26th of foot

I decided to renew my Bar'72, now Club'72 season ticket for two seasons. Further, I took out a MyGers VIP membership. It was a fight to give the Club the best part of £4 grand. I have no beef with either of the girls appointed to deal with the newly branded hospitality, they were both helpful and patient. My seat, which I have sat in since the start of Bar'72, is on the halfway line. I knew by renewing for two seasons, I was being an awkward embuggerance, deliberately so. The corporate wallahs want banks of several seats, and they want the better ones. So, you receive the call from a senior administrator at the club, asking for a chat. No names, no pack drill and all that; I tell him no chat required, quite comfortable. Although, given all I have been promised, where is my Rangers TV code, and, the MyGers welcome pack, and my my Lanyard? I explain, I have formed the Lanyard Loyal RSC and have been appointed Chair of said club. I cannot be seen to Chair meetings without wearing my Lanyard. It's an affront to my dignity. I am told the club don't do satire. If I could be bothered, I would have asked what do the club do? Instead, I returned my telephone to it's receiver. I am forming a new club, 'the No Rangers TV Code, reduced to viewing illegal streams Loyal RSC'. Catchy I know, I wouldn't be surprised if I am appointed Chair. Before any Gersnetter gives me grief, please keep in mind, they started it. I too, would welcome a return to the cosy atmosphere provided by, "the finest modulated build facility"(Martin Bain) ie the Ticket Office Portakabin.

In all aspects of the game, from Administration through to Media, being part of ra Sellik assembled raft, is a guaranteed standard of life. Buy a better house, go on better holidays, raise a family, be a two/three car household, ................... etc. It's ra Sellik way, heavily influenced by organisations emanating from Sicily.

Absolutely. It's the price of entry into the PQ Gang Hut.

Pacific Quay versus Salford. On Friday morning last, Rangers supporters awoke to lurid headlines generated by a Daily Record exclusive. Klaxon Jackson had penned a piece claiming Rangers were subject to a SFA probe predicated upon Rangers fielding up to nine players without Covid-19 negative results, against Motherwell during Wednesday evening's pre-season friendly. Stand-in Chair of the SFA, Mike Mulraney was progressing the probe as Rangers may have breached testing protocols? PQ loved the story and copied it word for word, placing the fantasy on their website and Scots CeeFax news service as lead item. At this point, we should consider Klaxon Jackson. Humanity owes Keith, he allowed Apollo 15's moon buggy to be trial tested on his face for a year, back in the day. A legacy of florid, corned beef complexion is coupled with a chip on his shoulder. The company doing the testing for ten of the Scots Premiership clubs(including Rangers) is English based, Signpost take 48 hrs to receive, test, and return results. St Mirren had seven positive tests readdressed to six false positives. The leak is at Signpost, the Record paid for confidential information? We should be told. Spiteful Keith's impatience appeared in print. At the same time, BBC Salford took a different take on the story during Friday morning. On it's CeeFax football pages and football website, it reported, "the SFA has written to Rangers, Motherwell, and Hibs reference the possibility of a breach in Covid-19 testing". Note, the expanse to three clubs involved, the omission of Mike Mulraney, and no assumption of guilt. By midday, PQ had revised their effort, Mulraney's name disappeared and the Dundee United game at Auchinhowie was the focus. The story disappeared from CeeFax news, and became the last item on the website. Step forward Chris McLaughlin, he did a piece to camera for BBC Scotland's lunchtime news bulletin. It was outside St Mirren's ground and focused on false positives. Rangers were now an aside at the end of the broadcast, "meanwhile, it has emerged Rangers face an SFA probe into whether the club may have breached testing protocols". Again, PQ's website changed to a single sentence, "As many as nine Rangers players may have played in a bounce game against Dundee United on Wednesday without having received negative Covid-19 test results". By early evening PQ had dropped the item, some 4-5 hours after BBC Salford had arrived at the same decision. Mulraney had been clearly over exposed by both Klaxon and PQ. As usual, several hours too late, professional Arab Yahoo, Jum Spence came to the party and had this line on his Twitter feed, "Dundee United have a right to be absolutely raging". May I remind PQ, and Salford, the Daily Record has had a commercial arrangement with Sellik for several years(they print and publish both ra Sellik View and the matchday programme). PQ are vicTIMS of their own making, recently they decided not to attribute stories on the website to Journos. It has become like Sportscene ie no credits. PQ's Online Producer is Stefan Bienkowski. A former Sellik 'zine Editor and Blogger. Who can forget his credited story on the PQ website in December'19? Stefan demanded the cancellation of the then upcoming General Election because on the night of the poll, "15,000 Celtic supporters will be in Romania, and those missing votes could crucially effect the election outcome". The next time Stand-in Chair of the SFA, Mike Mulraney wants a probe, I suggest he starts with both Stefan and Klaxon. Use two yards of fibre optic without lubrication.

