Q. So you were a Rangers season ticket holder, when did you stop?
A. A few years ago. I work weekends and was seldom getting to games.
Q. How do you feel about how Rangers were treated in 2012?
A. How do any of us feel? It wasn’t our fault, one guy came in and did all the damage, then sinister forces took advantage. Every last one of us feel the same way.
Q. How do you feel about the League Cup semi-final, are you looking forward to it?
A. Not really, but we need to do whatever it takes to make sure we don’t get embarrassed. Years of being subjected to the effects of what Charles Green called “bigotry” means we need to fight with everything we’ve got. We can’t let Celtic embarrass us, need to stand up to them.
Q. Thanks, Robert. One more question, are you available to referee that game?
A. You know me, aye ready!
The forthcoming League Cup semi-final will be one of the most difficult games to referee and police in the history of Scottish football. The police will have their most experience Match Commander on duty. The SFA will not have their most experienced referee on duty, instead they have given the game to former Rangers season ticket holder, Bobby Madden.
The authorities must be independent and be seen to be independent. Former season ticket holders are acceptable and welcome as referees, but when you face extraordinary circumstances, take extraordinary care in selecting your referee. I don’t know a single ‘Rangers’ fan who doesn’t have animated views on what happened in recent years. They want to beat us next month more than at any time in original-Rangers 140-year history. Why is one of them the referee?
Craig Thomson is widely regarded as unaligned and Scotland’s top official. There must be a story explaining why he wasn’t given the game.
Our team selection for the League Cup semi-final doesn’t bother me. We can have Scepovic, Guidetti, Stokes or Griffiths up front, Efe and Charlie at the back, I’d still back us to win. Can’t say I’m too worried about the other lot either, even if they manage to hold onto all their, ‘stars’.
What does concern me is how the game is refereed. Before it, CQN will write about how important it will be to keep 11 men on the field, not to dive into tackles inside our penalty area, and not to get drawn into a levelling battle.
You can write the script about how this one is going to play out, we’ll be kicked, elbowed and incited, with liberal dramatic tumbles taken in and around our box. In a decade writing CQN I’ve only discussed referees around a dozen times but the selection for this one is alarming. Mr Madden will be scrutinised more than at any time in his professional life. He has an enormous challenge ahead.
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I’ve only had time to scan back and noticed a couple of posts about the upcoming game against the zombies and best being careful about wearing colours.
I said jocularly that we will hump them to a hun in work, his face contorted and his reply was….so f**k, we’ll win the battles off the park…believe me, these bassas are are like hurting animals.
My kids have nagged me constantly to get them tickets…no chance, although, they think I’m trying :)
Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas
Smith’s wee tantrum was revealing ….he was giving testimony to what the likes of Davidson, Tait etec etc brought to their game.
Geordie Munro.
Are you trying to be controversial?
4tackles then a booking fair?
It would depend on the nature of the tackle. I had no issue with Commons booking after his first foul, it deserved a booking but Hamill and the other Killie player who cemented Broonie should have been booked earlier.
Get the hammerthrowers out the game and let the skill levels rise. Skilful players are being kicked out of the game and that’s one of the reasons that Scottish football is so poor.
BT –
when I started 33 (see what I did there) years ago in EK’s famous employer it was the same. CB radio was all the rage and the multi-storey office block was referred to as The Vatican!
Pfayr,
Aye.
4 fouls in 20 mins and I’d want him booked.
But a booking for four fouls in a game in not persistant enough for persistant fouling imo.
Did Madden not get pelters from the skint mob for denying them a stonewaller a while back??
Heard a whisper today wee Sean might be making a return. 6 mths left on his contract and looking for a move back north and RD interested ( or is it PL ).
Sipsini
Correct
Was counselling my son tonight about the Hun mentality
He goes back to Uni next week …..I was advising to be careful on the day of the game and particularly afterwards if we stuff them
Not a game or aftermath I’m looking forward to
Ah….halcyon days
The Hun mason refs cheat like hell and no body does anything about it
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
Undoubtedly, that’s the case these days.
30 years ago I worked in a Civil service office, not to far from your workplace, where the managers were vocally anti-catholic.
“Geordie Munro.
Are you trying to be controversial?”
Jimmynotpaul,
What I’m saying is if we were to book every player on their 3rd foul most games would end up 7 a side and possibly ruined.
