutes, but nowhere near enough to address total debts of £168.8m, especially when prospective purchasers could offer to buy players for peanuts knowing Rangers' desperation to sell. Edit: Lord Tyre valued the entire playing squad at £19,704,883 last year when reviewing the performance of Duff & Phelps as administrators. Just a mere £150m or so shortfall then. Still lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the failure to preserve what you claim only to be a <cough> meaningless operating company.

No, but agreement has been reached between the liquidator and HMRC over the amount of tax debt (£56m) that was owed by the original Rangers Football Club before its death. Remember the fabricated stories invented by the blame-shifting bloggers and fans claiming that the true tax debt was only around £10m, a pittance that Rangers could've easily repaid, a fantasy repeated by an ever-willing media? The reality is that the tax debt was considerably higher than the £56m agreed upon, but HMRC made clear that further litigation would've proved costly and reduced the creditors' pot. Rangers' total estimated debt in 2012 was £168.8m. Who would willingly buy a club with such huge debts attached to it? Sheikh Mansour? Shake Maheid. Sevco has no connection to the now defunct club, except for the basket of distressed assets purchased from it. Hope that helps.