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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My friends in Celtic,
IMO anyone who still believes the “Moon landing” was genuine must still believe in the tooth fairy.
HH.
Me, I keep an open mind on the moon landing, first off, in the same vein as what was the purpose in faking, what was the point of the moon landing ?
philvisreturns
11:46 on 8 January, 2015
‘The Rothschild-Bilderberg-Space-Lizards wanted to distract people from the REAL footage of the secret Nazi moon landings.’
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Though to be fair the nazis never really got the credit they deserved for their contribution towards putting a man on the moon.
Thanks guys. Let’s hope it’s all o.k. Hun skelper, I know that Nigerian guy, I’ll see him today, tells me he’s heading to Ibrox today to buy a few bits and pieces. I’ll get him to sort you out ;-).
If Ally McCoist was a victim of this heinous crime, it would be piejobbery. (thumbsup)
Philvis,
Brilliant :)
Muscat,
Refresh yer mailbox and check yer junk. HH
Chad Evans deal with Oldham off apparently.
HH jamesgang
canamalar – what was the point of the moon landing ?
We’re never going to find green alien babes if we stay on this planet. (thumbsup)
ernie lynch – Though to be fair the nazis never really got the credit they deserved for their contribution towards putting a man on the moon.
“I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London” (thumbsup)
philvis..,
How do you know ?
ernie lynch
11:55 on 8 January, 2015
philvisreturns
11:46 on 8 January, 2015
‘The Rothschild-Bilderberg-Space-Lizards wanted to distract people from the REAL footage of the secret Nazi moon landings.’
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Though to be fair the nazis never really got the credit they deserved for their contribution towards putting a man on the moon.
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Dunno about that, think they might have managed to subtly stick the V2 rockets paint job onto the Apollo rockets…!
Ayrshire is Green and White
canamalar – Because the closest thing to alien wummin I’ve seen are in Airdrie. (thumbsup)
Jamesgang,
Some thugs threatened the staff. Odious mob rule.
Philvis..,
So ye should be saying
“I aim at Airdrie, but sometimes I hit London” (thumbsup)
Surely Chad Evans who has done his time for his crime is entitled to a second chance.If he is stopped from pursuing his career he is being punished twice.I do not condone what he did however,why keep punishing the guy surely he deserves a second chance. H.H.
Giggity giggity
Joe Filippis Haircut
“Surely Chad Evans who has done his time for his crime is entitled to a second chance.If he is stopped from pursuing his career he is being punished twice.I do not condone what he did however,why keep punishing the guy surely he deserves a second chance”
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He has expressed absolutely no remorse. What about his victim, she is still being punished. ?
HH.
Cos I don’t believe some stuff, folk who do insult, that say more about those who do than me .
I don’t insult those who believe differently to me.
I am perfectly happy to be a nut job btw.
As for the moon landings, I can only imagine how big the computer on the Apolo thing must have been in 1969, and they still got the people in.
HoneyIshrunktheastronautsCSC
HH
Ole Ched Evans could score in Scotland.
Probably rack up a lot of goals too. (thumbsup)
new article posted.
joe filippis haircut
12:15 on 8 January, 2015
Can”t agree with you there …….. in sport, with it’s very high profile, it is imperative that the ‘right messages’ / example is promoted….particularly for society’s youth …….also, rape is a heinous crime and everything possible needs to be done to highlight this fact across society.
Not funny.
The Evans guy was convicted of rape and completed the sentence he was given for it. Preventing him from gaining employment won’t change the trauma his victim experienced.
Right , cut the crap out , back to Celtic ,
Hopefully this ref will be left to referee a football match and not a foul fest , as I think Sevco will turn this into a kicking match . I hope we are well prepared for this . We must not treat the game as the return of the Hun ! It’s a semi against a poor team . Goals are a must ! A minimum of 4 !