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  1. ASonOfDan on

    Fat Sally explains why there will be administration for a second time.

     

     

    “Our club is different. We are expected to win every game, no matter where we are or what state the club is in.”

  3. DJBEE on

    Met a guy at work in E.K years ago who said he was in fatsals class at school who said “Thankfully I didn’t go down that road and I turned out ok”. Nearly wet myself the guy was far from ok.

  8. Slabhoy - Duntocher is Green and White on

    Puckoon – the first book I laughed out loud at – the border guard ‘”halt, who goes there” hastily tearing a piece of toilet paper…’ Priceless

  9. DJBEE on

    I loved spike Milligan as a kid and still do. Also loved John Peel for the music, legends in my eyes the both of them. Heard an interview once where John P said you should never meet your heroes and said he was being interviewed with spike and he was, well gutted with his hunlike behaviour. Can anyone confirm?

  10. Jobo Baldie on

    Dee Hepburn (Dorothy from Gregory’s Girl as well as a role in Crossroads) lived 4 doors away from me….

  11. Tallybhoy on

    Since the creation of the EPL in the early 1990s, and the subsequent blanket TV coverage, more and more Irish fitba’ fans have started to ‘support’ English clubs.

     

     

    The fact that Celtic were founded by Irish immigrants appears to be of little consequence to many.

     

     

    Some even appear to be unaware of this!

     

     

    HH!!

  13. Slabhoy - Duntocher is Green and White on

    Said the mother Tern to the baby Tern

     

    You’re going to have a brother

     

    ‘Cause one good Tern

     

    Deserves another

     

    Milligna (that well known spelling error)

  14. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    I think Spike Milligan could be difficult [even downright obnoxious] when he was mentally ill.

  15. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

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    David McCarthy

     

    David McCarthy: Why Walter Smith will never walk away from Rangers

     

     

    DAVID McCARTHY looks at why the new Rangers chairman will always be there when his club needs him.

     

     

    31 May 2013 08:55

     

     

    Walter Smith salutes the fans after his final home game in charge of the club in 2011.

     

    Craig Williamson/SNS Group

     

    WALTER SMITH is as hard as nails but when it comes to doing the right thing he can be as soft as putty.

     

     

    Remember 1996, when Paul Gascoigne was facing Christmas alone, holed up in his lodge at Loch Lomond?

     

     

    Once Smith found out, the troubled midfielder was soon pulling up a chair at the manager’s family home in Helensburgh and tucking into the turkey with Walter, wife Ethel and their boys.

     

     

    Fast forward to January 2007 and Smith is Scotland manager, making a fine job of it and giving the national team back a little bit of self-respect.

     

     

    But at Ibrox, all hell is breaking loose under Paul Le Guen. The dressing room, led by Barry Ferguson – who has been stripped of the captaincy – is in revolt and Sir David Murray chooses the players over the Frenchman.

     

     

    Le Guen is guillotined and the call is made to Smith. He admitted at the time he could not say no to Rangers and nine years after leaving, Smith returned and went on to lead Rangers to three championships and the UEFA Cup Final of 2008.

     

     

    Two years ago this month he left again. This time he felt it would be forever after 618 games as manager of Rangers.

     

     

    His team had won exactly 400 of them, the last being at Rugby Park when the championship was clinched with a 5-1 battering of Kilmarnock.

     

     

    He thought he could ride off into the sunset. Some hope.

     

     

    Craig Whyte was in the boardroom by then. Liquidation followed administration and when Charles Green emerged from the rubble holding the keys to Ibrox, he needed someone in the boardroom who had credibility in the eyes of the Rangers support.

     

     

    He went to the 65-year-old former manager and after much soul-searching Smith – who had been part of a last-gasp consortium usurped by Green in the takeover process – agreed to join as a non-executive director.

     

     

    Smith reckoned being on the inside and able to exert an influence on how the club was run was preferable to being on the outside as carnage was being wreaked.

     

     

    Green thought he’d produced a masterstroke by persuading Smith to join him but it turned out to be a grave error.

