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Well, that's it then. 29 played for us and 28 for them. Last season set the precedent, null and void is now off the table!

If there have been any transgressions it's not the football authorities we need to be wary of it's the wee woman in Bute house who warned Scottish football was on a yellow card.

As soon as Neil Lennon took over from Brendan Rogers it was almost guaranteed how this would end. Many of us said so at the time. The only question was how long it would take old popcorn teeth to work his brand of magic. Personally, I'd like to thank him for his predictability and for being the one who destroyed the 10 in a row dream. Horrible bastard that he is.

Aye, she swatted that stupid question away, BBC continue to be an utter embarrassment.

Thankfully Miss Sturgeon has more pressing concerns to worry about and gave short-shift to question put to her by BBC regarding this issue.

Interesting the Patterson family took to social media last night denying he was involved.

The lengthy silence is making me suspect this investigation is uncovering more than expected. Hope that’s not the case.

So long as this was the first such "party" they'd been to.

Back in the dying days of the Murray regime Rangers had no representation in the governing bodies of Scottish football. I always remember David Leggat making this point in his daily leggoland blog at the time. the yahoos then took all the positions of power & have been there ever since. The end result is the here for all to see now. A game that is corrupt & rotten to the core which sponsors won’t touch with a barge pole

You’re making me greet but that’s fossil football and we old timers just have to accept that the days of rip-roaring excitement with two teams trying instead of hoping to win are long gone.

Here we go again "SOCIAL MEDIA" the modern curse,if the players were there they should have known this would "out" on these platforms and deserve whatever punishment/sanctions are issued.

Let's see how these rumours develop before condemnation

I think Cedric Itten will be just fine. I've lost count over the years how many written off duds went on to become heroes we couldn't do without.

Listen! if this is proven to be correct then the players deserve every punishment they get, lucky we had the day off today and this has been reported as happening on Saturday night! so I don't see there being any punishment handed out to the club. Separate Entity FC went on a weeks jolly to Dubai during lockdown and we have yet to see any punishment handed out to them for that! also Duffy left the ''bubble'' by flying home on a commercial flight to London and then play for them the next match, a day later? so for me there is nothing the club could have done to prevent this, it's all on the players who are involved, if true??.

they haven't been near any players.

Allegedly Bassey, Patterson, Mebude and Brian Kinnear

will be missed. Let's hope they screw up his replacement a few times.

we can now win the league without scoring another goal. 9 0-0 draws does it.

THIRTEEN. POINTS.

If anyone is still paying for a TV licence then they're effectively endorsing the bBC and how it operates. Surely no one here is in that category???

That is unconscionable.

Turn away now Rousseau...… effectively.... if we are undefeated in the remaining 2 OF games this season.... we only realistically need 2 more wins. Celtic can amass 91 points. If we draw twice in the remaining OF games they can only get to 87 points. If we draw those two games we would be on 81 points. So 6 points (given our superior goal difference) should be sufficient to win the league.....

How is this even possible? Any players guilty of such breaches know their are effectively putting their careers at risk.

The system is a joke and has clear flaws. Let's focus on the Roofe incident. It's a red card, it's reckless and dangerous albeit non violent conduct. The referee books him(coming back to this). The incident is flagged by whomever as well as given maximum exposure on Tbs and from there the CO goes to the ref asking if he saw all of the incident. This is to me coercion. In asking the referee this question it indicates to him his mistake is apparent and has been highlighted. Natural instinct is to protect himself in many if not all occasions. But the question should also be raised of if you didn't see all of the incident then how can you constitute that it is a yellow card offence? Makes absolutely no sense at all and makes you wonder just how much peer pressure was in his ears inside the corridors of the sfa to "have another few looks at it, are you sure about this one son?" Of course there's plenty not being cited. St Johnston boy on Roofe earlier in the season, the lad for Hamilton on goldson just last week where he's looking at the goldson before he delivers a forearm/elbow... (Alfie was done for pretty much the same and one of the reasons was it was premeditated), Kane for St Johnston with a reckless studs up challenge on Davis in the recent game at Ibrox, nothing done there... The whole thing is a disgrace and I'm sure the club will be doing all they can to make changes but not holding my breath.

