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Looked a tired performance and wasn't good but didn't really look in too much danger in that second half and finished the strongly as well. To be honest, who gives a flying fuck, let's get p!shed again! CHAMPIONS!

We need to remember , they had 2 weeks to prepare for this game , were fully fit and as close to full strength as possible , we had players missing and players drained after the midweek game and the resultant racism storm . We were never in trouble in this game , we were never run off our feet , we were not out played , we were not out coached . They were desperate to win this , make no mistake , their after match comments were pretty pathetic , given Eduardo 2 dives , only 1 yellow , how strange . Next year they will have only half that team on the park , who knows what they will replace those with , time will tell , but I am one happy bear ?.

Racist Encounters in Scottish Football(Part 1). I cannot imagine my upbringing in deepest, darkest Lanarkshire in the 60s and early 70s differed much from anyone else in Scotland in those times. We are all products of our conditioning. I attended a village primary school, and only three of the school roll did not share the pigmentation of my skin. A pair of Hindu twins, who also attended Cubs with me, were present for a couple of years before being whisked off to private school. The third lad was a couple of years below, he was of African origin and adopted by white parents through the auspices of the church. Mostly, we called him "Davy". I have recounted my Amateur footballing experiences back in the day, and Davy's participation was a law of diminishing returns. He was a more than decent footballer but every time he stepped on to the pitch, the racism was overwhelming. At Fir Park Boys' Club, a Coach inquired, "where's Davy"? A couple of hands were raised, the Coach looked and said, "naw, Davy the Darkie"! I became aware that unmeant casual racism was just as hurtful. Davy was a big Rangers supporter and a regular attendee at Ibrox with both his old man and our grouping. Davy loved Dave Smith Celtic had an effective winger at the time, Paul Wilson a player of mixed parentage. I don't want to stray into Meghan Markle territory, but Wilson had a sallow complexion We Rangers fans sung a song of homage, "I'd rather be a Darkie than a Tim". It was a cause of great hilarity on the terrace steps, when our grouping, including Davy belted out the ditty. Davy sang it liked he meant it; there must have been comfort in the acceptance. Black players of the time, were Pele and Eusabio. Nearer home, the only black guy regular turning out was West Ham's Clyde Best. Davy received the comparisons, but he had a good line, "I prefer George". I am not excusing the racism existing at that time, I am recounting the times. Education is the thing, tertiary education focused my mind. The music I adored was Southern Soul, my heroes were Otis Redding, Al Green, Ann Peebles, .... etc. Davy's fave rave was the Average White Band and we attended a few of the Mighty Whities gigs together. The last time I socialised with Davy was at Ibrox for the final of the Tennent Caledonian Cup against West Bromwich Albion. It concluded with a deserving 0-2 for the Baggies and the majority of the 65,000 crowd applauded them from the pitch. Ron Atkinson had assemble a hell of a team, Batson, Cunningham, and, Regis were the epitome of speed and balance. Throw in Robson, Wullie Johnston and, Ally Robertson and you had Britain's first genuine multi-racial talented team. At that time, our preferred place at Ibrox was the far end of the West Enclosure. It was a tad higher and provided a most decent view down the ground. A dozen of us, late teens to early twenties were in early and had a great view of dozens of our fellow Bears racially abusing West Brom's black players. It was all verbal, but appalling. I would like to say we confronted some of those screaming abuse, but we didn't. A few of us apologised to Davy, he shrugged his shoulders and offered, "average white guy behaviour". I felt small and decided to be a better man. Early in my Army career, I received a letter from my Mother, it was a few weeks in arriving as I was attending the Army Jungle School in Borneo. It told of Davy's suicide. Initially, my concern was my own discomfort. A few months later, I was participating for several weeks in one of those huge mobilisation exercises in West Germany. Those exercises ran on their own timings, usually a couple of hours ahead of local time, called, 'Zulu Time'. I was asked the time by a black Sergeant and I replied, "Zulu time"? I spent a few minutes profusely apologising and explained about Davy. He laughed and told me to calm down and explained the phonetic alphabet. I returned home on leave and met Davy's old man walking the family dog. There were tears and I was told the member of the family/community that missed Davy most, was the family dog because she could not see colour. Part 2 will begin on another period of leave, New Years 1988 and Rangers announced the signing from Aston Villa of Mark Walters.

It is understandable that our players are emotionally and physically drained. They have been, for the most part, exceptional this season. We navigated the Euro League qualifiers, flew out the traps in the league and after 1st OF game, got a lead we'd never surrender. We then qualified from our EL group unbeaten home or away and continued our domestic dominance, League Cup apart. At the start of the season I don't think any of us could have imagined that we'd have secured the league before the split and progressed to last 16 of Europe given the way last season petered out. In my opinion the only objective this season was to win the SPFL title at all costs. In truth, we completely dominated the league. We held our own in Europe (could argue we are punching above our weight in Europe). The last few weeks have seen an outpouring of emotion for differing reasons. I think what I am trying to say is, cut the management staff and players some slack. Our mission has been accomplished and whilst it would be amazing to go full league campaign unbeaten, invinsibles doesn't have to happen to make this squad and management team immortals.

100% with you on this to the extent that, back when we were drawn against Galatasary, I remember thinking that maybe it would be no bad thing if we missed out on the group stages if it allowed us to focus all our energies on the league. Very happy that the team exceeded my expectations and excelled in both!

I'm not one to cause controversy but may I suggest this is a little bit of an overreaction...?

You have to remember that some fans aren't happy if they have nothing to moan about!

Still unbeaten and unbeaten by them, Wright was impressive when he came on again.

