http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20635999
should have gone to specsavers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/20658607
should have gone to specsavers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/20658607
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My brother and his mate are season ticket holders and were at the game yesterday. They have got to know the stewards pretty well this season and they now let him in with his cannon 500 (I think) fancy camera. Here are a few shots. He said it was a great day.
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CELTIC FANS ATTACK STOCK EXCHANGE IN BID TO WRECK RANGERS SHARE ISSUE
FRIGHTENED Celtic fans, who are already running scared of the resurgent Rangers, have been boasting that they have launched a series of desperate attacks on the London Stock Exchange.
I can make this startling revelation today thanks to an old journalist friend who used to work on the financial pages of a highly respected daily newspaper and who still has contacts and friends in the City of London.
These attacks on the Stock Exchange by deranged Celtic supporters from the outer reaches of bigoted cyberspace where love for the IRA lurks, are designed to try and instil fear inside the City of London and to halt, or at least damage, the so successful Rangers flotation.
The complaints and attacks have all – surprise-surprise – been delivered anonymously. A typical Celtic zealot tactic.
And the language of the attacks, according to my old friend’s City source, suggests they may all have been drafted by the same person and that person would appear to have some legal and/or financial training.
Which could narrow the field to the usual suspects. The person behind the now disgraced and disappeared Rangers Tax Case blog? Or the person behind the HMRC leak, which is being probed by police in a criminal investigation? Unless they are one and the same. Or a lawyer, even a shamed one who has been disciplined by the Law Society of Scotland?
The flood of petty complaints, again according to my friend’s Square Mile source, are couched in quasi legal language, but are so squalid, so petty, so infantile and so obviously deranged and bigoted that they have been the cause of much derisive hooting inside the Stock Exchange.
And one or two of the Bluenoses who work there have been able to explain what’s happening and inform their English colleagues just what sort of people are behind this campaign of hateful attacks....those who support Celtic.
Which is just another step in exposing a section of bigots in the Celtic family and the growing Celtic ethos which spawns them, as just what they are, as they become increasingly exposed on a world stage which is becoming horrified at their evil antics.
One such exposure came via a piece of fine journalism from chief sports writer Hugh McDonald in the Herald. Celtic manager Neil Lennon appeared to hedge his bets while discussing Celtic player, Anthony Stokes’ public links to the IRA, seeming to stop short of utterly condemning them, preferring to say no more than he condemned them because of the damage such public links with the IRA could do to Celtic.
Perhaps Hugh McDonald was not satisfied with Neil Lennon’s seemingly lukewarm condemnation of Celtic’s Anthony Stokes’ public links with the IRA, for he went on to ask what Celtic supporters thought. And the man he turned to for a comment was the well known bigot who wants to see Protestants drowned, Joe O’Rourke, the Secretary of the Official Celtic Supporters Association and a close friend of Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell.
O’Rourke, however, waffled and completely refused to criticise Anthony Stokes at all for being a supporter of the IRA. Hardly surprising.
No doubt Joe O’Rourke is one of the many bigots who back the attack on the London Stock Exchange by deranged Celtic supporters. But we at least know he was not the man penning the complaints. For those complaints, while petty and bigoted, were at least semi literate.
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AND.....
TIME is running out for Rangers supporters to write themselves into the pages of the club’s illustrious history....for the next 140 years and beyond.
For this is the chance for Rangers fans to become The New Gallant Pioneers and to own a slice of the club they love, so that, like those original Gallant Pioneers from bygone days of yore, they can help build a bigger, better and stronger Rangers.
And all any fan has to do is buy shares. To buy into the dream Charles Green, Imran Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge are putting in 18-hour days to make come true. Trust me, I have never known three guys who work harder than the new Rangers regime
It would be a shame if supporters shunned this opportunity, unlike those who supported Celtic in 1994 when they waded in and poured money into Fergus McCann’s scheme to rebuild Celtic.
