VincentGuerin Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 1 hour ago, TheScarf said: Someone literally gets paid to type that on a website. The mind boggles. When I read stuff like that I always wonder about the writer's dreams when starting out. A war correspondent? A Pulitzer, maybe? The New York Times? Or maybe a column in World Soccer and a raft of fitba books published? But, no. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airdrie76 Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 That's like Hearts finishing 3rd in the Premiership and saying we've achieved our goal. Would you then say 'WHAT!!?? YOU DIDN'T SET OUT TO FINISH FIRST??' Of course they're trying to win. But if we beat the Latvians twice, we'll have done what was expected, got some coefficient points, and boosted our finances a bit. I don't think it's a given that we'll win tomorrow night, but if we do, then that's fair enough.Well, you get something for finishing 3rd in the league so not quite the same. I don’t disagree with you saying you’ll have done what’s expected or what would be realistically expected as a minimum, just don’t see that as being the same as ‘set out to do’’. Anyway, not important. Here’s hoping hearts win in any case. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingermunkie Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 1 hour ago, TheScarf said: Someone literally gets paid to type that on a website. The mind boggles. Even more ridiculously two people have been paid to write that! First at the sun and then the BBC! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 15 hours ago, VincentGuerin said: That's like Hearts finishing 3rd in the Premiership and saying we've achieved our goal. Would you then say 'WHAT!!?? YOU DIDN'T SET OUT TO FINISH FIRST??' Of course they're trying to win. But if we beat the Latvians twice, we'll have done what was expected, got some coefficient points, and boosted our finances a bit. I don't think it's a given that we'll win tomorrow night, but if we do, then that's fair enough. Wait until next season when the reserves have been gubbed a few more times by Gala and Bo'ness etc. With that kind of experience you'll tear Europe a new arsehole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Weird how on the BBC updates on the Hearts European game, Craig Levein is listed as a "former Dundee United manager". It's a shame he never got higher, or has any connection to the home side. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 The BBC going with 7 (yes 7) headlines on their Scottish football page about The Rangers. 6 stories about how shite they are and 1 about a statue to Walter Smith. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJF Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 1 hour ago, johnnydun said: 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 2 hours ago, johnnydun said: The BBC going with 7 (yes 7) headlines on their Scottish football page about The Rangers. 6 stories about how shite they are and 1 about a statue to Walter Smith. For some reason I read this in a Chick Young voice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Well, this is quite something. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63393498 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Stiles Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 14 hours ago, johnnydun said: The BBC going with 7 (yes 7) headlines on their Scottish football page about The Rangers. 6 stories about how shite they are and 1 about a statue to Walter Smith. 7? Wonder why they've cut back. Also two big Championship games on tonight so naturally it's the blue bigot puff piece that's been there all day that's still the headline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 BBC live text. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Souness knows how to fix Scottish football I see Rangers plan to build a statue of my dear departed friend Walter Smith outside Ibrox. I cannot think of anything better and I know Ethel, his boys and the wider family will be thrilled. What he did for the football club - winning ten league titles and eleven domestic cups - was as great as any of the previous managers you want to name and that includes the great Bill Struth. On that topic, it's been a dire Champions League campaign for the two Glasgow clubs who so far have mustered just four goals and two points between them from ten games. It's such a disappointment for Scottish football but people ask me why they are uncompetitive and I will tell you. I live in Bournemouth where the football club has an 11,000-seat stadium but manages to play in the Premier League on the back of annual TV income upwards of £90m. Celtic and Rangers are huge clubs with massive fanbases and capacities in excess of 50,000 but their TV money is a tiny fraction of that, only about £2m or £3m a year. So there is your answer. If the two Glasgow clubs agreed to build a 100,000 stadium to share and they joined our Premier League they would soon be progressive top half clubs. I would have them down here in a heartbeat. The rest of Scottish football would not collapse. It would simply have to find its own level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: Souness knows how to fix Scottish football Genius. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squonk Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Once again a moron with past connections waxes lyrical about the good things that would happen to Rantic if they moved to England, without addressing the patently obvious problem that English clubs neither want nor need them. English clubs allowing them access, even to the lower tiers, would be like turkeys voting for Christmas, and that's purely from a financial viewpoint, before you even begin to look at sectarian bigotry and other crowd behaviour issues. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 35 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: Souness knows how to fix Scottish football “Our Premier League” 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Souness is a moron. He defeats his own argument with his own argument. That Bournemouth, a club with a stadium with a smaller capacity than East End Park, are playing in the English top league, and one of the top leagues in the world, shows that stadium capacity and fan base are absolutely no guarantee of anything. There are clubs across the English leagues with bigger fanbases and stadiums than some of the clubs in the EPL who are nowhere near the top flight. Being a traditional 'big club' means absolutely nothing in Englang any longer, and hasn't done for years. Nottingham Forest are a prime example, and they may get fucked right back out of a league they've spent decades aspiring to. English football don't need or care about Celtic and Sevco. Should those clubs gain entry at some level, they'd probably rise to Championship level with few problems (although I could see one of them spend at least a further season in League 1) but then would struggle to get to the EPL. Wouldn't put it past them to, eventually, get up, but they'd be absolute fodder and would most likely be pumped back down. Instead of some big ground (and many EPL clubs either have bigger grounds than Celtic and Sevco or will soon have bigger grounds), what Celtic/Sevco need to compete in England is massive investment of cash from some scumbag oil regime like Dubai/UAE/Saudi Arabia/USA/etc. You know as well that should such investment ever happen the Celtic fans who pretend to be socialist will spread their cheeks for it. Sevco fans don't pretend to be socialist so won't need to supplicate themselves in such a manner as they'll be too busy doing so for royalty/the military/the Tories/Northern Ireland/the KKK/etc. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Don't know what the fuss is about here. It's an absolutely fantastic idea and should definitely happen. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 13 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Don't know what the fuss is about here. It's an absolutely fantastic idea and should definitely happen. Especially if they build the shared stadium somewhere else 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Manhattan Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 21 hours ago, The Master said: BBC live text. Ooft, refer that to VAR! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Manhattan Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 44 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: Especially if they build the shared stadium somewhere else Somewhere people give a f**k. Belfast, maybe? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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