Uilleam

I think we could have won; I think we should have won. 

A minority opinion, perhaps. 

When you celebrate draws, you are only a short step away from "hailing" 'brave defeats', and that should never do. 

Butland is up there.

The referee is not 

I thought that di Maria should have had a second yellow. Can't remember for what precisely. 

Sterling is the legendary Grail of a player: the defensive midfield striker.

What a man!

2 hours ago, Devil's advocaat said:

It was indeed a thing.

 

Back in the day, we had the European cup, for league winners only, UEFA cup was for 2nd, 3rd and maybe 4th IIRC, and Cup Winners Cup was for National cup winners. If UC was brought back, it would be the prime trophy now IMHO.

The UEFA Cup, (sort of) superseded something called the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, in the late '60s/early '70s. 

You may read all about it in Wikipedia, and be prepared for that once in a lifetime pub quiz question. 

A camel is a horse designed by UEFA.

Two Rangers' men, three opinions................probably more.

So who gets to berate the berator for wrong beratement?

1 hour ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

the refs brought in were also not told the real story why they were here..

If I remember correctly,  the cretin Reagan was pretty economic with the actualite, and did not explain to the incoming officials that they were, basically, scabbing. 

13 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

Be interesting to see what the SFA do about this.

Is the clue in the name, do you think?

9 hours ago, MacK1950 said:

Only thing about this,according to Brenda,cheatin Beaton called the red surprising to say.

I understand that it is a red card offence, nowadays. I am surprised that a Scottish referee knew this, or  managed to recollect it during a sellik match, when the offender was one of their players. 

Brenda, of course, and as usual, declared that does not talk about officials, but , of course, and as usual, did. 

5 hours ago, Rousseau said:

I certainly took some stick for my defence of Lammers...

You were trolling and taking the piss, obviously. 

What?....

Oh FFS!

Tinkering implies making unenforced changes, when you enjoy an embarrassment of riches. 

M. Clement is not, presently, in that enviable situation. 

2 minutes ago, Bill said:

In a Venn diagram of Scottish referees Don Robertson would appear in the section labelled Conscious Cheats.

He is competent, but only in his dishonesty. 

4 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

Listen! it's all about winning the title! so aye! it does help every time they bastards drop points!.

I love it when they fail. I suspect you do, too.....

I didn't watch the Hertz triumph, but saw a few passages of play, in passing, and  'highlights' on line. 

It is clear that the referee, Don Robertson, is a sellik-minded piece of filth. When play gives him a decision to make he makes it in their favour.

The 'penalty' he awarded, which, fortunately one of their goons missed, was a ridiculous decision. It was not a spot kick. Assuming fair brokerage, it was inexplicable. 

I don't think that it even qualifies as an 'honest mistake', frankly. 

He saw an other sellik goon kick a Hertz man on the head, a reckless, and dangerous piece of play, and penalised it with a yellow card. He is asked by VAR to review the offence, and is embarrassed into giving a red. 

He ignored a penalty to Hertz, and had to be asked to review the foul, and  hand ball, by VAR. Only then did he award the spot kick. 

3 decisions in 40 minutes, all wrong, and all to the yahoos advantage. 

If these were mistakes, he should not be refereeing at SPL level. If they were attempts to influence the game in his team's favour, he should not be refereeing at all. 

It looked to me that there were two fouls on Silva: one by the goon on the ground, and the other a body check by his team mate. 

The fact that there was such a palaver over the decision indicates, clearly, that we are refereed to a different standard. 

Wakey! Wakey!

We're playing like this is a morning KO. 

7 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Four DMs

 

 

And he expects folk to endure a full 90+ minutes!!!

10 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

"What does it mean when someone says esque?

an adjective suffix indicating style, manner, resemblance, or distinctive character: arabesque; Romanesque; picturesque."

Aah.

"Romanesque". Would that be synonymous with "Yahooesque"?

(Asking for a philologist.)

VAR has been an unalloyed success in making clear that officiating of professional football matches in Scotland is rotten, stinking, and corrupt to its very core. 

Previously, ridiculous decisions which could not favour our (generally, our) opponents more if they had been been planned, and practiced, and professionally executed, could be put down to genuine errors, or to the overall hopelessness of officials, as 'typical', with little more than exasperation. 

Now with VAR, we cannot shrug off, say, the handball by Lewis Mayo, and, having watched several repetitions on our home screens, accept that it did not meet any criterion for 'Penalty to Rangers'. To reject the evidence of our eyes, would be to accept that the referee, his assistant (linesman, as was), and two video assistants, all made the same genuine error in interpretation, and that that coincidence occurred with -despite- the benefit of replay, upon replay.

You will doubtless recall other curious, mistaken, decisions, against us,  by teams of officials, who are nominally charged to act with objectivity and fairness, and whom we expect to do so.

I am left to conclude, thanks to VAR, that the game is a bogey, and appears to be rigged. 

1 hour ago, Scott7 said:

Officer’s cane, surely.

If he’s still here in three years with three championships and 80% of the other availables he might be eligible for a Field Marshall’s baton.

Generalissimo, of course. Nothing less....

17 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

One. Game. At. A. Time. 

 

Of course. 

3 points......3 points......3 points........3 points........

.....and the games after those?

Well, you can guess.....

12 points 

Anything less is failure. 

One might think Warnock was suited to Aiberdeen, given that he could cause a rowie in an empty chaumer. .