The Gallant Pioneers, the story of the humble beginnings of Rangers and how those valiant Victorian stalwarts battled against all odds to achieve their goal, is a stirring, romantic tale to fire the heart and imagination of all those who love Rangers, their history and their tradition and who want a future at least as glorious as the 140-years of history enshrined inside Ibrox Stadium.
However, with the right sort of response in the next few days from those who sing that they will follow-follow on, a new, even more stirring story, and even more romantic tale can begin to take its place on the pages of history when the story of this extraordinary epoch is written. It will be the starry-eyed romantic story of Rangers and the New Gallant Pioneers.
It is a unique opportunity which Charles Green, Imran Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge are holding out and offering to Rangers supporters.
Not because they need their money, but because they want the supporters who follow Rangers to have a stake in the club, because they want those fans to have a real and meaningful role to play in how Rangers grow to glory again.
In fact, if it was just money the new Rangers regime wanted then there are, as Charles Green made clear on Scotland Tonight in his barnstorming Tuesday night performance, plenty more institutional investors – other than the big guns who have already bought into the dream - out there who will be happy to cough up their cash.
No, what Charles Green wants, what Imran Ahmad wants, what Brian Stockbridge wants and what every Rangers supporter must surely want, is a 21st Century battalion of New Gallant Pioneers to march and match the mighty men who performed such glorious deeds in those bygone days or yore.
CELTIC FANS ATTACK STOCK EXCHANGE IN BID TO WRECK RANGERS SHARE ISSUE
FRIGHTENED Celtic fans, who are already running scared of the resurgent Rangers, have been boasting that they have launched a series of desperate attacks on the London Stock Exchange.
I can make this startling revelation today thanks to an old journalist friend who used to work on the financial pages of a highly respected daily newspaper and who still has contacts and friends in the City of London.
These attacks on the Stock Exchange by deranged Celtic supporters from the outer reaches of bigoted cyberspace where love for the IRA lurks, are designed to try and instil fear inside the City of London and to halt, or at least damage, the so successful Rangers flotation.
The complaints and attacks have all – surprise-surprise – been delivered anonymously. A typical Celtic zealot tactic.
And the language of the attacks, according to my old friend’s City source, suggests they may all have been drafted by the same person and that person would appear to have some legal and/or financial training.
Which could narrow the field to the usual suspects. The person behind the now disgraced and disappeared Rangers Tax Case blog? Or the person behind the HMRC leak, which is being probed by police in a criminal investigation? Unless they are one and the same. Or a lawyer, even a shamed one who has been disciplined by the Law Society of Scotland?
The flood of petty complaints, again according to my friend’s Square Mile source, are couched in quasi legal language, but are so squalid, so petty, so infantile and so obviously deranged and bigoted that they have been the cause of much derisive hooting inside the Stock Exchange.
And one or two of the Bluenoses who work there have been able to explain what’s happening and inform their English colleagues just what sort of people are behind this campaign of hateful attacks....those who support Celtic.
Which is just another step in exposing a section of bigots in the Celtic family and the growing Celtic ethos which spawns them, as just what they are, as they become increasingly exposed on a world stage which is becoming horrified at their evil antics.
One such exposure came via a piece of fine journalism from chief sports writer Hugh McDonald in the Herald. Celtic manager Neil Lennon appeared to hedge his bets while discussing Celtic player, Anthony Stokes’ public links to the IRA, seeming to stop short of utterly condemning them, preferring to say no more than he condemned them because of the damage such public links with the IRA could do to Celtic.
Perhaps Hugh McDonald was not satisfied with Neil Lennon’s seemingly lukewarm condemnation of Celtic’s Anthony Stokes’ public links with the IRA, for he went on to ask what Celtic supporters thought. And the man he turned to for a comment was the well known bigot who wants to see Protestants drowned, Joe O’Rourke, the Secretary of the Official Celtic Supporters Association and a close friend of Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell.
O’Rourke, however, waffled and completely refused to criticise Anthony Stokes at all for being a supporter of the IRA. Hardly surprising.
