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Looks like we're stuck with him anyway. Arsenal’s Gedion Zelalem extends Rangers loan until end of the season, confirms Mark Warburton Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/27/arsenals-gedion-zelalem-extends-rangers-loan-until-end-of-the-season-confirms-mark-warburton-5586574/#ixzz3vbpDm2BQ

Obviously he WAS certain and the linesman backed him up by going to the bye line, which is the indication that he considers it was inside the box. I've watched it countless times, thanks Ian. From the angle I was at, I and most people around me thought it was a penalty resulting from an unnecessary and poor tackle. When you see it at first on the replay it looks quite a bit outside and on the close up it IS outside but not by much. The referee was close but almost directly behind, so not the best angle to judge. I think he was fooled by the fact that both players ended up inside the box. The fact that Wilson is on the ground with his left, tackling foot well inside the box MAY have been the deciding factor. The linesman on the far side is about 50 yards away, there are two players obscuring his view and he is also watching for offside. I'm not making excuses for them just pointing out the practicalities; it was a wrong decison; but bad decisons happen; we may or may not have got lucky at the end of the game when one came our way. Their penalty is much more significant because we missed ours. If we had scored then it would be a different story. But Falkirk won the game at the beginning of the second half when Mark Kerr was dictating play from the centre circle and despite Law's valient efforts late on, we couldn't get level. We need to start v Hibs the way we finished v Falkirk.

I think the angle is really deceptive on this one and perhaps I need to head back to specsavers but it didn't look to be more than a foot or two at most outside to me. But no argument about it being a bad decision. I also agree that on the Rangers penalty, you cannot see from the camera angle if the Falkirk no.8 handles and since the referee was in a similar position I doubt he could see it clearly either. Only a camera behind the goal would have shown it.

I do think that Rangers should set our own high standards and challenge others to reach them, whining about a refereeing mistake whe we've had more than a few bad days at the office recently, doesn't cut it for me. I'm sorry but that's a bit too difficult a concept for me. To which "grown up behaviour" are you referring, in what way is it harmful and what is it exactly that you don't like about it?

It was on the referees diagonal, so it was nothing to do with the linesman in terms of the actual decision, although the linesman appeared to agree/confirm by moving quickly to the bye line thus indicating in his opinion it was inside the box or possibly he was just doing what he perceived as the "right thing" if he wasn't sure by supporting the referee's decision. I was more or less in line with it and at first it looked like a penalty to me but on the replay you can see the foul is just outside the box and the player's momentum carries him into the box. It was the referee's shout and he got it wrong, it was marginal, it wasn't an "appalling decision". It was close but the referee was wrong. What Warburton should have said was that if we had taken our chances and defended better, it wouldn't have mattered. We should be dignified and magnaminous in defeat and not parrot what others have done in the past.

No problem at all.

Rangers advised me that and after further enquiries I went over there tonight and took these pictures. I'm pretty sure the two wreaths at the front were not there last Saturday. The one on the left has a card, the one on the right does not (it may have blown away). There are some purple flowers with the white, so I think it must be the one. None of the others come close to fitting the description.

Giving away some clues as to your age there CB

I never had any pretensions as a footballer Bearman and even in my wildest dreams I wouldn't have the temerity to instal myself in the successful teams of the Waddell/Wallace era or any other era for that matter. When we played football in the playground of my "rugby" school if there was an even number they put me in goals, if there was an odd number I got to be the ref.

Tyson Fury has one apparently.

There is a similar story about Willie Thornton, who was as a reserve was on £1 a week and got a telegram instructing him to report to Ibrox for an evening first team match. His mother shined his boots and off he went. When Struth saw his shiny boots, he is reputed to have said, from now on you're on £2 a week, anyone who can shine his boots like that deserves a wage rise.

Vice versa would be a possible given I was born 9 months after his arrival here However if that had been true, I might have had some football genes and played for the Club rather than being a mere whistler.

Thanks for clarifying the details which I assume come from a Johny Hubbard book; although the £1,000 does sound a bit on the high side for those days (approx £32,000 in today's money, leaving aside Bosman type football inflation).

JH once told me that he signed for Rangers for £100, turning down £200 from Clyde who saw him star in a trial or friendly game after his arrival from South Africa; because he had given Rangers his word that he would sign if they wanted him. A man of principle as well as great talent.

Mourinho + King's £50 million now that might be a combination that would work.

This is such an unusual incident (thankfully) that there might have been a case for ALL Scottish Clubs to have worn black armbands and held a Minute's Silence in tribute to a man who had played football in this country. In the case of St Johnstone they could have linked the two deaths. Absent that, we can take comfort in the fact that our Club and our fans did the right thing and that has been publicised in Honduras and no doubt other countries. If some mindless morons want to attack Izaguirre for his personal gesture that just shows them up for what they are.

The tributes (homenaje) paid by the Club and Rangers' fans including the minute's silence have received extensive coverage in La Prensa with a number of pictures attributed to Rangers Twitter.

I have the Directors' secretary's email; I'll ask her to see if she can track it down and put it out. Did Interflora give you a time and date of delivery?

Minute's silence before the match.

RIP Arnold Peralta

I looked before and after the match but didn't see it either; also checked at the John Greig but it still had some from Remembrance Day.

That has me in tears in a coffee shop; well done Craig.

I think you should also remove the question mark from the title of the OP. Bluedell: Done. Thanks.

Terrible news which just goes to show how lucky we are in this country but must always remain vigilant.

Arnold Peralta: Honduras footballer shot dead - Honduran international footballer Arnold Peralta has been shot dead. He was killed in the car park of a shopping centre in La Ceiba, on the country's Caribbean coast. The motive for the attack isunclear. No arrests have been made. Police ruled out robbery as a possible motive because Peralta had not had his belongings taken. "This is terrible," his father Carlos told a news conference. "They killed my exemplary son. I can't say more because of the pain I feel." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35068362