SteveC

Different Country, different police force, different laws.

The same law is applicable to everyone whose primary domicile is in Scotland. This was stated very clearly at the time of its absurd passing onto the Law books.

Yes, this means that a Scotsman who resides in Berwick and and Englishman who resides in, say, Largs singing the same "offensive" songs at the same game in Berwick are respectively innocent (or rather "unaffected by") and guilty of breaking this Kafka-esque Scots Law.

this was a tad rich:

“We’re about to go through possibly the biggest change in the game for a long time."

As if illegally putting Rangers, the country's biggest and most successful club, down to the bottom division was not the biggest change of all effing time you cheating barsteward.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/9908159/Charles-Green-vows-to-ban-Rangers-bigots-for-life.html

 

 

Already plenty of outrage about this elsewhere and the usual stuff about Charles Green 'bullshit' etc. But for me the fans at Berwick put the club in this position where there has to be very strong words and threats.

That's true but on the other hand this suggestion is preposterous. Lets say you are standing near a dozen pissed up heavies belting out the Billy Boys. If you intervene you may well get a leathering; imagine if you have a kid with you - even worse to get involved. If you do not intervene you get banned.

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AND.....

 

I believe my promised lamentable list of those sports writers and pundits who have behaved with a lack of proper professionalism in the wake of the Lord Nimmo Smith verdict, has caused a stir on some editorial floors.

 

It will appear tomorrow.

Translation - I write on a free blog that is thoroughly discredited even amongst most of the converted who constitute the entire audience to whom I "preach".

"I believe =" Hope someone is listening. please please believe I am relevant.

"stir" = "I want to pretend I am important"

"editorial floors" = aye, really, a blog that sucked up Craig Whyte's arse months after even the dimmest had finally seen through him. Craig "the master poker player...."

"appear tomorrow"- maybe..... but maybe not. There has been two or three years of this. Phil3names was to be collared tomorrow (remember all his talk of the polis "closing in"? Craig Whyte was to win "tomorrow"; Duff and Phelps and Liewwell and Daly and Toxic Thommo....etc etc to fall "tomorrow". The Calendar flicked over, the promises never delivered from the "contacts" in the "old inky trade" as "some may wish to call it, who can say, I cannot possibly comment". Dribble, drool....NURSE!

There may be a list tomorrow - any of us could put the names on it just now. We could have done so when this retard with a slim grasp of the language he claims, risibly, to be an expert in*, was still Craig's fanboy, come to that.

*it is good to know the difference between "bated" and "baited" (most of us, non-journos at that, knew it before reaching double digits in age, though). It is utterly embarrassing to boast about it in blogs riddled with far more basic errors, however.

Lemmon and Septic (surely not connected with this story in any way cough, cough) are moaning about "undisclosed payments" that were neither payment nor undisclosed.

Only in Scotland

Jim farry was sacked for holding up a player's registration. Regan is still in a job despite wrongly trying to remove trophies from a member club.

 

how is that possible.

In Scotland these days this, sadly, is a rhetorical question

basically "we cheated...we got off with it..."we got what we wanted from (our) legal system...he doesn't care (but can't shut up about it) 'cos they are playing Juve in a 'big game' and are doing so because they have always behaved impeccably."

He is a walking advert for the abortion his supposed Church opposes and he tried to force upon one of his "f@ck buddies" (his words) when cheating on the wife and kids he claims are important to him.

Does anyone have a link to Part 2 on Rangers TV? I've only ever seen part one and can never locate further episodes

He handled it superbly, cap well and truly doffed. I particularly liked his facial expression when Toxic Thommo said "Chris and I agree on so many things...."/ How he did not lamp the three sick bastards he was set-up by/with, I will never know.

Just to add, it's never too late to claim you are owed money.

Compensation for:

illegal Demotion?

illegal Embargo?

illegally Stolen Prize Money?

Slander, abuse and defamation causing investment shortfall/worldwide loss of face?

being judged guilty of something that was not a crime in the first place and was not proven in the second.....

being punished in all the illegal ways mentioned while a criminal investigation was going on into Whyte the Scoundrel's takover in contravention of SPL's own rules

Re: SPL Statement: Every time you think you cannot hate them anymore, that they cannot be more blatantly bigoted.....they make you think again

In reality, LNS is saying that the side-letters containing the payments were lawful and that therefore there was no reason for them to be omitted from the documents lodged to the SPL/SFA for player registrations. That we chose to do so without asking them if it was ok not to do so is the only thing they can throw at us out of all this.

 

It makes you more curious as to how they decided to run with this at all in the first place? What sort of pressure were they under to ensure this happened? How do the few sane member clubs of the SPL now feel when they have had to pay up approx £40K per club towards the legal bills for something this petty, in the hope of some of the more deranged amongst them that they could find something to take away titles from us that would only positively affect one club, and negatively affect every club?

If any were sane they'd have spoken out against it already. They are all implicated. They all hate us and wanted us dead. Which is how I feel about them. Compensation courts, anyone?

Charles has just done so. :-D

Thank you. Point 6 says it all.

WATP

"Bad people doing bad things."

Well said, big Mark.

Sandaza on - he'll get the winner

Hope so, I'm starting to fear the worst though

Dear God, but it is hard work watching this.

Disagree with the OP. We don't need to stop singing about religion and politics. It's been done during every game at Ibrox this season without any major issue.