No doubt Joe O’Rourke is one of the many bigots who back the attack on the London Stock Exchange by deranged Celtic supporters. But we at least know he was not the man penning the complaints. For those complaints, while petty and bigoted, were at least semi literate.
.....
AND.....
TIME is running out for Rangers supporters to write themselves into the pages of the club’s illustrious history....for the next 140 years and beyond.
For this is the chance for Rangers fans to become The New Gallant Pioneers and to own a slice of the club they love, so that, like those original Gallant Pioneers from bygone days of yore, they can help build a bigger, better and stronger Rangers.
And all any fan has to do is buy shares. To buy into the dream Charles Green, Imran Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge are putting in 18-hour days to make come true. Trust me, I have never known three guys who work harder than the new Rangers regime
It would be a shame if supporters shunned this opportunity, unlike those who supported Celtic in 1994 when they waded in and poured money into Fergus McCann’s scheme to rebuild Celtic.
The Gallant Pioneers, the story of the humble beginnings of Rangers and how those valiant Victorian stalwarts battled against all odds to achieve their goal, is a stirring, romantic tale to fire the heart and imagination of all those who love Rangers, their history and their tradition and who want a future at least as glorious as the 140-years of history enshrined inside Ibrox Stadium.
However, with the right sort of response in the next few days from those who sing that they will follow-follow on, a new, even more stirring story, and even more romantic tale can begin to take its place on the pages of history when the story of this extraordinary epoch is written. It will be the starry-eyed romantic story of Rangers and the New Gallant Pioneers.
It is a unique opportunity which Charles Green, Imran Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge are holding out and offering to Rangers supporters.
Not because they need their money, but because they want the supporters who follow Rangers to have a stake in the club, because they want those fans to have a real and meaningful role to play in how Rangers grow to glory again.
In fact, if it was just money the new Rangers regime wanted then there are, as Charles Green made clear on Scotland Tonight in his barnstorming Tuesday night performance, plenty more institutional investors – other than the big guns who have already bought into the dream - out there who will be happy to cough up their cash.
No, what Charles Green wants, what Imran Ahmad wants, what Brian Stockbridge wants and what every Rangers supporter must surely want, is a 21st Century battalion of New Gallant Pioneers to march and match the mighty men who performed such glorious deeds in those bygone days or yore.
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Elgin City 2 Rangers 6
RANGERS have increased their lead at the top of the Third Division to nine points after a terrific win over second placed Elgin City at Borough Briggs.
Goals from Lee McCulloch(2), Andy Little (2), Lewis Macleod and Kyle Hutton gave the Light Blues a crucial 6-2 victory and both teams played their part in making a thrilling contest for fans to enjoy.
Despite the cold conditions and swirling wind the first half produced five goals with the scoreline sitting at 3-2 as the players walked up the tunnel.
The second half, however, was a more one-sided affair with the Light Blues shifting through the gears and showing the quality which will surely now take them to the title.
Elgin, who had won five of their seven home fixtures going into this afternoon’s clash, were full of confidence in the opening 45 minutes but the visitors had more firepower in the last third with Little and McCulloch, in particular, a constant threat.
Indeed, Rangers flew out of the traps at the start of this top of the table clash, clearly intent on increasing the gap between themselves and the Black and Whites.
David Templeton, Macleod, McCulloch and Hutton all saw plenty of the ball in the opening five minutes before Little opened the scoring with a terrific finish.
Templeton played him in and the Ulsterman showed great composure to round keeper John Gibson before rolling the ball into the net.
It was no more than the Light Blues deserved following their positive early play and within a couple of minutes a poor challenge by Elgin’s Mark Nicolson on Templeton in the centre circle meant referee Brian Colvin had to have a word in the midfielder’s ear.
From there Elgin started to enjoy a bit more possession and on 18 minutes Ross Jack’s side replied in stunning style.
Number 11 Daniel Moore was picked out 20 yards out and his left foot drive took a slight nick off a defender’s foot before it flew across Alexander and nestled inside his far post.
It was just what the home side needed and having got back into the game they started to put the Gers backline under sustained pressure for the first time.
