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SONE ALUKO feared he was set for the football scrapheap before Rangers stepped in to rescue him from the wilderness. The winger, who was today awaiting the outcome of an SFA probe into an alleged dive to win a penalty in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Dunfermline, was without a club for six months after parting company with Aberdeen at the end of last season. And he admits he went through some dark days as he trained on his own. Rangers threw him a lifeline which he appears to have grabbed with both hands and he is determined to relaunch his career with Ally McCoist’s men. “It was really tough sometimes,” he said. “When you train on your own you have to be confident and have some self-belief that things will work out for you. I had to keep a base line of fitness so that if a chance like this came then I was ready to take it. “I was lucky because my family supported me all the way through it. “But if I am being honest, there were certainly times when I wondered if I did the right thing leaving Aberdeen “There were days I was on my own and feared that it might have made the biggest mistake of my career. My family kept encouraging me and that was important. “Now that I have been given this chance I am determined to take it.” And Aluko has told the Rangers fans they haven’t seen anything yet. The Nigerian internationalist took the man-of-the-match award from Saturday’s win over the Pars and has strongly denied he cheated to win a spot-kick. SFA compliance officer Vince Lunny will review the footage before any decision is taken, although SFA sources say punishment for the winger is unlikely as simulation is very difficult to prove unless clear cut, and the match referee Steve Conroy had a clear view of the incident with Martin Hardie at the time. Aluko, meanwhile, has insisted that once he is 100% fit and fully integrated into the Ibrox side, there will be more to come from him. “I will improve with every game because my playing games with new team-mates you find a bit of harmony with them,” he said. “It is hard at first, but there is more to come from me. It is just a case of taking it day by day and trying my hardest to settle and bring success to the club.” http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/sone-aluko-i-thought-i-had-made-huge-mistake-1.1138226

SONE ALUKO feared he was set for the football scrapheap before Rangers stepped in to rescue him from the wilderness. The winger, who was today awaiting the outcome of an SFA probe into an alleged dive to win a penalty in Saturdayâ??s 2-1 win over Dunfermline, was without a club for six months after parting company with Aberdeen at the end of last season. And he admits he went through some dark days as he trained on his own. Rangers threw him a lifeline which he appears to have grabbed with both hands and he is determined to relaunch his career with Ally McCoistâ??s men. â??It was really tough sometimes,â? he said. â??When you train on your own you have to be confident and have some self-belief that things will work out for you. I had to keep a base line of fitness so that if a chance like this came then I was ready to take it. â??I was lucky because my family supported me all the way through it. â??But if I am being honest, there were certainly times when I wondered if I did the right thing leaving Aberdeen â??There were days I was on my own and feared that it might have made the biggest mistake of my career. My family kept encouraging me and that was important. â??Now that I have been given this chance I am determined to take it.â? And Aluko has told the Rangers fans they havenâ??t seen anything yet. The Nigerian internationalist took the man-of-the-match award from Saturdayâ??s win over the Pars and has strongly denied he cheated to win a spot-kick. SFA compliance officer Vince Lunny will review the footage before any decision is taken, although SFA sources say punishment for the winger is unlikely as simulation is very difficult to prove unless clear cut, and the match referee Steve Conroy had a clear view of the incident with Martin Hardie at the time. Aluko, meanwhile, has insisted that once he is 100% fit and fully integrated into the Ibrox side, there will be more to come from him. â??I will improve with every game because my playing games with new team-mates you find a bit of harmony with them,â? he said. â??It is hard at first, but there is more to come from me. It is just a case of taking it day by day and trying my hardest to settle and bring success to the club.â? http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/sone-aluko-i-thought-i-had-made-huge-mistake-1.1138226 Looks like there is going to be a lot of dissappointed people:thup::grin:

Excellent work again Chris. Keep up the good work.

Gersnet running slow as hell,it's taking ages to load

I'm convinced a Rangers player will be treated differently!

According to Micheal Grant in todays Herald the IRAoke have ceased since the investigation!!. Blatant lies http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/269/iraoke.jpg/

I seem to remember the Arabs trust making a statement condemning the Rangers fans for there songs a while back,they must obviously like the IRAoke from the BHEASTS?,unless they are preparing a statement as I type?