     

     

    Smith’s standing in the eyes of a support that bought 38,000 season-tickets last summer meant once he had his feet under the table at the top of the marble staircase, he couldn’t be removed. He was untouchable.

     

     

    Green’s inability to engage his brain before his mouth led to his removal as chief executive but he continued to wield influence as a director. His tenure ends at midnight tonight and the in-fighting has become bloodier by the day.

     

     

    On Thursday night, Smith accepted the pleas from both sides in this boardroom battle to become chairman.

     

     

    Reluctant as he is to become so heavily involved, Smith simply could not say no.

     

     

    In his last interview as Rangers manager in 2011, he revealed that despite lifting 21 trophies, the ones that got away still lingered in his memory.

     

     

    He said: “I lost the second-last league game of the season to Kilmarnock at Ibrox in 1998.

     

     

    “It put Celtic into the position where they could win the title and stop Rangers doing 10 in a row, which they did.

     

     

    “The defeat hurt me then and it still hurts me whenever I think about it now, 13 years later.”

     

     

    That’s always been Smith’s way. He hates losing more than he loves winning.

     

     

    And over the last two years, Rangers have lost too many battles. Smith simply can’t do walking away.

     

     

    So the beach or the golf course will have to wait. Rangers, yet again, will hold sway over his life.

  16. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Don’t you just luv the Scottish MSM

  18. The Boy Jinky on

    Jobo

     

     

    Come on pal…. your a great weatherman. .. no a bad runner. .. an all round good guy … and a true celt

     

     

    All others mentioned have a little fame in their own right

     

     

    But … alistair …. hes a worldwide star and hero to over 500m …. failed manager maybe. .. but as a comedian he provides more laughs than the embra fringe

  19. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    DIBBIA..

     

     

    Aren’t we All..;-(

     

     

    He was at His Worst and Best (Health) in Australia with Just him and His New wife and Baby with No Family Support when both of them were ill..

     

     

    I Like to write Wee Stories to my Wee Ghirl and Hide them in the Garden..Spike taught me this..

     

     

     

    Summa of SpikeCSC

  20. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    asonofdan

     

     

    09:11 on 11 August, 2013

     

     

    They certainly are ‘different’ ……

  21. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    ‘So the beach or the golf course will have to wait. Rangers, yet again, will hold sway over his life’ … and yet he finds the time to find a cure for cancer and sort out global poverty and hunger change.

     

     

    The Cardigan could be knitted out of the eyeballs of crack whores and the MSM still wouldn’t bat an eyelid.

  22. lionroars67 on

    Electronic Tims ‏@ETimsNet 2m

     

    We’ve offered €4m plus add ons for Alfie. Potentially the most expensive signing in Celtic’s history if he does as we think he’ll do.

  23. quonno on

    Since it seems a morning for anything.

     

    Watching ‘Top of the Lake’ helps to explain an old Billy Connolly joke..

     

    According to Billy, in the 19th century a group of Wee Frees left Scotland and set sail for new Zealand.

     

     

    On reaching the North Island with its sunny climate and sandy beaches they kept on sailing south.

     

     

    On reaching the bleak South island they rejoiced that they had found someplace where they could happily moan for the next two hundred years.

  24. bazzabhoy on

    fortunes favour mibbes

     

     

    05:15 on 11 August, 2013

     

     

    Had enough of you ya rocket.On holiday the next couple of games, end of September ill be in prince Charlie’s and the oak.

     

     

    Quite happy to discuss out differences over a pint.

     

     

    Call me a Hun again.

  25. Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on

    Good result last night – but no injuries that I’ve read of and some game time for a few that need it are more important

     

     

    We have a rare free midweek, and I think attention will be on work away from the training ground as we try to bring in a couple of players. Interesting times ahead.

  26. DontPatmadug on

    Rangers Supporters ‏@rangersfctrust 16m

     

    Talk of admin 2 and the need for fresh investment via unissued shares this morning: do you think admin 2 is likely how do we prevent it?

