26th of foot

Thomson is a genuine fcukwit. Seriously. During my days of tertiary education, we all tuned into BBC Radio 4 to hear the six part serialisation of 'the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. We craved an answer to the 'Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'. Of course, the answer was '42', what else could it be? On the island of Ireland, the republican sensitivity continually whispers '32'; as in a 32 county Ireland. Thomson is being played for a clown and I suspect the size 25(or should that be 32) shoes are a comfortable fit.

Thomson mocks the Ibrox Disaster by posting his 'Walking Away' video. Channel 4's Regional Commissioning Editor, Stuart Cosgrove provides mitigation for his colleague on BBC Radio Scotland's 'Off the Ball'. Thomson apologises for said video if people are offended by it. It's an exercise in sniggering faux sincerity. A couple of days later, Thomson is Tweeting and referring to Rangers supporters as, "Daleks". It's another in-joke utilised by Rangers haters, Daleks don't do stairs. I think it's time the club contacted the survivors and families of those that perished on the 2nd January'71 and ask the collective take on Thomson's continuing insensitivity.

Questions, questions, questions, ............................. Honestly, I am beyond questions, it is time to assemble a firing squad. The big hill at Bellahouston Park would make an effective bullet stop, the grass plain adjacent contains no ricochet inducing factors, and the park is well serviced by public transport. Pick a morning and assemble Whyte, Murray, Grier, Duff and Phelps, ...................................... etc and let's get it over with in several minutes. Any volunteers wishing to participate will be given a couple of minutes weapon handling instruction and I propose we invoice the families of those shot for the cost of rounds used. Do I have a seconder?

Change one line to : We're up to our eyes in BBC lies. Sing it loud, sing it proud. Can you imagine the various media discussions once the changed line is explained?

I believe Frank Rijkard also said, "Neil Lennon plays like he's wearing a balaclava". Maybe that's a false memory?

That particular quote came after the Ibrox 0-0 draw. The anti-football quote originated from the then Barca manager after they drew 0-0 with ra Sellik in the Nou Camp 2002.

Yep. BBC Scotland kept a cameraman and Chris McLaughlin in Barca the next day. They filmed said wife in the placa de Catalunya(already cleaned and cleared) and she was given 2-3 minutes to level her accusations. McLaughlin pointed out there had been no arrests. She became incensed, she had witnessed several cases of public urination, a Rangers supporter punch his wife/partner, and a bar had been trashed. All unsubstantiated.

We last played in Barcelona five years ago. The Rangers travelling support was estimated at between 25,000-30,000. I believe it remains a record for an away support in a CL group match. Despite such numbers, no arrests. This fact disappointed BBC Scotland in particular and they scratched around for a negative angle. The Admin' of well known Yahoo website resides in Barcelona, his wife is a Catalan native. She e-mailed BBC Radio Scotland's Tom Morton, he was hosting his early afternoon music show. Her correspondence was read out on air, "the litter being generated by the largely drunk Rangers support is appaling. The wonderful centre piece of the city, the placa de catalunya is being trashed". Unsurprisingly, the next few hours of newsbullitins lead with the item on the extent of litter being generated in Barcelona. I wonder if Radio Scotland will provide regular updates on Barca's litter today?

Reference BBC Scotland. Next week, ra Sellik travel to Barcelona to play a CL match. No doubt, several thousand hooped horrors will make the same journey to lend support. Five years past, Rangers made the same journey. An incredible 25,000 Bears travelled too, I believe the highest ever travelling support for a CL group game. During the day of the game, BBC Scotland appeared to be miffed that NO arrests had been made and desperately scratched around to find a negative angle. The then News Editor, Diarmid O'Hara(now Newsnicht Editor) decided to interupt Tom Morton's mid-afternoon music show to inform the listenership that the travelling Rangers support in Barca were generating record levels of LITTER. Yep, litter; we were leaving the Placa de Catalunya in a terrible state of disarray. BBC Scotland ran that headline on both radio and TV as the lead item over the next dozen hours. I wonder if anyone from Pacific Quay CSC will be designated Chief Litter Correspondent this coming Tuesday?

Wonderful, a statement that contains foresight and penetrative thought. I wonder where such a statement puts Phil McHundrednames and his, "Celtic own the famine" pysh?

Over £17 million Mr Sheened. It's a veneer, as I suspect the seperated brethern have been indulging in considerable mischief.

As of this morning, I believe 46,000 tickets had been sold.

Monday afternoon, Phil McThreeorisitfournames was tweeting hot gossip that Craig Whyte was back on the Rangers scene. Yesterday, he produced several paragraphs highlighting the exact details that BBC Scotland have released today. Once again, Mad Phil has been included in the loop and I suspect directly from a senior designation within Pacific Quay CSC.

BBC Scotland's Chief Football Reporter will be right on the case, as soon as Peter Lawwell tells him.

Stewart Regan is burst. Peter tells the usual on message broadcast and print media crew to prepare the ground. Peter will tell Eric to headhunt another Chief Executive who will do as telt. Peter will tell the crew to get behind the new CE, until he tells them, he/she is burst. Ewing Grahame is a cnut.

When complaints were made about his posted/tweeted piece of John Greig's statue walking off his plinth. He was forced to publically apologise; however, Channel 4's regional commissioner, Stuart Cosgrove had him on BBC Scotland's, 'Off the Ball' for 20 minutes to profer mitigation. Cosgrove prompted Thompson throughout, truly sickening.

