alexscottislegend

In which case he is tailor-made for the Scotland job. After Levein's latest squad omitting fletcher,S. and Goodwillie and including yet another English player it can't come soon enough for me.

I agree. If we hadn't commented how long before it would have been turned into more anti-RFC bile. Don't give our enemies any more ammo. than they need.

In which case surely there's some sort of offence he could be charged with, like incitement. Remember Boruc was nearly charged for a much more innocuous act IIRC.

The Fleck situation is baffling. I think many of us have forgotten just how great the hype was. He was even touted as a certainty for the GB Olympic team by a London newspaper. Still young enough to be considered in terms of potential, though, but at all costs we must avoid an Adam situation. Remember John Spencer, Charlie Miller to name but two?

What, after what you've been saying about doubting his bid?

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/sport/Tom-English-39On-a-day.6764352.jp?articlepage=3 Not much to add to that. Good article from someone not normally a friend to us.

'Wavetower' - is this some sort of joke/inference that there is Dubai financial involvement somewhere along the line?

Yet they constantly see US as the establishment club, they honestly think the BBC and the media are biased v. them. I agree, though, we need our friends in positions of power - as cotter says - to step forward. And maybe a few celebrity fans would help; offhand I can only think of Graeme Dott. surely there must be more than that?

Yeh, but the status quo is NOT an option. Just means further paring down and even poorer quality than hitherto coming into Ibrox. If Whyte walks, we are stuck with LBG. If Dave King was really an option he had plenty of chances before now; in any event I'm not happy with us being linked with someone described as a criminal by the SA authorities. Surely Johnston's misgivings are not that serious. What axe does he have to grind actually? He is retiring from the board soon.

Your post raises some interesting conundrums which have always bothered me as someone who has not lived in Scotland for over 40 years now. As a life-long Rangers supporter who would I vote for? Is the natural home the Conservative and UNIONIST party? Yet what if I don't believe in rampant free enterprise capitalism? Well, there's the Labour Party, championed by Sir Alex, Govan lad and all, but as you point out it has become infiltrated by Green Nationalists (not Socialists because the Provos et al are anything but socialist, being republicans first and last) and even the UK Labour Party have long ditched Clause 4 as an ideal and got into bed with the market system. So we come to the SNP. I'm proud to be Scottish AND British but there is a school of thought which seems to equate the SNP with republicanism instead of simply being a useful safety valve, an alternative to the other big two. I remember being verbally abused by a fellow Rangers supporter because I dared to express some tentative support for the SNP. I guess what it boils down to is this: Is it a mutually exclusive concept to be a Gers supporter and a Socialist? Is it mutually exclusive to be a Labour supporter and a Unionist? What would happen if the SNP referendum voted for independence (unlikely I know)? Would we Gers fans still fly the Union flag? Why could we not adopt the St Andrews Cross and flaunt it as a counterweight to those who identify with a foreign nation? Am I building up a false dichotomy here? I see Keltic as a Scottish AND British club just as Millwall is an English club with Scottish roots. I'm afraid I cannot write to Marge Proops or Clare Rayner as they are deceased but truly I am confused.

Apologies if anyone has already posted this: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/editor-s-picks/sir-david-murray-sells-stake-in-rangers-for-one-pound-1.1100047 Mind you it was Darrell King who broke news of the Florida guy - name escapes me.

So you'd be happy if Paul Murray had done some sort of deal with the (very dodgy) Dave King? We have no other alternatives.

Hear! Hear! I would love to see that displayed over the tunnel or somewhere in the ground much like the 'This is Anfield' sign.

Nobody would object to Lennon applauding his own fans but he was clearly directing his taunt at the Gers fans. I dread to think what would have happened if Diouf had made any kind of gesture to the Bheasts.

It's about time we officially adopted the slogan: 'The quintessential British club.'

Yeh, I get your point but it's the kind of thing THEY have been doing to us. And Lennon chose to make a provocative gesture (for that is what it was) at the end of this game at the end of this of all weeks. Any other time we could laugh it off; and he called it 'humour' Mmmm...

Great article. Liked 'The Last Night of the Proms' reference! And the ref. to banners written in a foreign language!The club must get the best lawyers and blow this Uefa nonsense away once and for all.

I'd dispute that TBH. Where's your evidence?

One word - DIGNITY. Burns had it, Lemon does not.

At last an outbreak of common sense. When I was still living in Glasgow in the sixties, it was not uncommon for there to be running street battles after every OF game. When the game featured on national tv it was only to report the number of arrests; the score was often not reported by the UK media. It is FAR more peaceful nowadays; trouble is the easily offended have upped their narrow-minded agenda. The only song one could hear sung today was GSTQ just after the penalty save. The radio commentators heard nothing untoward. So UEFA - Rangers supporters in establishment support shocker just before the Royal Wedding. Sectarianism my arse.

Does that mean you're suspicious of Whyte? Even though his source claimed they'd put 52 m straight into the bank? LBG are happy, MIH are happy. What's left?

Dave King is still under investigation from SARS. I do not see how he can make any money available when the SA authorities can freeze his capital. With the sort of cash he is said to have he would have made his move before now, surely?

What - that AJ says nothing ? Or that he goes?

I'm confused now. Just read Leggat's blog and I can see reasons for the directors' caution; but who is the other 'interested' party? Whyte is one - is the other a possible management buy-out? If so, do they have the readies?

Old enough to remember Millar and Brand et al! Welcome.