It's been 8 weeks since Michael Stewart last appeared on BBC Scotland. His last several contributions were as an outraged Foundation of Hearts member, "the decision to relegate both Hearts and Thistle is unjust". Mikey now works for Sellik TV, will they allow him broadcast time to protest this latest decision to relegate both clubs? Further, Mikey was telling us that Neil Doncaster, Rod(the Fraud) McKenzie, and Shifty McGifty were "good guys", undeserving of Rangers emanating ire. Does Michael share Neil's delight at today's decision? We should be told.

Will the SFA drop their charges against both clubs? SFA stand-in Chair is Mike Mulraney.

Hearts and Thistle have lost their arbitration case. Relegated and no compensation. Where do both go now?

Doctor Kivlichan played for Rangers, transferred to ra Sellik, then returned to Rangers. On his return to the Light Blues, he was quoted as saying, "it was good to be home". As for Kos, he possessed the best tone, and our separated brethren are notoriously tone deaf.

Since 1888, it's been an insatiable consummation. Six Irish immigrant families, mostly Publicans decide to form a football club, inspired by Edinburgh based Irish immigrants that had formed Hibernian. They found land, rented it for a few months, and filled in the quarry with over 200, 000 voluntary carts of soil/aggregate. a Football field was created, two Grandstands built(one privately owned by the Glass family), and a velodrome installed. Two successful football clubs were invited to play an exhibition match, Renton and Hibs provided the entree, subsequently divided into better halves, they became ra Sellik. The original Hibs were dissolved and Renton succumbed to Junior football. It's how it began. A club that these days claims it was open to all at it's founding, set out in the late 1880s/early 1890s to morally compromise rc players to play for the rc club. This included players originally at Rangers such as Neil McCallum and Doc Kivlichan. The opprobrium faced by the early Sellik was a result of continuous stealing of other clubs' players. Such arrogance so casually displayed was an anathema. The epitome was a priest in Falkirk smuggling a Falkirk FC player(who was rc) out of the town in a hand cart, during silent hours to meet Sellik officials in the morning. Appropriation was in with the building blocks. In my lifetime, ra Sellik have stolen Liverpool's 'You'll never walk alone' and claimed it as their own. Producers at BBC Scotland made the documentary, not telling the listenership they were BBC Producers. They told of the emotion singing the song, visualising their deceased mothers whilst belting out lyrics about suicide. Barcelona FC were next, they were more than a club. However, ra Sellik's sense of vicTIMhood was such, they were more worthy of the statement ie ra Sellik had suffered 40 years of subjugation by Franco. The support wanted to believe it, it became so, as it had for almost 100 years before. Cultural appropriation is their rite of passage. The latest sack of pysh is His Bobness of Marley was a mad, mental Sellik supporter. Yep, a born'n'bred Jamaican from the blue mountains, became hooked on ra green;n;grey hooped horrors in the early/mid sixties by tuning into the BBC World Service. Lying in his cot, he had foresaken rock steady and ska blasted by Prince Buster's sound system, to hear tales of Seezur and Jinky. They crave it, it, it's what they want, it's how it should be. Why? This well trod path of least resistance does not belong to Yahoos in exclusivity. My introduction to Bob was in 1973, he appeared with the Wailers on the Old Grey Whistle Test. I bought 'Catch a Fire' the following weekend. I was in a world of Bob, Bunny, Peter Tosh, Family Man, .....etc. It confirmed my preferred prejudice, Island Records also had Free on the label, and who amplified better tone than Paul Kossoff? My first year at Uni' in 1974 began most days in a flat in Great George Street with 'Stir it Up', first track, second side of the Wailers first Island album. In June'76, we took the Union mini-bus to Bellevue, Manchester to see, more appropriately worship at the altar of Bob. A haze of ganja enveloped the auditorium, but no mention of ra Sellik. Bob's wikipedia tells of a life long support for Santos, he loved Pele. Bob was raised catholic but converted to Rastafarianism. He played football constantly whilst in London but never journeyed 400 miles to watch ra Sellik. He passed 40 years past without mentioning the bad word. What encourages the Yahoos conviction, other than desire? I would encourage the separated entity to continue their next cultural appropriation by focusing their attention upon the Bob tribute act, 'Big Jah Knew and the Wail, Wailers'. Their A cappella rendition of Three little boys by my doorstep, singing sweet songs .... will blow your cheese. Martin Luther King Junior did lots of good things, why don't ra Sellik appropriate him?