Rangers, however, always looked dangerous going forward and on 24 minutes they were back in front.
Templeton jinked his way into the box from the left and his low cross found Little who hammered the ball into the empty net from close range.
It was another good goal from Rangers’ point of view but Ross Jack must have been frustrated at the ease in which Templeton was able to pick out his teammate.
Before the half hour mark the hard tackling continued albeit Sean Crighton was the first player to be booked for a late foul on McCulloch.
The ref, however, only had his pencil away for a couple of minutes before Chris Hegarty was also shown a yellow card after he halted an overlapping run from Elgin skipper David Niven.
This gave the home side another chance to test Alexander from 25 yards and Nicolson stepped up to the plate, curling a beautiful free kick over the wall and beating the Gers keeper at his near post.
It was proving to be an epic tussle and with 34 minutes on the clock City could have taken the lead when the ball dropped to centre back Brian Cameron who sclaffed his left foot shot from 18 yards straight at Alexander.
On 40 minutes, however, Rangers were back in front. Hutton played in Little down the right and his cut back cross found McCulloch with his back to goal.
He swiftly turned his marker before blasting a high, powerful shot which hit the underside of the bar before bouncing over the line.
McCoist made his first change to his team for the start of the second period with centre half Perry replacing Argyriou which meant Hegarty filled in a right back.
Chances kept coming for both sides though and the sixth goal of the game arrived on the hour mark.
Templeton found McCulloch who was given space and time to turn and his low shot across Gibson had the power and accuracy to find the bottom corner of the net.
It was another moment of quality from the skipper who continues to impress week in, week out.
Rangers were now firing on all cylinders and Macleod made it 5-2 with a terrific drive from 20 yards.
With 22 minutes remaining Templeton, who was holding his hamstring, was replaced by Crawford and almost immediately the youngster brought out a good save from Gibson after excellent wing play from McKay.
McKay then sent in a teasing right foot cross and McCulloch guided his header a foot wide of the keeper’s near post.
On 82 minutes Hutton made it 6-2 when he fired a tremendous shot past Gibson but, remarkably, the drama was not over yet.
Hutton was guilty of a late tackle on Stuart Leslie in the box and the ref immediately pointed to the spot.
Moore stepped up but Alexander was there to make his second spot kick save in consecutive games.
The result means there is now real daylight between Rangers and the rest of the teams in the fourth tier and with big games coming up against Clyde on Boxing Day, Queen’s Park, Annan and Elgin again at Ibrox on January 5 there will be further chances to extend this lead.
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Merry Christmas fellow bears
CHARLES GREEN has the following Christmas message for the club's fans: lol
A Christmas Message
CHARLES GREEN has the following Christmas message for the club's fans: lol
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Queen's Park 0 Rangers 1
The clash at the national stadium had looked set to end goalless before the injury-time strike sealed a 10th win in a row for Rangers.
Saturday's match - in front of a crowd of 30,117 - was the first Hampden clash between the sides since November 1957, when Rangers came out on top as 4-2 winners.
Ally McCoist was forced to make two changes from the side which defeated Clyde on Boxing Day. Andy Little was sidelined through injury, while Lewis Macleod revealed on Twitter before kick-off that he was ill with a virus, meaning he was absent for the first time this season.
Queen's Park had given Rangers a tough match at Ibrox in October and they looked well up for this encounter, carving out a couple of chances early on. A free-kick 20 yards out provided an opportunity to put the visitors under pressure but Michael Keenan was wasteful with an effort that was well off-target.
David Anderson came closer when he tried his luck with a shot from just outside the box which fizzed across goal and just wide of the upright.
The best chance so far fell to Rangers when a lovely cross from the left from Barrie McKay set up David Templeton for a shot that flashed inches over the crossbar. Crawford was not too far away when he met a Black cross 10 yards out and bulleted a header just over, as the first half ended goalless.
Rangers continued to push for the opener after the restart and a lofted effort from Lee McCulloch landed on the roof of the net, with Neil Parry untroubled in goal.