Are you saying "it has been done without any major issue" automatically means "it is therefore right and proper to do so"? If so, a dangerous precedent, I'd have thought.

It looks like McCoist is asking for a song sheet for our support. Simple thing to whip up a list of songs that are perfectly complyable with any regulation by UEFA. (Not that it will stop the odd troll to belt out TBB et al ... if only to show how cool he is in defying this.)

On the one hand it looks like this is desperately necessary, on the other - how sad. Ally is basically saying that neither the fans (nor the club come to that) are capable of recognising what is or is not acceptable behaviour. We have to be told. Not only are we incapable of knowing what is inoffensive or otherwise as fans, our club cannot tell us, Ally clearly has no idea or he could say himself rather than asking to be told.

Kindergarten teachers ensure their 43-4 year olds understand what is acceptable public behaviour on day one. Ally is nearly as old as me, RFC is over double my age. And we can't work it out for ourselves, really?

Leggat bluffs, lies, twists things, uses appalling syntax and his writing is strewn with grammatical infelicities. He pretends to know things which his tiny brain could never even dream of comprehending and he switches sides in the blink of an eye if it makes him look better.

So, in other words, he's a Scottish journalist. As is Jim Traynor and although JT may have a little bit more about him, he has been guilty of all the same nonsensical flaws in the past. It is what being a tabloid journalist is all about, the kind of creatures school janitors can feel superior to, if they ever meet.

The thing that I have never understood about RFC taking Traynor on is - whatever our past with the media - it was guaranteed to get the press against us. OK, they have been so virulently so for so long you might say "what the hell?" But Traynor until a year or so ago was one of that pack (and a classic example of someone who would argue black is white on Monday and no it is not on Tuesday).

The minute he came to our side creatures like Tom English switched to "OK, show us what you are going to do" and increased their anti-RFC articles.

JT's appointment has further isolated us from the media at large and merely intensified their attacks. A 4 year old could have seen that coming, why the hell are people running the club so blind? And it won't stop, it'll just get worse. If JT "answers back" - cue 50 times the articles dismissing whatever he says in every paper and via every other media outlet.

Over a year after administration, fan backing is still all we have - those running every department at RFC are hopeless. I love the club with every fibre of my being but, really, we are "great" only in the number of bears who turn out to see us. WATP, but we are led by the unworthy.

The amazing thing is the Tims think that we're given a free ride by the media. Totally ignoring the general tone used to discuss Rangers and the now accepted concept that Rangers are in some way cheats. This is what we're up against.

Indeed so, it is like living in a sf-horror movie where reality is distorted. I've never met one who doesn't think Keevins is a bluenose. To be fair, I haven't knowingly met a tim in over a year now but as late as 2011 they still thought of him as a bluenose and that the Rhebel and BBCeltic were on our side.

Thanks for the feedback.

I disagreed with my pal for reasons given above. He didn't realise it is a concerted campaign.

Also I think these journalists and media bigots are a large reason we have been sent to the bottom division. They create the climate where we are victimised and always presumed guilty. An outsider to our poisonous wee country would never imagine what goes on; but I thought it illuminating to hear what one thought.

I sent the recent blog column: "BBC Scotland Can't Strike Rangers Balance"

by Chris Graham to a friend of mine (QPR fan, but life is sometimes like that for some folk )

He said I could share his reply; so here it is, I thought it interesting, hope some here do too.

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"Now hereâ??s my perspective.

My work takes me to places where â??journalistsâ?? operate.

Iâ??ve seen them in action and seldom am I impressed.

They so often start with an agenda and then try to get quotes etc to match it.

It amazes me that people care what â??journalistsâ?? think.

For example, football match reports often only serve to display their ignorance.

Why dignify their scribblings with a response ?

It comes down to this.

Rangers is a fantastic institution, part of the foundations of the City of Glasgow.

It has an enormous, loyal set of supporters.

You are too big, too proud and too secure to care what anyone thinks.

A bit of â??no-one likes us we donâ??t careâ?? is warranted.

All you want from a football match is three points / a place in the next round / the trophy (delete as appropriate)

All the rest is pish.

You do not need to crave credit or rave reviews.

You shouldnâ??t even care about the State Broadcaster and any lack of balance.

You are on your way back and will soon return to where you belong.

BBC Scotland cannot stop you.

Let them worry......you have nothing to worry about and no-one to fear.

Now feel free to post this on a Rangers fan-site and let We The People stop whining about irrelevancies like â??balanceâ??.

What would Thomas Paine say ?"

No, just wondering why he states this Carling Cup silverware is his biggest achievement, rather than any title with Rangers, no matter how granted it may have been.

Because it was a far bigger achievement. Not necessarily more pleasurable nor more meaningful to himself, but far less likely, much more of a mountain to conquer. That's what "achievement" means. Birmingham hadn't won a major trophy in how long? Birmingham won't win another in how many more decades? It was highly unusual and a far more unexpected and unpredictable trophy winning achievement than anything that happened to him in a Rangers' shirt.

Our glorious club has won seven trebles (and it should have been more, goddammit!) for goodness sake. I doubt Birmingham have won (yes, I am too lazy to google it to check), or maybe even will ever win, that many league-cup-whatevertheycallitthinsyear league cups individually.

Sadly - for me, the rest of the world is probably happy about it - I am the "wrong" side of 50, can't remember ever seeing Birmingham lift a trophy before, never expect to again.