To my mind, Alfie has been gone since the turn of the year. His form before shut down was sensational. I have watched all four friendlies this pre-season and he looks off it. He is contributing in link up play, but the venom in front of goal is not quite there. Yesterday against Coventry, he had opportunities for at least a double. I think the manager has him gone too. My worry is we are six days from starting the season and Defoe's hamstring scan result is due tomorrow. We could be going into Pittodrie and Leverkusen without a recognised striker. If Alfie is for the off, he goes with my every bon chance. He has been an excellent leader of the Rangers line.

More appropriately, the voice of A football.

The Nuremberg Column. Gordon Waddell must be fcuking incredulous? Who knew, Hugh Knew!

I suspect Nuremberg Hugh might have woken late this morning, to regret that late night contribution to social media? There's only one worse action than Tweeting on an empty head, that's Tweeting on an empty head after drinking a bottle of robust red.

Remember David running through on to a ball in a pre-season friendly at Roker Park, he didn't hesitate, lobbed the keeper from thirty yards. He wheeled and joined the Bears in celebration. His joy was our joy, it's how we should remember him.

Pre-season 1990, we played Coventry City at Rugby Park. Terry Butcher had just been appointed the sky blues manager. The game was the final of a tournament and we won the cup, on penalties?

Right on cue. Janey Godley has once again taken to the newspapers to give her hilarious take on Boris the PM visiting Scotland today. Of course, all done within NAF(Nicola Approved Fun) parameters. Janey has decreed Boris to be, "a big cowardy shitey bag". Comedy, when will Janey start?

Chaps, As long as Craig and Frankie have no concerns for Gersnet. I have no problems with anyone on Gersnet doing what they wish to do with my contributions. The original idea with this thread was to develop a Rangers Tax Case Blog type of thing. It's a testimony, a diary, a collation of information, a collection of quotes, ......................... etc. Overall, it's a reference of the lack of service provided to a section of License Fee payers. I am grateful to a collection of regular Gersnetters over the twelve/thirteen years; Ian, Bill, Buster, Zappa, Compo, ............. etc too many to name. Further, lots more folks than myself have made most valuable contributions, and deserve every credit. In the words of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead".

The vast majority of Rangers supporters are paying their BBC License Fees, this week PQ informed us of the various football packages planned for the coming season. Friday evening's live coverage of the Championship continues, presented by the unhesitatingly Sellik supporting, goes ten rounds with the English language, Leanne Crichton and Jonathan Sutherland. Sportscene is returning to a one hour slot on Saturday evening, presented by Dandy Don, Jonathan Sutherland. Sportscene Sunday when live, will be presented by St Boo Buddie, Steven Thompson. BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound remains in the presentational hands of AmDram Quine, Richard Gordon. Sunday's Sportsound passes to claret and amber obsessed, Jane Lewis. Where's Mikey? Has Michael Stewart graduated to the big school playground at Sellik TV? It goes without saying, all production will be in the safe hands of Sellik supporting Producers.

In Scotland, there is a direct correlation between the rise on nationalism and Janey Godley. We are told consistently that Janey is funny, she has Nicola's approval. I find her to be excruciating. A modicum of presentation("just a pyoor wee wumin fae the east end o' Glesgah"), but no content. There are worse, not many, but special mention to Janey's privately educated daughter, Ashleigh. A dozen years attending Hutchesons' Grammar School for Girls' has produced no presentation and no content. I suspect the Malaprop Sisters have the Janey stamp of approval? The rest of us will have to continue our search for fires in orphanages.

