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Blood, toil, tears and sweat, from which will spring Victory.

Such cynicism! The Compliance Officer is strictly neutral, and objective in every assessment, I'll have you know.

So, the attacker appears to have been called "Sean". Mmmm....

.....and the best of British luck, my friend.

That is one hideous looking set of fuckers, there. Don't tell me that this is a random selection of soapdodgers. It must be a special pen for the most facially challenged brutes, with reduced prices perhaps. The one with the mask must be like Joseph Merrick, if he has to hide his face.

"The appointee met the job spec, the person spec, excelled at interview, and had 1st class references", or something along those lines. Do we need to know more?

I think that he just wants somebody to put him through the Masons.

There are a no of posters on here who will be heartened that they stand arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder, with experts of the Scottish fitba' press. Men like Michael Grant, a smug, small minded, generally snide observer of the scene, with no love for Rangers whatsoever, who opines in today's football supplement of the Times of London as follows: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/why-have-rangers-given-caixinha-the-job-jbbq70c2f (Paywall). Why have Rangers given Portuguese the job? Monday briefing Michael Grant, Scottish Football Correspondent March 13 2017, 12:01am, The Times Pedro Caixinha will be impressive today. They always are on day one. When he’s presented to the media at Ibrox everyone will start to flesh out the bare bones of what they’ve read about him so far or watched on YouTube. Doubtless he will come across very well, with some charm and an interesting line or two. New managers are always on the top of their game at these introductory sessions. They are selling themselves. Caixinha sat in the main stand at Celtic Park yesterday for 90 minutes of people shooting glances and trying to read his face about a game which was nothing to do with him. The result and the nature of Rangers’ performance and recovery altered the mood around the club for now but had no effect on the general bafflement that the board gave the job to the 46-year-old Portuguese barely anyone had heard of a fortnight ago. However long Caixinha talks at his media unveiling the real meat will come from whoever is there to represent the board — Dave King will be nowhere to be seen, so doubtless it will be the managing director Stewart Robertson again — and shed some light on exactly what it was that appealed about Caixinha. He spent 14 months in charge of his first club, little Uniao Leiria in Portugal (average crowds that season: 2,300), and they finished tenth in the league. They had finished ninth the season before. Then he spent 12 months at Nacional (average crowds 1,900), and finished seventh in his only full season. They came sixth the season before. Rangers can only have been really impressed by the bit of success he had in Mexico, where he spent 33 months at a much bigger club, Santos Laguna (attendances around 21,000). They have two championships in a season there, with the top eight playing off for the title, and under him they finished 6th, 2nd, 4th, 9th and 8th (going through the play-offs to win the title). Before he arrived they had finished 9th, 7th, 4th, 1st (also winning the title) and 9th. Since he left in 2015 they have been 7th and 16th and are currently 6th. In other words a broadly consistent pattern before, during and after his spell in charge. He won one Copa MX cup tournament as well (the third “major” trophy he is credited with, the Campeon de Campeones, is a Community Shield-style play-off between the league and cup winners; it wasn’t even held in Mexico, it was played in Texas). At Al-Gharafa in Qatar — another brief stint, just 15 months, average crowds under 2,000 — he finished 9th in his only full season. They were seventh the season before. Robertson said they had been “forensic” in their search, remember. However well they all talk at Ibrox today there is one unalterable fact: given that track record he has done incredibly well to land a club as big as Rangers. Well, what do we make of such a rubbishing? (Apart from the fact that Mick can Google with the best of us.) I should observe.... No, Mick, Pedro Caixinho has already "sold" himself to the people who matter, those who appoint the staff at Ibrox and Murray Park. He has no need to 'sell' himself to the likes of you. No, Mick, the Board does not have to explain itself to you. No, Mick, the "real meat" will come from performances and results on the park. No, Mick, you really don't need to attempt to drive a wedge between Pedro C and the support on day 1, by denigrating the man, and his abilities. He will stand or fall by the product on the pitch. Oh, and Mick, the general bafflement you claim to exist is merely a result of you and your fellow chancers being caught out, in a state of complete ignorance. Frankly, if such a state is, indeed, bliss, most of you people would be locked in permanent orgasm. When you have to ask the question, "Who would have thought that that would happen?", or a variation thereon, you know you have ballsed up. How did he get the job? Simply, and according to the Board's job spec, and person spec, he was the best candidate at the time. My advice to Pedro Caixinha would be too keep swine at a distance, and to speak softly, but carry a big stick.

Dutch coaches are so last year.

Not sure that I am keen on censoring Georges Bizet, or on censorship at all, for that matter. So: However, I have deleted the post with the painting therein.

The Knowledgeable One? I thought that he was TT - too mean to drink.

Very similar reasons to those which make it difficult for Wenger to leave Arsenal. In his case, c20K GBP per diem.

For most of the match, Alfie Conn's pace had McNeil demented.

Come on, think of the children!...........Oh, perhaps not.....

Peter van Vossen: worst miss ever. Bar none. Anyway, I remember hearing the late Jock Wallace in a post match interview, after we had won. The interviewer: What was the best goal, Jock? Wallace: The winner.

Chucky IV?

A helluva game: Scottish Cup fitba' at its best, And the right result.

Yes, that one.

I've just watched Clint Hill's equaliser, again. OK, and again. Is it up there with Ugo Ehiogu's overhead kick, and Maurice Edu's winner, both v fhilthfc? (None of the three compares with Tam Forsyth's shinned winner in the '73 Cup Final, imho)

Clearly a better manager than Brenda.

That would explode the myth, and no mistake. I have long held that he is a "lucky" manager (no bad thing in itself, to be frank). Swansea was a team on the up when he took over. Liverpool had Suarez scoring goals for fun, and, as far as I recall, a fit Sturridge. When the Uruguayan left, Liverpool's performances nosedived. And rasellik? Well, quite simply he took over a team with a playing squad far ahead - in cost, salaries, and numbers- of any other team in the league.

We should not fucking need to!!!!!!

Take that Suville calculator to the Antiques Road Show.

One thing to note is that they went 1 - 0 down, and, unlike on other occasions this season, did not fold. Murty may have instilled some bollocks in the team.

Yes the ginger haired tadger failed to impress. Tell me what he is worth in May 2018. The Compliance Officer should be looking at Dembele's dive, and at Broonaldo's slap on the kisser to Holt (?). I suspect that he won't.