THOSE of you who are regulars here will not have been in the least surprised to learn that the Times of London is parting company with Odious Creep. And with the best part of a month to spare. My forecast, made here around the last Festive period, was that Creep would be away before the end of 2011 And so it has come to pass. Odious Creep's away. Or, you like, Odious Creeps away. He has fallen a long way since his heady days of the spring of 2006 when his campaign in the Herald and suspected collusion with UEFA, led to Rangers facing sanctions. The aftermath of that was a dramatic dip in the Heraldâ??s circulation figures and a new editor, Charlie McGhee taking a hard line with Creepâ??s slack professional habits which saw McGhee order that Creep desist from his sloth of supposedly working from home and report to the Herald office for duty on a daily basis, just like all his hard working colleagues. It wasnâ??t too long after that and an alleged confrontation with McGhee over a diary piece which the editor was reported to have pulled from the paper, that Creepâ??s short reign at the Herald came to an end, with not a penny piece of compensation This coincided with the Times of London re-launching its Scottish edition, with veteran Magnus Linklater as editor. Somebody â?? no names no pack drill â?? put a word in with his pal Linklater and Creep got the job. Now, According to Creep, he has accepted a fairly generous redundancy package. I can tell you what it is! A month for every year he has worked there, as is standard practice within Rupert Murdochâ??s empire. Creep joined the Times of London as the district sports reporter for the Scottish edition in the spring of 2007, which means he has under five monthâ??s money to collect. Now, depending on if you believe what he tells you, and when he makes the claim, he either earns well below the £100,000 a year he claimed to one colleague, only to lower that figure when I made it public here, or whatever the £56,000 a year salary he originally signed on for when he joined the paper, has incrementally risen to.. Letâ??s meet him somewhere in the middle and put the salary he has been stealing at £70,000 a year, giving him a pay off of around £30,000, which he will trouser tax free. At the time he claimed he chose to leave the Herald, five years ago, he was pulling down £85,000 a year. It always seemed strange to most in the old inky business that anyone should chose to take such a massive wage cut, at the same time as going from one paper ,with a circulation of around 60,000, to join a Times of London Scottish edition with a circulation which was then half of that. The effect his presence has had on the Times of London is for him to leave it with a circulation just north of 17,000. Almost a year ago I made the point that the News International operation would be trimming costs during 2011 and its Times of London Scottish edition was an obvious target One point I made was that editor Linklater was ageing and his power to protect Creep diminishing. In the interim we have witnessed Creep again manning the anti Rangers barricades during the clubâ??s dispute with UEFA over the shadowy involvement of the FARE organisationâ??s spying trip to Holland with Rangers. This blog highlighted the close relationship Creep has with FARE, through the Celtic supporting wife of its head honcho, BBC Radio Five Liveâ??s Aasmah Mir. This is something which may have caused concern to his London paymasters. I have also been able to frequently draw the attention of his London bosses to his cavalier attitude to work, highlighting his failure to attend two Walter Smith European press conferences and his lack of appearance at Hampden when Alex Salmond held court. More recently there was the a busy Monday which saw him do nothing for Rupert Murdoch, but appear on BBC Scotlandâ??s Reporting Scotland, before heading to Clydebank for a two-hour gig on Radio Clyde. All of which may just have done the sort of damage he once confided to a colleague on a European trip he feared I could inflict. It was not long after this â?? was the timing significant? - that he made a series of allegations about me which resulted in me resorting to the services of mâ??learned friends. Not long after that, Odious Creep made a remark to the Heraldâ??s Hugh McDonald about my sexuality which provoked guffaws of incredulity from the magnificent Shug. The occasion was a match and the venue was the Hamilton Accies Press box. For all of that, it would have been stretching a point for this blog to have been headed, Spike Milligan-styleâ?¦ ODIOUS CREEPâ?¦.MY PART IN HIS DOWNFALL. Wouldnâ??t it? http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/

As the match wasn't shown live in the UK you would have to assume it was the BBC who initiated the investigation?

Updated http://doublestandards.bplaced.net/

The match commander?,the BBC?. What I'd like to know is why it is being investigated?

You can see his arm clearly being held by the pars player http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/031211-Rangers-v-Dunfermline/G0000gwTzVgTqj68/I0000d5Odj2x7Yi0

Does this mean that the SFA are going to investigate every penalty?.

Are you allowed to say that?:smile:

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TLB eating shite again?,or just talking shite? http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/shiteteeth.jpg/

Maybe they should investigate this one as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP02WKzKlSk&feature=related

The Scottish FA are likely to review an incident that let to a penalty for Rangers in their 2-1 win over Dunfermline, BBC Scotland has learned. Pars manager Jim McIntyre claimed Rangers' Sone Aluko dived to with the spot-kick, converted by Nikica Jelavic. Alleged simulation can be processed using the SFA's fast-track procedures and compliance officer Vincent Lunny is expected to review the incident. A decision would be made on Monday at the earliest. The penalty was awarded by referee Steve Conroy when Rangers were already a goal up, with Martin Hardie the player penalised. However after Jelavic netted, Joe Cardle pulled one back for the Dunfermline to set up a tense second half.

