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The Lucozade Sport Effect.

This mob are rubbish, but are beginning to drag us down to their level.

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Well, Provo would be a Ferguzade (sic) man, of that I am sure. As far as I can see the Forfar brewed panacea is no longer available.

Lucozade Sport and asthma inhalers? We could take on Red Bull with that cocktail.

On a quick glance through the teams, this does look like it would be a very good draw. (The Club is known as Riegler & Zechmeister Pellets Wolfsberger Athletik Club, which hardly rolls off the tongue; RZPellets WAC, for short.) Unseeded FK Krasnodar (CL) Red Bull Salzburg (CL) Dynamo Kyiv (CL) Olympiakos (CL) Young Boys (Gp. A) Molde (Gp. B) Slavia Prague (Gp. C) Benfica (Gp. D) Granada (Gp. E) Real Sociedad (Gp. F) Sporting Braga (Gp. G) Lille (Gp. H) Maccabi Tel-Aviv (Gp. I) Royal Antwerp (Gp. J) RZ Pellets WAC (Gp. K) Red Star Belgrade (Gp. L)

Sons of Sobieski 1 Sons of William 3 FGS: Zungu

I should send them on a slow boat to China, Compo. Live coverage of the voyage online 24/7, of course.

That is a stoater, a brammer, a corker, a ripper, a topper, and quite possibly the best yet. They are not like us. Thank fuck!

Radical Champions League plans get boost Martyn Ziegler, Chief Sports Reporter Thursday December 10 2020, 12.01am, The Times Champions League https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/radical-champions-league-plans-get-boost-hdn0zqrnx Uefa’s plans for a radical shake-up of the Champions League, with clubs playing ten matches in the group stage, have been boosted after the president of the European Leagues said that the extra games could be fitted into the calendar. From 2024 Uefa is proposing a “Swiss system”, often used in chess, where 32 or 36 clubs in a single division would be drawn to play ten opponents of varying strength based on seeding. The results would feed into one league table, which would determine progression to the Champions League knockout rounds. One model is for the top eight to qualify automatically for the last 16, with those in places nine to 24 playing off and the losers dropping down into the Europa League. Another model is for the top 16 to qualify. It would require at least four extra match days compared with the present format but Lars-Christer Olsson, the president of the European Leagues organisation, which represents leagues across the Continent including the Premier League, said they could be accommodated — though it would almost certainly have an impact on FA Cup replays and the League Cup. “I think it could be possible to squeeze another four dates into the calendar if we can see what kind of effect it is having on national team matches and other things,” Olsson said. “It needs to be part of our negotiations.” A format with 36 teams instead of 32 would give more flexibility for Uefa to include clubs from mid-sized countries such as the Netherlands, who do not have an automatic spot. Uefa will ensure that qualification remains tied to performance in domestic leagues but is likely to push for all semi-finalists to qualify for the following year’s group stage, possibly leading to up to a maximum of six clubs from a single country, though Olsson said the European Leagues would oppose that. Another proposal would reserve two spots for the clubs with the highest Uefa coefficient who had not qualified for the group stage — which this season would have been Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur — but that is also likely to be opposed.

He couldn't hold back the tide?

From the outside, it looks hurried, and, I hate to say it, a little less than than kosher.

We have no friends at the top table.

It means that he is for the high jump.

Left-footer.

That the "Invincible" team was under no pressure from us -or from anyone else for that matter- is also a statement of fact.

Exactly.

That team was under no pressure from us.....

The "friendlies" to which I think you refer were games with "big hitters". Does that category now include rasellik?

The divisions were there, clearly, before Jackson's attempt to keep the pot boiling. I am not suggesting otherwise. I remain of the opinion that exposing the agendas of a -still- mass circulation redtop, and its writers, particularly when they are regularly antithetical to Rangers, is useful.

"King and C1872 had already done that." Yes, but not everybody is aware of that. At the very, very best, Jackson is stirring the pot. "There's nothing new in the article and there's an element of clickbait about it, so copying it means that he has partly achieved what he set out to do." One click, one cut and paste, allows any number of people to read it, to read any observations the cutter and paster and other readers may choose to make, and to opine on it themselves. This is hardly supporting the Rhabble and its editorial line, or adding to the gross no of views for advertising purposes; nor does it mean promoting or endorsing the personal views of its writer. Exposure seems, to me, often better than disregard; and, as I said, earlier, know thine enemy. Better still, lay him bare for what he, or she, is.

This piece from Jackson serves a number of purposes: -classic deflection from the car crash at Piggery Place -sowing dissension among the Rangers' support -attacking his bete noire, Dave King, for whom he has displayed, consistently, personal animus for some time. There are issues with the Club1872/Dave King "arrangement", but a man with transparent agenda is not the fellow to discuss them. As for as the Dhaily Rhabble itself, I subscribe to the dictum that one should keep one's friends close, but one's enemies closer. Where appropriate, of interest, and/or concern, a copy and paste from it seems not unreasonable. However, it's no' ma ba', and it's no' ma bat.....

According to Wikipaedia, a source not unimpeachable, "Born in Dundee, Gardyne began his career with Celtic, the team he supported as a boy." That might explain hostility towards our lads.

That seems to be doing the rounds. I'm inclined to give it some credence, because, if it was out and out racist abuse, there would have been, I think, more of a reaction from our players and staff. Whatever it was, it was unnecessary, unpleasant, and, in this day and age, quite outlandish.

For the most part the team was in control, apart from the right back who was just running amok.