SteveC

Brilliant stuff, Moonlighter.

He can't stand when females ask him questions and so he is often very rude. Disdain drips from him. He attempted to humiliate one journalist in a packed, male dominated pressroom by answering her query "I could explain it but it would be like you explaining childbirth to me." He also once, with a staggering lack of insight into how society in general (and marriage to him in particular) works by saying his wife was against women in football and therefore "it cannot be sexist" to say so, "can it?" The male interviewer in question that time was too stupid/frightened to answer and said nothing.

It is run by and for one club. It happily wounds itself out of hatred towards its most successful club. It terrorises its referees into being afraid of upsetting the club in sentence one. It is reported on by bigots with a not so hidden agenda. It's national manager is an idiotic misogynist from Neanderthal times - he is also characteristic of those in the game............ Need I go on?

Stop sitting on the fence and tell us what you really think

Before it is closed... A proper piece of journalism: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/rangers/15135563.Neil_Cameron__Mike_Ashley_has_zero_interest_in_where_Rangers_are_in_the_league/ ANYONE claiming to know exactly what Mike Ashley plans to do next is a liar. The billionaire is as secretive as he is surprising. The City is continually bamboozled by his deals, such as last week when he bought Agent Provocateur. Nobody saw him go into lingerie. In more ways than one. Educated guesses can be made about what his next move might be and what his motives are, but nobody is so close to him that they can say for sure. It is fitting for a man who loves a bet that his cards are never off his chest. Rangers supporters woke up on Sunday morning to a newspaper claiming Ashley is looking to make a move for their club. There was talk of £30m being put to Dave King, the plan being that his long-standing rival would be ushered back out of Ibrox. We will find out soon enough how much is in this. But allow me one of those educated guesses as to why and why not Ashley might be considering making an imminent move on King and Rangers. Let's start with the non-reasons and that is he is, to quote the People, "shocked at the state of the club and is promising significant investment if a takeover deal can be struck." The idea Ashley is looking at the Premiership table and the gap between his, cough, team and Celtic, and finding it just too much to take is laughable. Anybody who believes this strange and not particularly nice man, whose appalling business activities meant he had to explain himself to Parliament, believes he is the man to sort out that back four needs to up their medication. During Ashley's ownership of Newcastle United, a football club I covered for three years, they have been relegated twice, went 18 months without making a permanent transfers, had two other seasons when relegation was only avoided in the last few games, appointed Joe Kinnear as Director of Football (aren't Rangers looking for one of them?), signed lots of average French players, ignored the supporters' wishes, had the biggest fans group expelled from the official Fans Forum and then there was the Kevin Keegan scandal. Ashley hired Denis Wise as the man to do the deals and he, above the head of Keegan then in his second spell as manager, signed someone called Ignacio González on loan as a favour to South American agents. Keegan, nothing short of a God on Tyneside, successfully sued for constructive dismissal and won £2m. The 2009 hearing declared that the club had admitted to "repeatedly and intentionally misleading the press, public and the fans of Newcastle United," and that the evidence given by Ashley and his fellow executives over the course of the two-week hearing was described at one point in the verdict as "profoundly unsatisfactory". Does all of this make you think the man cares about Newcastle United? Indeed, has he done anything over the past three years or so to hint that he give a flying flip about Rangers? The People quoted a source as saying; "The current situation is unacceptable – Mike knows that. Rangers are set to finish behind Aberdeen and are more than 30 points behind Celtic. He is prepared to invest but he will not work with the current owner, who he feels has done little for the club in the past two years.” Ashley, who owns nine per cent of Rangers, has either become a big bluenose or instead, and history does rather bear this out, hates King, loves doing deals, and as he seems to have no other interests apart from gambling, believes he might as well have some what he would call fun. Perhaps we should have suspected something was amiss when the charmless Derek Llambias popped up on SkySports, two weeks ago, apparently as concerned about Rangers as the bloke who has had a season ticket in the Copland upper for the past 30 years. Ashley's henchman said: "Last time I spoke to you guys when we were voted off I asked ‘where was the money? where was the cash? There was no money, there was no Nomad, there’s no listing and we’re two years on and it’s exactly the same. Where is the money? “To be honest with you, the club has got great history, wonderful traditions and they just need somebody with a lot of money behind it who are going to produce the goods.” Now King is hardly an impressive character to many who believe he says one thing and does something else, something cheaper. However, take it from someone whose previous job was to watch Ashley's movements and try to make sense out of them; for all King's faults, for that there are legitimate questions of how Rangers is being run, just about any other option is better than allowing Ashley to have any more influence at Ibrox. Look at his record at Newcastle United. Watch him claiming to MPs he had no idea about how many Sports Direct workers were on zero hour contracts. Read up on what the British business community, not usually the most liberal of bodies, feels about him. Then ask yourself whether Mike Ashley really does have strong views about Rangers' league position.

