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Simms (Everton/Hearts) rummling up Championship defences for Sunderland and Stewart clipping in the goals. I wonder if either of them was on the list of possibles at the start of the window. Neither good enough for Rangers, of course but the same would have been said about the boy di Stefano. Now under the direction of Tony Mowbray, I should add.

Thanks for that memory. Straight out of the Bomber Jackson textbook.

Good place to be. No disappointments and the occasional pleasant surprise.

But why against QOTS?

Villa were poor at the end of last season when Beale was still there.

Colak hasn’t scored a hat trick yet. (Colin Stein Loyal)

In midweek Rangers confounded me yet again and proved what most people know already that I know nothing about football. Gratitude. Now, don’t mess it up against Dross Clarty.

This will trigger cancellation. The only question is sine die or life. I’d swop Kent for Jota. Not the Liverpool one. The other.

THE PEOPLE.

Haven’t seen any of it but it looks as if they had a go. I was fearing five. Is it send off the Protestants weekend? Might it be mandatory for the rest of the season?

I think Collum does his inept best without too much obvious bias. When he sees what he thinks is a red card incident, instead of reaching for the ticket, he needs to walk over to the scene of the crime, thinking as he goes and make the decision on arrival. A few seconds of contemplation always beats impetuousity.

I’m afraid one’s Butler left for a job on the rigs years ago.

I think it was Ms Mir’s career choice.

The direction of travel of the ball is not relevant. The position of the player when the ball is played is what matters. Colak is ahead of the ball and steps back. Well done for alertness. What I can’t discern from the highlights is whether his step is completed at the time the ball comes back off Matondo. Anybody with a fancy big telly enlighten me?

I’ve lost the place with the offside law but the old rule was that you were onside if you were behind the ball when the ball was played.

Seems like it. Both managers booked in the first half and sent off in the last minute. Pair of nutters.

Back to League 1 maybe.

Yes.

Not quite Premier League but next season, who knows? Nearing half time and Sunderland lead Beale Park rangers 2-0. Scorers, Stewart and not good enough Simms.

According to bbc last week a “fabulous” United “sank” AZ. There must be terrific underwater recovery systems in the Netherlands. Haven’t looked at bbc today. Private grief and all that.

Was this not announced a few weeks ago?

I’ve seen a fair few of these one- offs, right enough.

A price worth paying.

Jimmy Millar went back to his trade and played right half that night as if he hadn’t spent years at centre forward. What a night.

Glasgow Rangers Player by Player. This indispensable aide memoire reminds me JF scored 145 goals in 164 games 1963/1967. Four of these were in the second half of a league cup final against Morton 1963. Someone on this board once remarked that for a time in the sixties every photograph of a Rangers goal had JF in it with his arms raised meaning if he hadn’t banged it in himself, he was there to mak siccar.