JNP
correct …hammer throwers out
Geordie
Being lax with cluggers never favours CFC
“geordie munro
21:27 on 7 January, 2015
Pfayr,
Aye.
4 fouls in 20 mins and I’d want him booked.
But a booking for four fouls in a game in not persistant enough for persistant fouling imo”
Oops. Correction…..3 fouls.
I was at the ticket office earlier collecting briefs for Hamilton and Dingwall but asked about EL availability.
Apparently tickets for Inter Milan are selling well but there are still plenty for sale for anyone looking for extras.
Steinreignedsupreme
20:57 on 7 January, 2015
Paris suspects arrested according to twitter.
Do they still use the Guilotine in France……??
BCW
I know, my son was head hunted at school by his engineering company, because he was an intelligent Tim with high grades. He became a Tradesman last year. Company thriving with many like him.
est
Id rather have Griff than Shaun!!
Geordie
If the laws were employed properly …the cluggers would cut it out for fear of being sent off
You never know …football might break out
Ok B.T.and Jobo.
I will play, 34 years for me.
I agree Civil Service full of Tims.
Much to my delight.
Reasons being of course that the private sector like banking wouldn’t employ us, so we got the poorer paid jobs.
“Being lax with cluggers never favours CFC”
Pfayr,
Lol. Tis true.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting it should take 4 challenges like elbows on kayal to be booked.
dallas dallas
Thanks for that. Much appreciated.
HH!!
Blantyre, you are right about the social having a lot of Celtic fans in it.
The room I work in now, is thought of as the Celtic end of the office.
In saying that a wee guy I work with travelled about Europe in the mid to late seventies with the defunct club.
He had a pop at me about the deal we have with Co-op bank.
I just replied the Co-op bank is still in business whereas the Bank of Scotland are no longer what they were and the former Ibrox chairman and Scottish ‘business superstar’ played a huge part in that.
weeman67
Not according to latest news!!
weeman67 21:31 on 7 January, 2015
“Paris suspects arrested according to twitter.
“Do they still use the Guilotine in France……??”
Thankfully not. That would suit these characters to a tee.
dallas
I agree we got jobs in Lanarkshire because no apprentice opportunities for us
Bcw
Minerva St
RRC worked there for a while
The main reason we lost the league in 2005 was that we were up against a team which had been cheating by fielding improperly registered players.
Even if they had only been punished by the deduction of 3 points for one game for one player to cover all the breaches of that season, we would have won the league by 2 points.
No longer Black Sunday for me, more a light grey, looking back.
Black day, though, when we finally come face -to- face with the Sham in February, with Sevco going for their nth league cup win, and the SPFL website describing them as Rangers, founded 1872.
Meanwhile, Doncaster will continue to assure us that 2+2=5.
Maybe he’s been looking at the Sevco accounts, right enough.
Stein
Id shave those big stupid beards off for a start!!
Bertrand Russel :- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid … Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Sipsini
I will be no where near the semi final. The hun mob I know are going tooled up. Trying to talk ma weans out of Glasgow that day. 2 want tickets, other 2 getting interested. Maybe book a but n ben up north and take them all.
At Madrid 2-0 against the Ronaldo crew with 5 mins left.
Tallybhoy, you are welcome. Parts of Ayrshire are green & white
I have worked with a few people from Ayrshire and I know their opinions about us are, let me say, not that diplomatic.
One guy from Dalry who was a reserve and travelled about offices who were short staffed was astonished there were so many Catholics in the social. He was crapping himself about working in Coatbridge.
He told me if anyone wore green in Dalry, it was the talk of the steamie.
I have a lot of respect for Ayrshire Tims.
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
21:32 on 7 January, 2015
est
Id rather have Griff than Shaun!!
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Not so sure, like the wee guy ( Shaun ) but too injury prone when with us but that appears to have improved in recent seasons. Watching him play for Scotland thought he came across as a tricky intelligent player and playmaker.
Apparently Leicester also interested and willing to offer Wigan more money for the remaining terms of his contract but the wee man wants a move back to CP.
blantyretim
The Tims got to deal with PI’s…………….
They were all PI’s in Minerva st.
Brill. The train will take me right into where your hotel is I think. See you then big guy.
I rest my case,
Beatbhoy
Well said.
What’s changed ?
Why pay money for it ?
HH
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ 21:40 on 7 January, 2015
“Id shave those big stupid beards off for a start!!”
Sure they’ll have plenty of time to cultivate facial hair in the jail – not much else to do.