Rangers FC Thread

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someone should remind the other lot that it is 2 years since they picked up a trophy, and can they remember what it was.:FINGER:

lol, no Celtic fan will deny the better team (on the day) won.

Rangers deserved it, and thank God Walter allowed them to actually play football today, keep it up and you might get somewhere. :)
 
Paul McBride QC, Celtic's (un)official spokesman has asked UEFA to decide whether the LC final was held under the correct rules. It is believed his query is to centre on the size and shape of the... goalposts at Hampden. McBride believes that FIFA's rules state that goalposts should be generally square in shape and a minimum of 6ins. across and that UEFA had also agreed to adopt this standard. However it is believed that the SFA have either ignored or blatantly refused to change their rulebook and so yesterday's posts were illegal, especially the ones at the Celtic end! McBride is of the opinion that neither of Rangers goals would have stood if the posts had been square as the shots would have come back into play, instead of deflecting into the net. Therefore because both of Ranger's goals were illegal then Celtic actually won 1-0 and so should be awarded the trophy. BTW UEFA's next meeting is not due to take place until a week on Friday.

Don't shoot the messenger.
 
i see he deleted all his threats of murder and rape and stabbing
and now hes the victim
he is only a victim of stupidity he does anything for attension.you just need to look back at his posts over the past few months to see the trouble he has tried to cause,,jekyll and hyde has not got a look in pmsl..he :banana:just aint good enough:banana: lol
 
NEIL LENNON bounced and fidgeted in the main stand, a simmering ginger bundle of energy and frustration.
He yelled. He cursed. He fed a non-stop stream of instructions to his sidekicks on the sidelines.

Nothing the Celtic boss could say made a difference in the end. No amount of tinkering or yelling or substitutions could turn the tide of a game that always seemed destined to end in defeat.

This time, when it was over, he couldn't even blame the ref.

Let's be honest here - Craig Thomson got off the hook yesterday - big time.

Had Rangers lost this titanic final, there would have been hell to pay for the two stonewall penalties he refused to give them.

Instead? Well, Old Firm fans have better memories than an elephant who's spent six hours a day playing the Brain Training game on its Nintendo DS, so neither decision will be forgotten soon.

At least history will boil them down to a side issue, a pub argument over what year it was that some diddy rubber-eared a kick in the knee and a blatant handball. Which, for the sake of a decent bloke, is a blessing.

I've watched both those incidents over and over and still can't for the life of me understand why they weren't no-brainers for a man of Thomson's experience.

Each time, he's in a perfect position. Each time, he could not have made the job easier for himself. Yet in the first half, when Thomas Rogne's boot clearly catches Nikica Jelavic, he gives the spot kick before changing his mind - presumably on the advice of linesman Graham Chambers 50 yards away. Then, when Mark Wilson sticks out his left arm to block Maurice Edu's flick on the hour mark, he has the best view in the stadium - yet waves appeals away.

Someone said to me later that, to be fair, the guy got nothing else wrong all afternoon.

What keeper ever got away with that excuse if he had a blinder only to throw one in ten seconds from time?

Fact is, when it mattered most in a national cup final, Thomson got it absolutely wrong.

Not once, but twice - three times if you count the call deep in extra-time when he only booked Charlie Mulgrew for hauling down Jelavic to prevent what would have been a clear goalscoring opportunity. These are the moments that can define careers.

Scotland's No 1 referee is very lucky they won't stain his forever.

As for Walter Smith? Well, he'll reckon - rightly - that justice was done in the end, because his team deserved this triumph, as he does himself as he heads towards the Ibrox exit door.


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On Thursday, he'd watched them go out of the Europa League to PSV Eindhoven thanks to a performance that simply wasn't good enough, brave enough or attacking enough.

I wrote then that unless key men pulled their finger out at Hampden, they could kiss their chances of silverware goodbye for the season.

One of those who needed to produce more than most was Steven Davis, missing in action against the Dutch.

Well, he didn't half take a look at himself here.

His goal capped a Man of the Match display, robbing the dozy Joe Ledley before driving on and shooting low beyond Frather Forthter's left hand - albeit a trundler in off the post - but his contribution was excellent, full of power, drive and desire.

Davis was the catalyst for Rangers. Plenty others took the hint, none more so than Jelavic.

His winning goal was maybe even scruffier than the first, hitting the left-hand post before spinning along the line and in.

It's actually arguable whether any goals in an Old Firm final have taken so long to go in since Tam Forsyth - watching from the stands along with a cast of old-time stars - bobbled the winner in the 1973 Scottish Cup.

do Rangers care? Don't be silly. They NEEDED this triumph - for their gaffer, for their fans, for their own battered self-esteem and they more than earned it. Celtic never came close to hitting the heights of the last few derbies, never knocked it around with anything like the swagger they've shown in recent months.

In Beram Kayal, they had an outstanding midfielder, someone willing to scrap for everything and to constantly scope out the right pass.

He was to Lennon's side what Davis was to Smith's but unlike Davis, he found few takers when he looked around him for handers.

Georgios Samaras threatened to make an impact without ever delivering. Kris Commons and Gary Hooper had lost their spark.

The best Joe Ledley can say is that his headed equaliser made amends for his part in selling the shirts earlier on.

Forster never looked in command, Rogne and Mulgrew were suspect and - crucially - neither Wilson nor Emilio Izaguirre got to impose themselves going forward the way Rangers had let them in games gone by. By the time a limping Izaguirre saw a straight red for barging over substitute Vladimir Weiss, time was almost up and the game was too.

Though just for once, a sending off and half-a-dozen bookings shouldn't be allowed to reflect badly on a meeting between these two, because both sets of players reacted admirably to all the warnings about the responsibility they carried towards the fans.

No one over-reacted to tackles, they kissed and made up over tangles and, all in all, they produced a final that should be remembered for all the right reasons.

Though to be fair, I'm writing this before they add up the final score in Glasgow's hospitals

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NEIL LENNON bounced and fidgeted in the main stand, a simmering ginger bundle of energy and frustration.
He yelled. He cursed. He fed a non-stop stream of instructions to his sidekicks on the sidelines.

Nothing the Celtic boss could say made a difference in the end. No amount of tinkering or yelling or substitutions could turn the tide of a game that always seemed destined to end in defeat.

This time, when it was over, he couldn't even blame the ref.

Let's be honest here - Craig Thomson got off the hook yesterday - big time.

Had Rangers lost this titanic final, there would have been hell to pay for the two stonewall penalties he refused to give them.




So strange that a St Mirren fan (stop laughing there) has so much hatred for Neil Lennon and Celtic. Don't understand it!!!
 
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