Apparently, Neil Doncaster insisted upon verifying received diktat from Putin being verified by Peter, who gave the go ahead reference 'Well's Covid results being e-mailed to Dundee's account. Retrieval from Dundonian spam is being conducted by 'well's Declan Gallagher, who refused an IQ test. Today's Scottish football.

Apparently, Neymar had a war of words with Lennon on the stroke of half time. Neil was looking to pick up Klimala to hit Neymar; according to Mikey, Klimala has been looking sharp.

Lost in France. Tonight's game finished PSG 4 ra Sellik 0. Sellik TV's Michael Stewart was on message, Edouard was relishing the experience, Ajer remains a £50 million player, and the Ref' was lenient with some of the PSG tackles on Christie. Michael did not explain why PSG decided to lock out the tiny traveling band of Yahoos? Still, four going on seven or eight; superb display of formation social distancing from the green'ngrey hooped horrors.

Recent accounts, most without any other comment contained. The hollow man, the straw man, the Trojan Horse, flying a kite, ............ etc. Many names and the tactic is as old as dirt. Individual and collective discipline is required across both club and fans. The last day has seen Chris McLaughlin, Catriona Stewart(Gregor Cox), and Angela Haggerty have enjoyed a target rich environment.

Identification of the Enemy. During my professional training, I was always told by the old sweats that the HARDEST thing was to identify the enemy. There was no point in returning fire until there had been a clear identification and a subsequent fire control order. In reality, it proved a lot more difficult than in training, even with those big anecdotal indicators. Gersnetters are firing off in every direction, the enemy has wandered off with a smile on their faces. I suggest a weapons tight situation be applied, until someone identifies the trolls.

The Petroltank Cup? In the week of announcement that Chris Sutton has joined Michael Stewart and John Hartson as Sellik TV's new commentary team, the big Englishman has once again been described as, 'cheeky'. Chris decided to hide his sneering disappointment at Sellik's poor performances in French friendlies, by being disrespectful to a couple of football sponsors. Veolia put up the cup that Rangers won, in opposition to Nice, Lyon, and ra Sellik. Violia are I believe a waste management firm, but still they paid for clubs to travel, their accommodation, and a trophy. Chris utilised his razor-sharp wit to say, "Rangers can place that trophy beside their petroltank cup". Petrofac are a service provider to the oil industry. Again, like Violia, they provided much needed sponsorship to Scottish football at a time when investment is hard to come by. Being disrespectful is okay, if you are sticking it on the H-u-ns and you know Hollicom has got your back. The Green Brigade are anti-racism protesters and activists, Chris is cheeky. Chris has an opportunity this coming season, he can come off ra Sellik TV gantry, travel 20-30 yards, where both Shifty McGifty and Rod the Fraud Mckenzie sit in the Main Stand. Those two are Chair and Secretary of the SPFL Board, he can ask if they have a sponsor going forward with the SPFL? Now, his Sellik TV colleague, Michael Stewart was at pains during his last BBC Scotland appearance(seven weeks ago) to tell the listeners that Murdoch, Neil, and Rod were all throughly decent guys. They won't mind Chris sticking his big nose into their half time pie and bovril? Hollicom can arrange it, Tom Boyd can host the love-in. It's the cheeky description that grates; from memory, Chris is a declared bankrupt, an adulterer, and absent father. Hollicom smoke and mirrors are wonderful. Last week, Damian Duff did a piece in the press about his time as a 16 year old apprentice at Blackburn Rovers. It was the time of Rovers being crowned Premiership kings and playing in the Champions League. Shearer and Sutton were the club's front two. He talks of the hazing that came the way of apprentices, remarked in today's world some of what happened was worthy of jail time. Cleaning boots and toilets, scrubbing dressing room and shower floors, and carrying the hampers. Duff singled out Sutton for being their main tormentor. The example he provided was of Sutton crapping in a plastic bag and leaving it lying on the dressing room floor. Now, I understand what Hollicom mean by, 'cheeky'. Another beneficiary of Hollicom-speak last week, was Glasgow City Council employee, Stephen McIntosh. His duties include raising the Saltire above the City Chambers every morning. He decided to swap the national standard for a Sellik nine-in-a-row flag, and hoisted the pysh-stained rhag above George Square. One would expect nationalist Convenor, Susan Aitken to be anguished at the relegation of the beloved Saltire? No, she chose to go with the Hollicom interpretation, 'flag-gag'.