     

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    Lord Vegetable ‏@HenrikVegetable 9m

     

    @rangersfctrust @Heavidor Use the remaining £10m to invest heavily in euromillions and maybe a big massive herbalife franchise

  27. garcia lorca on

    I read that Ally McCoist interview a few minutes ago and feel stuck in suspended animation. On the one hand I am awed by his stupidity, his inability to apparently understand the precarious financial situation his club/ company ( delete as appropriate ) find themselves in and on the other hand simply having delirious feelings that in my lifetime this most dreadful and bigoted of organisations holds forth with such a mouthpiece. Deep joy.

     

    Of course, it just might be that super Ally is playing a blinder and distancing himself from the oncoming iceberg however, I have read and seen enough of him to satisfy myself that he is actually way out of his depth and , like the duplicitous Walter, has allowed himself ( for decent reward) to be used as a flag waver for the marching hordes.

     

    Looks like a long,slow, painful lingering death for the tribute act club which the Scottish media now feel that they need to report on.

     

    Well done to the young Celts in Dublin yesterday.

     

    The impact of the successful football colonisation by Sky was clearly demonstrated on the terraces of the Aviva stadium yesterday. Celtic, a club formed by Irish immigrants , who wear the green and white,who fly the state flag of Ireland at their ground and have done so down through the generations despite native hostility could only attract a proportion of the following for Liverpool.

  29. Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on

    I see the quiz show captain is displaying his financial acumen again in the press: “McCoist said. “Brian said the club is all right in the respect it’s not losing money every month. Some months it is making money.”

     

     

    Well that’s ok then …

  30. SonsOfErin on

    I remember Spike Milligan, at the age of about 80, receiving a lifetime comedy achievement award from Jonathan Ross.

     

     

    Ross had a letter from Prince Charles to read out to Spike, as he started the eulogy “I’ve always been a great fan of your work, and have admired..”

     

     

    Spike interrupted “Another grovelling b@stard”

     

     

    And that was the end of that.

  31. Tallybhoy on

    Spike Milligan was invited to and attended the wedding of Charlie and Diana.

     

     

    I can still see him turning up in his top hat and tails!

     

     

    Up the rhebels!

     

     

    HH!!

  33. bazzabhoy on

    bazzabhoy

     

     

    09:56 on 11 August

     

     

    Sorry that sounds like a threat, it’s not intended that way, just don’t like being called a liar or a Hun.

     

     

    Seriously, prince Charlie’s or the oak end of September. A pint and we can discuss our differences.

     

     

    You may need to reattach your fingers.

  35. lionroars67 on

    The impact of the successful football colonisation by Sky was clearly demonstrated on the terraces of the Aviva stadium yesterday. Celtic, a club formed by Irish immigrants , who wear the green and white,who fly the state flag of Ireland at their ground and have done so down through the generations despite native hostility could only attract a proportion of the following for Liverpool.

     

     

    The marketing of the EPL is very successful as you point out

     

     

    It can dominate CQN, watch out for the weekend EPL updates throughout the season

  38. ....PFayr on

    Interesting article in The Scotsman re Sally

     

     

    He really is a tosser…..poor manager who has an ill founded conceit

     

     

    Doing a dreadful job while costing the hoardes a fortune …I should probably like him ….cannae bring myself to ……quite like to punch him in the face …repeatedly

  40. RobertTressell on

    £2 Million in bonuses to directors/ executives etc. £7 Million in wages to do it.

     

     

    Apart from anything else that is just plain wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

     

     

    How much did oldco stiff various businesses and the tax man for? When are trading standards, BDO, etc etc going to step in and tell these guys ‘if your trading off the old brand you need to pay the old brands bills’??????

     

     

    Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

  41. pabloh_AKA_NEIL LENNON on

    A few stories coming out that we are bidding for finnbogason.

     

     

    I like the sound of this guy. Good scoring record, good age and will settle easy. Go get him!

  42. Saint Stivs on

    ….PFayr

     

    10:22 on

     

    11 August, 2013

     

     

    not very statesman like of you my learned friend,

     

     

    but if you insist, i could hold your coat.

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