He was doubtful before the match after taking a knock on Thursday, so we are lucky that he makes the bench.

if the keeper is half a second later arriving it's a pen and a red card. It's a split second thing.

No he didn't. He looked like he lacked match fitness. He was also played out of position in his first match. You have a bad habit of mischaracterising Rangers players.

Everyone should try to go once (except @Whosthedadoobviously) if only to see what a squalid dump they play in. I have SUCH good memories of them sitting helpless as 7000 bears roared out the famine song continuously for 20 minutes. That song really got under their thick skin.

Sometimes these things happen in football. I remember one game I played in the opposing team had a throw in, I was on the line to prevent the nearest player from receiving the ball on the line, the ball was thrown down the line, I had my eyes on the ball all the way as it was going over my head, as I followed the ball I raised my foot to try and get a touch as I turned, one of their players was coming in to head the ball on and my foot went right into the guys face, I was quite upset when it happened, as the guy fell to the ground I thought I had taken his teeth out, I immediately went to see if he was ok, the ref called me over and said I was going to book you but I seen how concerned you were and it was a total accident. Sometimes you can make a misjudgment and get it totally wrong, it's football it happens!. Roofe got it wrong but there was no malice in it, it was a red card for dangerous play, IMO.

Have gone for Alf not just for his goal or his hold up play,but also for his defensive work at clearing corners.

got to be morelos unless you are a grinch. actually had some really nice touches as well as the goal

Long may they continue to believe that they are as good as we are and that we have been "lucky" this season. It's that attitude that's contributed in us overtaking them without them "noticing". 10 meant everything to them and at start of the season they believed it was assured. They have taken their eye off the ball and the longer this continues, the better it'll be for us.

Surprised at some of the comments on the last page and that's before reading the rest of the thread. I think it shows how far we have come that we were far from at our best and yet they still couldn't beat us . Brilliant for Alfie to get his goal too and we are still unbeaten

Nothing strange about our performance. It was the same as Thursday. Same stand off tactics and let the opposition do whatever the fuck they want. Our performance today was lame and pathetic. Players going through the motions when we have players on the bench who are busting to play and will never get a chance. Absolutely raging with the attitude that we showed today.

Can’t complain too much today. Draw was probably a fair result. Alfie getting on the scoresheet against them at last was highlight of the day for me

This is / was a no-brainer. Davis has shown this season that he is an asset both domestically and in Europe. Vastly experienced, a clever player and rightly in the running for POTY.

was a mixed bag from him. Backed us to the hilt over Thursday but also talked some real shite. Then embarrassed himself being gutted Morelos scored.

should have been off for his second dive.

We've finished strongly.

Dirty diving bastard, he is, then!!!

And also makes more of a statement.

Let's stick to the football lads - there's an off-topic forum for the political crap.

Sounds nice Compo. A wee cup of caffeine for this bear. I'm off booze at the moment. Trying to shift a few lockdown pounds??? Enjoy the game!

It's not Compo's fault that the Nationalists decided to wade in to Scottish football for short term political gain.

A braw day for a game of footie and a day when I can see ends out in force making nuisances of themselves giving the SNP a deflection from their leaders story stand by tomorrow's headlines Rangers fans break curfews.

Huge win for Brighton. Two wins in a week gives them breathing space. Newcastle are just awful. It would be good if it came down to the last game of the season at the Cottage when Newcastle go there. Scott - only correct prediction score so far with Fulham 1-2 Leeds.

What a game that was! 2 up in 5 minutes, it was wild in the Rangers end that day. Jingle bells...... I would love an absolute mauling of that mob, it’s the only thing missing from our return. While our 2-0 win there earlier this season was comfortable and never in doubt, the only thing missing is we didn’t score more and give them a proper thumping. Tomorrow hopefully we put that right, although with everything going on, I will gladly take a draw to keep our unbeaten record.

Can I be entered please

enter me please.

Summer long open top bus tour of Scotland. Let the people party ?

Wow! Love it. Yes please!

Hmmm. I usually like your posts but have to call you out on this one. You have to remember the last 10 years and this is a new side being grown with a project. They dont have the 9IAR 90s mentality we have, half the players were kids if they were born during then. Its rebuilding. This team has risen the bar again this year - we may expect higher long term but as i posted earlier P3 W2 D1 v Celtic is going in the right direction

Would like to see McGregor sign a new contract in the coming weeks, alongside Tavernier he has been our best player this season. I can't imagine how we could replace him at the moment.

I'll take the draw; it's understandable the players were a bit under par after an emotional couple of days.

Good Aribo is off thank feck

He's on the bench.

I like this. A good solid display of unity.

spawny is a word you don't see very often.

He is and we missed him badly against Prague. McGregor Balogun - Goldson - Helander - Barasic Kamara - Davis Aribo - Hagi - Kent Morelos Subs: McLaughlin - Bassey, Patterson, Zungu, Wright, Roofe, Arfield, Defoe, Itten At least Hagi from the off, one would hope that everyone is up for it from the off ... and if not, we change quickly. I reckon we`ll see more of the "peripheral" guys after the split.

Lie back and relax its been a long time since we played them as champions pour yourself a good measure of malt and a wee Fowler's to open your taste buds

Not sure what to think about today. We are effectively playing with no pressure. That to me suggests this could go two ways. Firstly, we will playing without any edge and that could effect our commitment to winning the 1 to 1 battles around the pitch. Secondly, we could go out there and play with freedom and put on a good show. Hopefully it's the latter. Got a strange wee feeling Alfie will deliver the goods today.

I disagree. I think he should be going for it. I'm just going to leave it at that.

Ive been three time and we have lost all three!!!!!! I'm barred for life