The goalkeeper was then called into action to make an impressive save to deny McKay, who unleashed a powerful drive after a one-two with McCulloch.
Queen's Park were dealt a blow when they were reduced to 10 men when James Brough picked up a second caution for a foul on Templeton after 56 minutes.
Parry reacted quickly again to snuff out another Rangers threat, this time racing off his line to block from Lee Wallace, who had been teed up by Templeton.
Aird had replaced Black and Francisco Sandaza was thrown into the action for Kyle Hutton with 20 minutes to go, with Rangers struggling to break down a stubborn Spiders side. The Spanish striker was clearly aiming to make an immediate impact but his finishing let him down as he rifled into the side-netting.
The home side could have snatched the points when Aidan Connolly released Lawrence Shankland in plenty of space but his shot lacked power and was easily smothered by Neil Alexander.
Shankland had the chance to make amends with a free-kick that escaped the grasp of the Rangers goalkeeper but swerved past the far post. Sandaza again rippled the side-netting for Rangers, before Aird grabbed the winner in injury time with a shot from just outside the area that squeezed past several bodies in the box and nestled in the bottom corner.
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Remember Sporting Integrity?
Written by James Traynor
THE shape of things to come, three divisions of 12-12-18, has been agreed in principle.
This abomination will now be pulled and stretched by selected members of the SPL and SFL in a desperate attempt to make it more presentable.
Good luck with that.
It would be easier trying to iron out the lines on the face of the old broad, Madge, in Benidorm.
12-12-18. It’s ridiculous, especially when you remember the two 12s will fragment into three eights.
Yet this time supporters will just have to buy into it. Whatever happened to that new and bold notion that fans were all important?
It isn’t that long ago clubs, particularly those in the top flight, were solemnly insisting that ignoring the views of fans would be akin to financial suicide.
Remember? It was when the game was wrestling with the problem of what to do with Rangers.
All the clubs were squealing that the wishes of fans had to be granted. If you swallowed any of that bilge you probably also believed in sporting integrity.
Of course it was all nonsense. Sporting Integrity was a cloak of convenience, albeit a rather thin, practically transparent one, behind which club leaders huddled together to come up with sanctions.
Rangers had to be punished, they deserved to be punished but it seemed as if additional penalties were being randomly introduced depending on who was in which meeting.
Many Rangers fans like to think the frenzy to cause the club as much additional pain as possible was driven by one club but that wasn’t strictly the case. Many fans of many clubs waded in but this is not to say Celtic fans or their club didn’t attempt to influence the outcome of debates on Rangers and possible sanctions.
Of course they did. And they are still at it on social media sites and on blogs clattered out by individuals who are no better than semi-literate.
The sheer hypocrisy of what is happening within Hampden’s corridors of power right now will be lost on them but let’s not pretend sporting integrity or the wishes of supporters really are important to all those clubs pushing for this change.
If they were listening to fans they wouldn’t be sticking with a top division of 12 , and if there was any integrity there would be no rush to bring in changes for the start of next season.
If, as seems likely, the structure is altered for 2013-14 supporters won’t get what they’ve already paid for, especially those following teams striving for promotion. Actually this entire season will be rendered meaningless.
Sporting integrity won’t merely be compromised, it’ll be crushed but this is what happens when desperation slips in and throttles reason.
This belief won’t sit well with the few who are more or less running the SPL and influencing thinking within that desperate organisation but they can’t complain. After all, they’ve dismissed Rangers’ views completely.
This club, the biggest one in the country, were not invited to take part in talks which will shape the game’s future.
We are then entitled to conclude that this club are not important, which is strange indeed when so many fans of other clubs continue to be obsessed by Rangers, who are simply getting on with their own affairs asking no favour from anyone.
We do, however, expect commonsense to be applied, along with fair play.
Look, Rangers will return to the top flight, which will of course have to be rebranded. Rangers will take a seat at the head of the table where, despite the latest insult of being shut out of reconstruction talks, we will act with the good of Scottish football in mind.