Shite game,but this was always going top be an away win. Nice to hear Andy Walker praising the BHEASTS for their singing:mad:

What chance of them dropping points today?,I can't see anything other than an away win,can always hope for a draw though:)

TRIBUTE SOCRATES BRAZIL BRASIL 1982 1986 Worldchampionship legend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vk2OkagTuY

LITTLE can be read into the latest Rangers accounts due to the ongoing dispute with HMRC according to a specialist in football finance. The Ibrox club released their first accounts since Craig Whyte’s takeover on Wednesday, but Neil Patey of Ernst & Young says that while there are positives to be taken from the figures, the new owner was right to highlight the “dark cloud” which still hangs over the league leaders. He also stated it was unlikely that any auditor would be keen to sign off on the accounts until that matter was resolved. Claiming that the figures released this week were almost irrelevant given the enormity of the bill they could face if HMRC are successful, Patey said: “Absolutely. There are a couple of reasons why I don’t think anyone should get too hung up on these accounts. A) they are largely pre-Craig Whyte’s ownership so they are largely history and not that relevant to the current ownership structure and B) frankly, what happens with the tax case will make a dramatic difference. If it goes against them for any significant amount of money then obviously there are huge financial implications and I would presume Craig Whyte, and I am only guessing here, but he will be cautious about putting too much money into the club until they have clarified that position.” If Rangers win the case, that too could colour the situation. “Once it is clarified one way or the other, then, if he has the money, and there have been rumours as to how much money he actually has behind him, but if Craig Whyte has the money then he has made a commitment that he will invest something like five million a year over the next five seasons,” added Patey. Stating that he had found nothing too surprising in the accounts, he said that from as profit and loss point of view the turnover was semi-encouraging. Up by £0.9m, he stressed that was despite dwindling SPL attendances, the fact fans have less money to spend and the corporate world is spending less on hospitality. “But what was slightly disappointing was the fact the cost base was up, hence the profits of between £4-5m deteriorated by about £4m,” said Patey. But while greater policing and stewarding costs contributed to that, Patey said he also suspected that wage negotiations and the enhancement of player contracts had played their part. “It is worrying but it is a trend across most SPL clubs where the turnover is under pressure and they are having to manage costs as best they can. Ideally clubs should try to break even and not make a loss and I suppose Rangers, to their credit did not make a loss. They just didn’t do much better than break even.” The confirmation yesterday that the club is seeking to secure a tie up with Brazilian club Corinthians was also hailed as a positive. The Ibrox club have spent the last few years cultivating contacts and links in the USA and have recently made it clear they are also exploring the likes of India and Patey says it makes commercial sense. “Like the top English clubs, Rangers and Celtic are a big enough global brand to try to expand overseas, firstly to try to find players in countries where you might not have to pay massive transfer fees and secondly, if you employ an Indian player or a South Korean player, if he does well you can then sell more merchandise out in those countries and build up a bigger following and enhance your global revenue. “That has to be a strategy to explore that avenue because the alternative is the domestic market and we know attendances are under pressure and in these difficult times fans have less money to spend and, having just renegotiated a Sky contract that is locked in for four five years, you won’t get more money from TV revenue. So, what is left to you is the global market and they have to investigate ways to increase their global footprint.” Any advance though, could be overshadowed by the outcome of the tax case. The club are challenging a bill for £35m in back taxes, as well as £14m in penalties after paying players from an Employee Benefit Trust between 2001 and 2010. The next hearing is due to begin on 16 January. Until that issue is clarified, Patey says auditors will be reluctant to sign off on the accounts. “I don’t see anything sinister in it at this stage. But it would be an interesting question for the auditors if they try to have them sign the accounts before the case is determined. From an auditors point of view, you would challenge the going concern if you think there could be a big event which could see the club running out of cash. “You try to get clarity before you sign so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you didn’t see that audit opinion being given until after the tax hearing in January. There might not be full clarity then but you would expect a greater degree of it.” http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spl/moira_gordon_tax_case_remains_key_to_rangers_financial_future_under_whyte_1_1990265

It has been announced that the 60-times-capped player, who captained Brazil in the 1982 World Cup, has passed away at hospital in Sao Paulo, following a fight with illness Brazil legend Socrates has passed away after suffering complications in his bid to recover from an intestinal problem. The former Corinthians hero was rushed to hospital in Sao Paulo on Thursday night with a suspected case of food poisoning, but was immediately placed in intensive care after it was discovered that he had suffered a septic shock, in which bacteria from an infection seeps into the bloodstream and spreads throughout the body. Despite the best efforts of medical staff, the 57-year-old lost his fight for survival and was pronounced dead at in the early hours of Sunday morning (Brazilian time). Socrates had already been submitted to hospital with gastrointestinal haemorrhages twice previously since August and recently admitted that his problems had been related to alcohol abuse. A classy midfielder with an eye for a goal, Socrates also played for Botafogo, Fiorentina, Flamengo and Santos during a stellar career which saw him capped 60 times by Brazil. He was one of the most revered players in the much-lauded 1982 World Cup squad, which he captained. http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2931/go-global/2011/12/04/2787084/breaking-news-brazil-legend-socrates-dies-

I gave hin MOTM,but bwouldn't disagree with Aluko getting it as he was excellent,I also thought Wylde had a great game

Correct,why go blabbing to the mHedia,it harms the club