I don't believe that front 3 would work as well, as they lack Kent's pace and trickery and it would allow the defence to remain more compact and would result in less space for the team. Kent's presence is integral to the success of the team, even when he's not on top form.

nothing was done about celtc players breaching the rules in Dubai. It would seem ridiculous if this leads to anything on that basis.

I think Aribo has been fine. For me, he's not quite looking himself because he's playing deeper. His close control, strength on the ball, shielding, ability to beat a man is sublime. And, he won the ball back several times against Kilmarnock, beautifully - another particular strength. He still does all those things, regularly, it's just that in a deeper position, a ball given away is a bit more dangerous. If Arfield was fit, then Aribo would be rested for the odd game -- as he was earlier in the season. But, yesterday, the option was him or Kamara - and we all repeatedly said Kamara-Jack-Davis is too defensive, or doesn't work. Before we start sharpening the pitchforks, we need to try to be a little more objective. I criticised Itten first half, because I didn't think he was doing enough. Then I praised his second half, because I thought he worked hard. Nevertheless, I still don't think the service helped him, though - he needs different service from Morelos and Roofe, IMO.

we have a lot to thank connie for this season. Celtc have been absolute bottlers and on valentines day are yet to win a hard match all season.

Im not sorry to see Sheff Utd go. I dont mind Fulham but they havent been good enough. WBA - I didnt mind under Bilic but its maybe time Sam got relegated. Agree RE Brentford, they are appealing. I have wanted Bristol City to come up over the past few years but they keep coming up short in the play offs - they are a potential big side. Blackburn were my dark horse for the play offs this year. But the big boys in the championship are not close at the moment.

Waspish, 26th, WASPish.

Today on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound : Richard Gordon : "Rangers have had three red cards this season, all retrospective" Michael Stewart : "ah but, they've been getting away with incidents all season, here at Tannadice, Morelos got away with throwing an elbow". Richard Gordon : "Morelos was retrospectively red carded for the incident at Tannadice". Michael Stewart :"ah but, they've been getting away with other incidents all season".

I will wait until he's signed off on a title win I still haven't forgot his slip against Chelsea cost me plenty that day??

......unless celtic don’t like it. I finished that for you!

