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  1. BBC Pacific Quay CSC don't do Honesty, they are malignant, corrupt and bigoted.
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  2. Are there still folks around here advocating Rangers find a way to appease the BBC and settle the “banning” dispute?
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  4. Worth noting that the reference to Logan has been completely removed and not corrected to say it was Celtic. Job done though, as usual, with the completely corrupt Scottish BBC.
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  5. I find this very unlikely. He will have plenty offers much closer to home from teams who are more able to pay his wages.
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  6. Does Pena need a lift to the airport? I stay only 10 mins from Glasgow.
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  7. Deflection(i). These last fifteen years, BBC Scotland has led two angles of attack on Rangers. The first was songs being sung by Rangers supporters. An opening league fixture in Inverness saw the Bears notch a 0-3 victory and Beeb Scotland commentator, John Barnes reassured the listening audience that sectarian chanting was unacceptable. A further reassurance was supplied with the promise that track side reporter, Chic Young had been sent to find the official SPL Observer, to ensure the chanting was included in his report. We have all endured Scottish Government intervention, resultant charges of aggravated breach of the peace, and calamitous court cases. The collated stats proved supporters of ra Sellik were disproportionately responsible, almost a fifth of the population accrued over a third of convictions. The ongoing lack of service provided to license fee paying Rangers supporters emanates from Chris McLaughlin beginning a match report at Easter Road with, "four Rangers supporters have been arrested for alleged sectarian chanting". Further, a BBC Alba colleague of McLaughlin, was the FARE representative that reported Rangers to UEFA after a Champions League fixture in Villarreal. James Kelly MSP led the charge to repeal the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and inadvertently removed a stick from BBC Scotland's armory. Sportscene is PQ's flag ship football show. It has secured highlights packages these last several years. Mostly, it's five minutes of goals and incidents. When the O'Hara brothers were Beeb staffers, it was weaponised to attack referees and linesmen. Ra Sellik were constant vicTIMS of outrageous, unexplainable decisions. The clips were repeatedly broadcast over both sports and news, it was leading debate. The officials took exception and embarked on industrial action, we experienced a referee strike. Amazingly, no one references that period, accepted now that ra Sellik overplayed a hand. The officials were the victims, and well, Sellik wanted to move on to being above that type of thing. It's been quietly put to bed, no one wants to talk about it. The more recent angle of attack is an adjustment to the highlights packages. Added to a reinforced, coordinated element ie incidents first flagged up by live radio commentary; in short, get after ra Sellik's opponents. The scrutiny is mostly on Rangers. This season, it's Morelos and to a lesser extent, McGregor. Last season, it was Ryan Jack. Big Dick has a mantra, 'the Compliance Officer might well be interested'. It's well practised, live radio commentary asks the question, 'will Hearts be aggrieved'? Big Dick picks up that cue at half/full time, checks with that day's nominated VAR correspondent inside PQ, and if it has legs, then Big Dick confirms, 'Michael Stewart has seen the incident and it should have been red'. They have created an awareness and appetite; further, a demand is ready and waiting for Sportscene's five minute highlights package, to deliver. The debate has been created and led, further discussions reinforce. Clare Whyte is the SFA's fourth Compliance Officer, all Sellik supporters. Increasingly, Beeb Scotland name her, as opposed to referral by designation. They expect her to deliver on evidence selected and provided by them. It's a neat strategy by proxy, Sellik turned officials into victims, it's the complaining actions by Rangers and Rangers supporters that ensure they remain victims. PQ regularly taunt the club by sneering, 'we await another statement from the club'. Deflection(ii). Half time on Saturday had commentator in the PQ studio, Liam McLeod bemoaning Rangers good fortune, "Ryan Jack got lucky, his strike deflected off Brown". Pat Bonner found it easy to live with that, "yes, yes, very lucky". Big Dick, mindful of symbiotic matters agreed, "Craig Gordon had that covered, a fortunate deflection took it into the net". Well done Thommo, he lowered his EBT on to the naughty step for a second and spat back, "the level of Rangers dominance meant they created their own luck, it's the least Rangers deserved". A heavy silence ensued. Deflection(iii). Before Saturday's game, Tom English launched into a three-four minute rant on the effectiveness of Steven Gerrard. He got the awkward caveats of Europa Cup football out of the way right from the off, "they've played a few extra European games, they didn't have that last season". Actually, fourteen European games, and you forgot to mention the nearly £9 million revenue banked; we didn't have that last season either. Tom's main thrust was, "domestically". Apparently, we are a point better off, we've only won four away league games, and the recent defeat to Aberdeen and draw with Hibs has tarnished our decent home record. Further, we have not defeated any of the main challengers, have not won a game that mattered. Here's me thinking winning handsomely against Hearts at Ibrox when they were top of the league, counted as defeating a challenger. Further, again defeating the Jambos at Tynecastle(first win there since returning to the Premiership) with ten men, to go top of the league for the first time in seven- eight years, also counted? The thing is, all the other contributors to the live broadcast agreed with BBC Scotland's Chief Sports Writer's rant, unequivocally. After the game, Tom sang both Gerrard's and Rangers' praises. Obviously, he had forgotten the venomous rant, and none of the contributors saw fit to remind him; thus confronting him with a quite ridiculous volte-face.