We’ll work through the divisions and we will return stronger and better than ever before.
This club accepted their sanctions and moved on but too many others have been unable to do the same. They continue their assaults and while the deranged, who are using social media sites as conduits for their twisted agendas, should be ignored there are more than a few in the mainstream still maligning the club at every opportunity.
In a BBC radio debate last Saturday night one pundit, in a matter-of-fact manner, said Charles Green speaks with ‘forked tongue.’ No attempt to explain or justify the statement, just as no explanation was offered when another radio voice claimed there was a dishonesty about Walter Smith when he went public with a late bid for the club.
Word of advice gentlemen. From now on be very careful when talking or writing about this club.
To paraphrase something said about another club, Rangers will not be treated less than others. And although there is no desire to pick fights, be assured that no one will attack Rangers with impunity.
Better, however, to quote Bill Struth: ‘Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. You do that, you will emerge stronger than before.’
Tolerance and sanity. That’s what Rangers will demonstrate and maintain, especially when back at the summit.
After all, someone has to. 12-12-18. Dear God.
RANGERS are the subject of media reports and speculation which are at best misleading and at worst malicious.
In an ideal world, for instance, one in which journalism wasn’t at such a damning low it has to be investigated by the highest authorities with culprits facing jail sentences, there would be no need for this Club to respond.
However, because it has become clear Rangers cannot rely on basic honesty, decency or integrity from enough of the country’s media outlets we must speak for ourselves. We have a duty to our supporters to put the record straight.
Rangers have been disputing a payment to a foreign company, Orlit, although it should be stressed we have never said there is no bill to be met.
What we have said and what we are telling our supporters is that not all of the invoices submitted with regard to this bill are legitimate.
Clearly there has been a lack of understanding within the media about this when all we have done is refuse to be forced into paying sums we do not owe. It is as simple as that.
Who on earth would pay out when faced with a spurious request for money?
No matter what anyone else says, Rangers have agreed a figure to settle this issue and it is a figure which, as we have already tried to explain, is significantly less than the initial demand.
Only the wording, which would put this matter to rest once and for all, has still to be signed off.
And despite what some over-excited but desperately ill-informed bloggers claim, there is no threat of this Club being closed. That is downright malicious and ludicrous.
But let’s make one thing clear: If Orlit wish to instruct their lawyers to go to court then we will defend our position vigorously.
We are absolutely convinced we’d win but we did think it would be better to avoid giving our many detractors another bar with which to beat us over the head.
That’s why we made an offer to settle but we now find we are still being harassed.
The thought process seems to be that if we have £22m from the recent IPO we should just pay up. Bizarre. Why should we?
Of course we can pay the amount demanded – it is, as we’ve already stated, a small amount - but it is ridiculous to hand over more than is due.
The money belongs to Rangers and we will not give it out to anyone who comes along with invented invoices.
That would be reckless in the extreme and suggest that nothing has been understood from the past when Rangers were in effect mugged by money grabbers.
We are here to make sure that does not happen again. We do pay our bills on time and we have always been prepared to pay this one.
There are many people and journalists who will choose to disbelieve this truth but that is up to them.
They will continue to attack Rangers no matter what we say but this statement is not for them.
It is for our supporters. They deserve to know and understand the exact and precise state of play,
Rangers will not be closed. This Club will never run up crippling debts and we will not pay over-inflated salaries to players.
However, we will have a sensible pay structure which won’t threaten the club’s existence. That is what we believe the fans want.
Having said that, Rangers are rising and we will return to the top flight where we will be competitive again.
We are still very much at the beginning of a long road back and although there will be potholes to be negotiated, nothing will stop us.
Rangers are no longer soft touches. We will not bow to or run from bullies and we will not be pressured into handing out even £1 if it is not merited.
We are sorry if this, or the fact that Rangers are financially healthy, isn’t what people want to hear but this is the new reality.
It is for others to come to terms with that and also our continued revival. It would, however, be a pleasant change if we could be left alone to get on with our business.
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