In the spirit of Frankie's post. I played organised football from the age of 8-9 years. It started with the Cubs, then at primary school, and stepped up a level at Uddingston Amateurs. A local pro, played Keeper for Hamilton Acas for a dozen years, Billy Lamont founded Uddy Amateurs with a couple of fellow Pro's to put something back, given the circumstances it was a Sunday club, comprising two teams, under 11s and under 13s. I played at Secondary school and in second year, along with half-a-dozen others, left Uddingston Amateurs for Motherwell's official youth team, Fir Park Boys' Club. I moved through the under 15s, under 17s, and under 18s over three and half years. We were coached by two Motherwell first team players, the then best player to have not received a cap, Joe Wark and two dozen Northern Ireland capped Sammy Campbell. It was a decade of full on organised football, training three times a week in evenings and playing at least twice over the weekends. It was a football life. At Fir Park Boys' Club, we had a good, moderately successful team. The usual gig was surviving all cup competitions until you met Celtic Boys Club, occasionally this happened in a final, where you lost by three a three goal margin. Playing Celtic Boys Club in those days, the early 70s was an experience. We had a team of 13 getting stripped, another couple of lads turned up in expectation. Celtic Boys Club also stripped 13, but had another three dozen standing around the pitch. They all appeared in green blazer, club tie, grey flannels, polished shoes, and with CSC flight bag over their shoulders. The majority of those sidelined lads could have walked into our team. The motivation was desperation to play. Of course, I knew several of the CBC lads, played against them in both schools and amateur games, played alongside them in Lanarkshire Schools selections. There was one, a tremendous talent who signed for Celtic as a 14 year old. He was a genial lad, encouraging and good natured. He had a nickname that derived from his pudding bowl hairstyle. I was shocked at a change in his behaviour in a schools senior game, he was demonstrative and bullying of fellow team mates at the loss of a couple of goals. I won't name him, but he did testify along side Alan Brazil in Torbet's first appearance in courts for abuse(rape) twenty-five years past. His career was abruptly ended by a thrombosis at the age of 17. He was the standout in a Scottish schoolboys international 5-3 victory at Wembley. I moved on the Uni' and represented the Wednesday side in both league and Uni' Shield games. A new manager at St Mirren spotted me and a long term mate in a match against the Agricultural College. We signed part-time year long deals the following Saturday. I did not make a St Mirren first team appearance, never got near it, I played half-a-dozen Reserve matches, mostly I was confined to the third team playing in the Combination league. The lad playing behind me, at right back had been signed from CBC. Further, he was full time tertiary education too, attending Paisley College of Technology. He was a Renfrewshire boy and a truly wonderful player. Again, I won't name him, as it happens he is long gone. I was released at the end of my year, and true to the words you hear about Sir Awex, he found me a club, Shettleston Juniors. I was to replace a player who had left for Rangers, Bobby Russell. I hated Junior football and did not last the year. A name might be familiar to some Gersnetters, Sid Sage? He was a John Cleese lookalike with Roger de Courcey's haircut. A game at Forth Wanderers in the Red Hackle League Cup, he approached me pre-match, asked me to confirm my name, then told me if I ran past him, "ah'll fcuking stab ye". Effectively, I had been bullied, and stayed bullied. Sid had spent two decades playing in the lower reaches of senior football(Albion Rovers, Stenny, East Stirling, ...etc) and some years in the better paying Junior ranks. Back to the Renfrewshire boy, I could never understand why he didn't progress? A decade after sharing the same strip, I ran into a former Uni' mate in an Edinburgh restaurant. I was based at Redford Barracks for a month or so, she was a burgeoning senior civil servant. Further, she had been the Renfrewshire boy's girlfriend for 18 months. I asked about him, his progress. She told me he had been deceased some four years, suicide. He had not recovered from his boys club experiences. Knowing what we know now, you wonder how you negotiated the minefields that was Boys Club/Youth football without serious incident? Another sequence that was prevalent back in the day, was after games, we went to the bus stop to await public transport back home. Most of the opposition lads would be standing beside you and we all witnessed two or three cars passing with several green blazers sitting behind Cairney and Torbet. I could recognise Torbet because he was a weel kent face on the scene; I knew Cairney because he came from Tannochside, a mile and a half up the road. Getting stripped gained you a lift home post-match, and mostly meant a forfeit that would haunt the rest of your life. Rangers involvement with Gordon Neely means our club has questions to answer. Those answers will be beyond dark, meaning some lads lost their dignity, their minds, and their futures. We should do the right thing by lads only desperate to play football.