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  8. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our contributors and listeners and wish them - as well as our all site users - all the very best for 2019.
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  9. I’d rather someone who HAS been proven at a higher level than the SPFL than a youngster who has yet to prove it, in a short-term situation. Less risk of failure.
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  10. Normally I'd prefer us to focus on younger players but if we bring a couple of good pros in and they help us win the league then I couldn't care less. You never know, Defoe might be exactly the sort of influence Morelos needs to become a top striker.
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  11. If we were 10 points off the lead I doubt we'd be after them but as it stands we have a chance of winning this league and have to go for it ... otherwise what's the point of it all.
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  12. Jermain Defoe Not a rumour, not a suggestion, but 100% club have made a move Will speak to Frankie & tell him what I can’t publicly put but we are in the running gents
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  13. THE VERSE 2 Tom English is surely a keen yin, Supporting a team that’s a green yin, His prose may be long, But most of it’s wrong, Well whaddya expect from a ..... Struggling for a rhyme here lads. Any ideas? Kenyan would be wrong.
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  14. I think that many in the country will agree with him.
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  15. Defoe is also seeking first-team football; I find that equally unlikely with us.
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  17. We have the points in the bag. They will be under pressure when they play their game in hand.
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  18. ...plus ET, a long away trip and Sunday fixtures on plastic when they return. And throw in a few injuries.
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  19. Shay Logan received racist abuse at Celtic. Tom English used to be good but he’s just like the rest now.
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  20. If quoted numbers are correct, whoever talked him into going from 60K to 12K has a silver tongue and is as far away from the Sunbed man of Bain methodology as you can get
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  21. Wrt points totals comparsons,................I think they only tell part of the story. The top flight this year is much more competitive with more teams able to get results against the Old Firm and this is represented by looking at the drop-off in points won by Celtic. We have improved and been able to remain on a similar points total, whilst they have went backwards and lost ground. The more important measure is the league table and here we are on the same number of points as Celtic, who have a game in hand. Hence, on top of the European group stages and it's associated benefits, we are much closer to the top of the table under SG&Co. -------------- IIRC one phrase that Rodgers used in his first year accross the city, was that he'd be judged in Europe. It seems as though PQ don't want to remember that or hold him to it. Their memory can be more elephant like when it comes to others.
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  22. Born and bred no argument needed. Given that the NE is a pro union anti EU bastion he undoubtedly will.
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  23. I doubt if they’ll have tens of millions. Failure to reach the CL group stages with a £60m wage bill will hit them hard. Rangers winning the league this year could have serious financial implications for them
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  24. I noticed the Sportscene commentator* said that Brendan Rodgers has never lost a "big marquee match" during his time at Celtc, during the weekend's highlights. Is he forgetting the absolute humpings they took off Barcelona and PSG? You would hope it's just sheer incompetence but there's plenty of evidence to verify the definite bias. These 'journalists' should be bloody ashamed of themselves. *I don't normally watch but couldn't resist on Sunday
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  25. The whole of BBC Scotland is stuck in some kind of time warp, unable to move forward, forever condemned to repeat the same shite year after year. The Hogmanay Show, Off The Ball, Beechgrove Garden, Sportscene, Only An Excuse, etc, etc. It’s pathetic and entirely defining. If you want job security, work for BBC Scotland
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  26. STV had a recorded show with Lulu,watched one song and quickly turned it away,she is awful.
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  27. If true this speaks volumes for Gerrard's focus, integrity and determination not to be pushed around by anyone. Nice to see Sky being given a black eye. They pay the piper but they don't call every tune and well done to SG for putting them in their place. I think he will give a fascinating and insightful interview - but in his own time and when he decides to.
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  28. That was down to deregulation of the financial sector and economic short-termism. Anyone relying on politicians to sort out their lives for them should probably be lobotomised, for their own safety.
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  29. Was it not pointed out, in a previous thread, that that particular statistic is not true? (Apologies if not the case). I believe the stat should be that 14 million people in the UK that are in poverty, 4.5 million of whom are children. As a side-note, for comparison's sake, here's a link to EU figures on poverty in member states: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/9310033/3-16102018-BP-EN.pdf/16a1ad62-3af6-439e-ab9b-3729edd7b775 I'm sure most would like to see the UK doing better in this regard, but it's worth noting that Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Ireland are all faring worse than us.
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