Thanks, I didn't know that. As it should be of course - but surprising in this day and age.

I know it sounds silly, but I think they have to treat it that way for toin coss/dressing rooms and (if there were any) strip clashes.

Well I pressed "thanks", Ian, but...............

Yep, our most hated trio........... Not only Hibs being Hibs but Hibs after the Scottish Cup Final and them getting off with it and have TLRB in charge - that puts them right up there with the sheep (maybe even worse?) behind the eternal bottom of the pile/top of the hate list.

I remember something from the Retard being posted here a month or two ago and we were guessing why they ran it. My guess was that it was a precursor to a story re Ashley trying to take us over. Their agenda (probably taken straight from a Tim blogger) is clear and will no doubt get the Davie Provan seal of approval in the Express or whatever rag prints the drivel in his name. Contrary to an earlier poster's comment, I do hate Ashley for, zero bid contracts. One only if the many things I hate him for, certainly, but an indicative one re his character.

Also weird was the injury time. 2 minutes. And yet we had a over 5 minute of injury stoppages and (I think) 6 subs!

What a freakingly weird day: ahead at half time/ Ref not giving every decision against us / 6 goals for us and weirdest of all - three goals from corners.

Hill powers in a header for 4

Yes! 3-0............

Garner 2-0!

Kiernan and Toral two of the best on the park in that half?

HT 1-0. Two other notable shots from Hyndman - should have scored but straight at keeper. Miller - ferocious drive but also straight at keeper allowing him to tip it onto the bar.

Should have been a goal there. Hyndman shot at keeper after great McKay run.

Is Dodoo injured? Two squads in a row he's not featured. Apologies if mentioned earlier, just in after rushing home.

Some of them will be able to come but not nearly as many or as straightforwardly: "Once Britain's demarcation from the EU is finally drawn, footballers looking to ply their trade in the UK are likely to be subject to a similar set of rules that govern transfers from outside the region (assuming Britain does not appeal for a quasi-European open border scheme modeled after Switzerland and Norway, which appears unlikely considering remarks made by new prime minister Theresa May)." http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/19/football/brexit-effect-on-english-premier-league/ " Article 19 of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players bans the transfer of minors, defined as players under the age of 18. There are three exceptions. One: kids moving for non-football reasons (like a parent getting a job in a new country); two: youngsters residing near a border; and three: transfers of minors between the age of 16 and 18 within the EU or EEA. Obviously, in the event of Brexit, that could not happen. That would mean that Manchester United could not have signed, for example, Adnan Januzaj of Belgium or Timothy Fosu-Mensah of Netherlands, or that, back in the day, Spain's Cesc Fabregas could not have left Barcelona for Arsenal. Now, a number of European clubs -- not just in the Premier League, but elsewhere, too -- exploit a loophole in legislation allowing them to sign players when they turn 16, often with little or no compensation. That would become illegal. " http://www.espnfc.us/blog/marcotti-musings/62/post/2900922/how-brexit-will-impact-the-premier-league-and-its-players

I don't think any manger would help much in the current situation tbh. We're close to second despite everything shit that has happened. We may end up 2nd even without a manager. Catching them though needs a huge amount of cash. Even 100 million would need to be spent wisely given how crazy football has got and the money from transfers and Chumps League is added up. Actually given how far they are ahead financially it probably wouldn't be enough and is certainly far less than what has been stolen from us. DoF and long term strategy is what is needed -and has been since Walter left. SSN say DoF to be announced tomorrow

Goodnight all. Hearts one down deep into injury time...........

Pretty surprised now

Marvellous by Hyndman. Stunning

Goooooooooooooal