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Let’s hope he goes south or overseas. If north, no further than Newcastle please.

The noble lord may achieve his lifelong ambition.

Innocent I may be but I’m a Presbyterian trained innocent so I don’t do miracles unless you count the result of the Aintree Hurdle yesterday.

Irony, my man, irony.

Never lost it, old bean.

Good stuff. I reckon Shakespeare had that somewhere in his St Crispin Day speech but the bloody printer lost it.

You don’t share my confidence then?

That’s how I read it. So £9M approximately, the value of a couple of decent players. celtic will still have to endure a years long maelstrom of media analysis and vituperation. I expect it’ll start soon.

You’re the only one who knows about all the obscure guys at Ulan Bator Wanderers and the like. The rest of us can only think of Barry or José. (I’ve come to terms with no Allardyce or Warnock)

I know. I spake in jest.

Nobody within Rangers just some Guardian readers, bbc folk, university people i.e. those who enrolled and stayed on forever, lefty comedians and maybe even @buster.

Who’s arguing defence?

I think you’ll find that when it comes to killing muslims, other muslims are proficient at it.

Correct. celtic opposed an extension of the season because they claimed to have arranged a tour of Japan early in the close season. “Sporting integrity” they called it. There was no such tour. That’s celtic integrity.

I wonder when Sturgeon, Yousaf, Swinney, McLaren and Aitken will be issuing statements.

I hope you’re right. I was reading the figure as an all claims total. I’ll be glad to be wrong.

All done and dusted nearly, all low-key, no admission, no apology, less than £10M, no need for any fuss, time to move on. Or perhaps a big campaign in print and broadcast media to fully expose the scandal and name guilty parties responsible for the coverup. I wonder which.

I thought so too. Arsenal 4-1 Fulham Wolves 1-2 Hammers Forest 1-2 United Bournemouth 2-0 Ipswich Brighton 1-2 Villa City 3-1 Leicester Newcastle 2-0 Brentford So’ton 0-2 Palace Liverpool 4-2 Everton Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham

Meaningless gibberish from the Record but that’s normal.

When I started going to football there were huge crowds mostly men who made their living woking with their hands and many of them straight from the yard or the factory for a 2pm kickoff. There was constant hubbub augmented by cheers and counter cheers, shouts of abuse, bad language of the worst kind though not chanted in unison and rarely within earshot of a woman, fights, blokes passing out, general disorder and angry demos at the front door (until five o’clock when the pubs opened) What there was not, was any suggestion of politics other than the superficial loyalist/rebel stuff. Political and general social statements are a foreign invention, recently imported, latched onto by the usual suspects and sadly copied by UBs. Rangers are not restricting free speech. Only what people say or do within the curtilage of the stadium.

100% agree Anyone but Palace for me, preferably the Villa whom failing Forest then City.

City were comfortable winners over all but seem to have lost their collective team purpose possibly associated with the decline of de Bruyne. Wonderful player so “decline” is relative. Roy Keane was angered by the City players’ carefree attitude in the first half. “Strolling about smiling”, he said. I think he was right.

For a reason probably.

Brighton out on penalties, thank goodness. Forest ‘keeper saved two.

Forty odd minutes on and you’re still right.