With that in mind, I've kept a close eye on the recent debate on historic child abuse within Scottish football. Some of the names involved in the subject were familiar to me and I also played for three years at Hutchison Vale, one of the club's highlighted in the yesterday’s SFA report. I was also fortunate enough to play with Dundee Utd for a few years and for Scotland at under 15 and under 16 level. Included in this were travelling to and playing at places such as Northern Ireland, Wales, Italy, Sweden, France, Holland and more. I played against teams from Cameroon, the USA, the Czech Republic, Italy, Thailand and more: enjoying a post-match craic with our opponents, shared language or not. I was managed by Jim McLean, trained with Duncan Ferguson and played against Thierry Henry. I was that good as a 'keeper, I even allowed Phil Neville to score against me at Ibrox. But, hey, so did Stefan Klos. All this happened over a number of years but I never witnessed genuine abuse; sexual or otherwise. Verbal 'bullying' was perhaps as bad as it got and that was something we all dealt with in our younger years at school so wasn't unique to football. You made a mistake; sometimes you got support from your coach and team-mates, sometimes not. We were big boys and could handle it. Fun might have been poked at the lad with the dodgy first touch or fashion sense but it didn't matter on the park. At that point we were a team and everyone stuck together. Background or personality didn’t matter and rarely did I ever witness anything get out of hand. And I was treated brilliantly by almost all the people I worked with. There but for the grace of God it seems… With more specific regard to the SFA’s report, as a young teenager, sexual abuse wasn't something I knew much, if anything, about. I’ve always felt my upbringing was probably as normal as one can have: a loving family, a council house and an estate full of friends (and enemies) with few worries as we explored life with the relative freedom most kids have. I was naïve enough to think when you're in your mid-teens, you don't really worry about much other than homework and a new spot appearing before a school disco. I didn't understand for others it was physical, mental and sexual abuse. But that immaturity was exactly why we all need protecting at that age. Even now, as a father of two kids approaching their teenage trials and tribulations, I don't think I'll ever fully realise how tough it must be for some young people. Times appear somewhat different now and kids seem to be older than their years but other complexities develop: social media and online threats mean regular reminders to my girls explaining the dangers out there are a necessity. Embarrassing such talks may occasionally be but happen they must. Decades past may not have seen parent/child relationships so open or so liberal. Reading the horror stories from people I knew from my time in the game make that clear and it's tragic that so many have suffered and continued to do so because the education wasn't there and modern (though still imperfect) safeguards weren't in place. To that end, culpability can genuinely be tricky to apportion. First and foremost, the blame lies with those that blighted the sport (and society as a whole) but if there's a case to answer for others involved then answer it they must. And the colour of the shirt or standing in the game should not matter to us either. When I stopped playing football twenty years ago, I bought a season ticket for Ibrox as I finally had the time to follow follow my childhood team and I still love doing this two decades on. The pride I have in my club is immense and whilst times have been tough for the last ten years, our form this season and the chance of renewed success has taken away some of the stress and frustration of being unable to attend games because of the pandemic. No matter, I love supporting my club whether at Ibrox or from my RTV subscription. However, that doesn’t mean I can’t see the faults within it. Be it historic bigotry, financial mismanagement or abuse of young people, I’d argue it is a key part of being a supporter to question the club and look for improvement in all areas. In that vein, slowly but surely, the club is becoming more inclusive over the years and I’d like to think that post-2012, today’s and future custodians will be more mindful of its fiscal obligations. I’ve also no doubt the child protections and safeguards we now have are second to none. Even so, Rangers is not perfect and it’s not a weakness to admit such. In that sense, how Rangers react to their part in the SFA report is important. Yes, the club have every right to use legal care in their approach and to protect their (our?) reputation. But we also have a moral duty to examine any allegations and act accordingly if, as may be the case, there were genuine failings under our responsibilities. If that is the case, and where such failings are proven, apologies must be made along suitable reparations. We must do the right thing and be seen to do so. Let us lead from the front on that: no prevarications about Oldco or pointing the finger elsewhere, just solemn acknowledgement where appropriate whilst ensuring we have processes in place so such abuse can never happen again. When our club almost ceased to exist in darker days ten years ago, supporters were keen to cement the idea of Rangers ‘then, now and forever’. That was an admirable slogan during a difficult period to try and ensure we all moved on together. It’s certainly a message that resonated with me and one we should return to if or when any historic abuse failings are discussed. And doing that should be a priority not an after-thought. The past may not always be something we can be proud of but if there’s an opportunity to address our mistakes, grab it we must. We cannot control what happened to these people then but we can do so now and forever.

Jesus. Grow a pair or turn the volume off. The best response to these 2 is to wrap up title 55.