A smoke bomb is initiated by a detonator. As a pyrotechnic, it has a minimum safety distance of 30 ms. They are an unecessary nuisance that could morph into an occasional danger.

In light of today's not guilty verdicts delivered by the SFA reference the displaying of the offensive zombie banner at ra Stydome, Sellik's expression of, "surprise and disappointment that the case made it to a hearing" is truly sickening. The banner depicted an inverted evolutionary process, a gravestone, and a zombie being shot by a balaclava clad gunman. The toted weapon was an AR 15 Armalite. Obviously, only the sensitivities of ra Yahoos count. To compound this, Jim ra Tim Delahunt on Radio Snyde tonight explained to a fellow hooped horror of a caller that the banner was okay up to the point of depictation of a weapon. The evolutionary process was funny, the gravestone is a fact, but the shooting aspect is wrong. Maybe it's just me but I find the evolutionary aspect to be the most offensive, and ra Yahoos have plenty of previous in this regard. Dr Josef Goebbels would approve of Snyde, it's only a few years past that Keevins was allowed to continually compare Ibrox on a Euro night as, "akin to a Nuremberg rally". Yep, four flags(one union, one saltire, and two with the club crest) being waved as the PA blasted several film theme tunes; "was akin to a Nuremberg rally". Despair does not begin to cover it.

D'Art', Maintaining your discipline, well done you. No doubt, conditioned by legendary Royal Navy adherence to Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash. We, reticulating amid the Airborne Snake cast an envious glance at the fun you bootnecks enjoyed. Two out of three ain't bad, I hear the rum was undrinkable? Pegasus Loyal RSC.

The 'Rip it up and start again' analogy is a good one. Thirty-five years ago, I wandered into the John Street Union(Strathclyde Uni') and watched a band of young blades attempt syncopated rhythm combined with a soaring baritone vocal. Edwyn Collins had just formed Orange Juice and I believe were the iconic Postcard Records first signing? The sound of young Scotland first achieved recognition with Orange Juice's Rip it up and start again. Edwyn Collins achieved far greater success as a Producer and was at the height of his fame in 2005 when he suffered a double cerebral hemorrhage. Paralysed on the upper right side of his body and unable to speak, he began the slow process back. Unable to play or even strum a guitar, he decided to rip it up and start again. He took up electric piano. He was a trained graphic artist and right handed, he retrained himself to sketch with his left hand. Years of speech therapy allowed him to recover his voice and last year he recorded another album. Rip it up and start again is entirely appropriate to Rangers, perhaps the Ibrox PA announcer can be persuaded to air the tune pre-match? Although in these times, we might have to credit the track to 'Citrus Jiuce'?

In 30 seconds he went from succulent lamb to trucculent bam.

This is an excellent article, the corrolation between Andrew Marr's quote and our experience of BBC Scotland is direct.

Two O'Clock.

The ground was prepared, the usual suspects welcomed heavy artillery to the fray. A reporter of international standing, survived the backstreets of Basra and took cover in the componds of Afghanistan; Channel 4's Alex Thomson's attention had been turned to the blight of succulent lamb journalism. Well, he came, he saw, and promptly made an arse of himself. His appearance on Radio Snyde was comedy gold, he unfolded an A4 piece of paper and read a perceived threat from a false e-mail account. Further, he informed the listenership that he was passing said piece of paper to the police. The e-mail addy, 'leggoisblotto.com' might have gave it away; but ra Polis announced a day later, 'no further enquiries'. Alex was losing face, laughed out of town, and even those that previously lionised him were now suffering collective embarrassment. Spiteful Alex then tweeted and distributed by e-mail a YouTube piece of animation showing John Greig's statue stepping down from the plynth and walking away. It was a so called piss-take on McCoist's, "we don't do walking away". The memorial to the 66 Rangers supporters who failed to return from an old firm New Year's game was deliberately sullied. Alex Thomson was forced to apologise unreservedly and quite rightly so, he had been played as a useful idiot. However, Thomson was then given a platform on BBC Radio Scotland that very week of the apology. Cosgrove, Channel 4's Regional Commissioning Editor brought him on to 'On the Ball' to allow considerable mitigation. The unreserved apology morphed into if you construe it as offensive then yep, I apologise. Cosgrove prompted him throughout, unintentional and misinterpreted. This week's issue of Private Eye spears Thomson : Alex Thomson's valiant doorstep efforts to force Kelvin McKenzieto talk on camera for Channel 4 news about his coverage of Hillsborough swiftly became an internet hit complete with the inevitable accoutrements of YouTube remixes, debates on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show and outraged complaints to Ofcom. But was Thomson really the ideal man for the job given that just three months previously he had to issue an unreserved apology via the Channel 4 website for posting a link to a video which he admitted could be, "interpreted as disrespectful to the memory" to those who died in the Ibrox Disaster of 1971? Sixty-six Rangers fans were killed in a crush on the terraces of the Glasgow stadium in what until Hillsborough, was the worst loss of life at a British football ground. Private Eye's higlighting Thomson's appropriateness is something the Bears' support should utilise as a building block in our fight against the continuing hatred. Cosgrove's complivcity should NOT be forgotten either, the very next week on On the Ball, Irvine Welsh spent an hour on the show plugging his latest work. Big Stu' did not ask Welsh's motivation for the naming of his late 70s band in Edinburgh, 'Stairway 13'. I wonder why?