Walterbear

No reason why you can’t have one. But if you are going to do it it doesn’t cost £32m pa especially where that £32m doesn’t even represent £32m investment in new productions and talent. She was strongly advised. She should have told London that it won’t work. She didn’t, it hasn’t and many other areas of her organisation such as Sportsound continue to operate an embargo against hundreds of thousands of people who contribute healthily to her salary and pension pot. Let’s be clear as well on the Rangers issue. BBC Scotland do not operate just a boycott of Rangers. They operate an embargo against all Rangers fans in the country by prohibiting and blocking appropriate coverage of our matches through ‘editorial choice’ (no laughing at the back), and last night was a spectacular example of their bloody mindedness and failure to see reason in their ongoing deprivation of Rangers fans rights. No wonder they can’t run a national channel. They can’t even cover football properly.

She pushed this show very hard internally. The budget was never sufficient She was told it would be a disaster by people who knew. And a disaster it is. She is walking away having earned £180k per annum and she has been there for 30 years working her way up the salary scale to its present rate. Her BBC pension pot will be circa £2.5m possibly more. Absolute disgrace of an organisation not fit to serve the public. BBC Scotland would fail in any business other than one where they can legally extort money from ‘customers’.

Come on Rangers kick on from this! Just what we needed! Historic night. Surely we’ve never won 3-2 from 2-0 down ever before in Europe?

It was stupid but if that is a yellow and applied consistently for that level of dissent then we’d end up with a lot of 5 a side football.

If it evens itself out we will get 15 penalties at Parkhead after the split.

No goals conceded at home would be my priority. Confident we can score over there and make it a real one off cup tie.

If Celtic has a grain of morality they would be condemning racial abuse at Parkhead as reported by one of their own fans, endorsed by police charges and heard in social media recordings. They are clearly trying to implicate Rangers in false racism accusations in order to then create a story to drown out the actual racism (and sectarian bigotry which everyone has forgotten about) that took place in their stadium by their fans on 29th.

I would agree racism is not a big issue in Scotland Bill but if he is called a black B it is racism however it’s dressed up. It doesn’t matter if they don’t shout racist abuse at their own black players. They are using pejorative phrases and the first thing that enters their heads is the colour of the guys skin. If for whatever reason they start to dislike their own black players then these people will be capable of racism against those players.

He’s been well and truly filleted.

The players telling him to stay in the pitch was a bit odd.

Listened to that and only reinforced Whyte was a gullible shyster who got shafted by better skilled deviants and he is not to be trusted. Fair do’s to Tam Cowan. He called it out for what it was. Cosgrove came across as a complete erse. Judges as high as UKSC and far more credible authorities than the likes of Whyte, Cosgrove, Spence, English, Gordon , or moon howling celtic and other rival fans have made clear reference to the differentiation between club and company. HMRC, BDO, football authorities, ASA, etc. QCs and law lords have all endorsed difference, and for Spence’s benefit a QC specialising in tax and the UKSC have explicitly made clear no criminality involved with EBTs. Not sure what ‘former law lecturer’ Spences legal credentials actually are but it’s just as well for him and any potential clients he became a journalist and not a proper lawyer. BBC Sportsound can’t even calculate how many games Celtic need to win to confirm they are champions. I’m not taking their opinions or insinuations seriously, nor am I concerned with Craig Whyte’s view on anything - unless I decide to embark on a life of greed, lies, deceit and general immorality.

This thread is nonsense. We have improved massively from Ally, Pedro, Warburton, Murty. Since Gerard arrived we have played Celtic off the park in 5 games. We have qualified twice for the EL groups and now the KO. We have been robbed blind in a cup final and been the victims of atrocious refereeing all season. Pre Gerrard the scum were annihilating us. He’s made some mistakes but that was to be expected and part of the package. We have some very good players and we need an ongoing upgrade. We were never going to turn this round quickly unless someone was going to hand over £50m and even then FFP would negate that possibility. The slump is disappointing but SG will know what needs to be done.

Very good performance. Well done to them all.

Difficult day. Just need to keep winning even if we’re poor. Our dip in form could end. That’s what happens in football. A few wins on the trot and a few goals and everything will look very different.

The dimwits today on radio were all saying Celtic had to lose 4 games to lose the league. They can actually lose 2 games against us and draw one other and they can still lose the league. They really are hopeless. Not one of them picked up on this despite them repeating it several times. We pay small fortunes for their salaries, pensions, expenses and this is the best they can do. Utterly inept, over payed and biased.

The food has been atrocious at Ibrox for decades. Ive never seen a fan survey despite the common knowledge of how poor it is. Eat that rubbish, give us a fiver and shut it.

I hope he doesn’t apologise. I actually hope he repeats the accusations and is taken to court.

Well done. Followfollow needs to show same leadership

In a nutshell.

The main reason for the offside rule in the first place was to provide structure to the game and stop attacking players standing on the opponents goal line. The changes nowadays where a toe anywhere in the attacking half is found to be offside has become ridiculous. If VAR is to not ruin the game the ‘clear and obvious’ must apply because that would take 2 seconds to resolve in 99% of cases.

My partner is from S America not too far from Colombia and confirms the gesture means ‘the finish’ or ‘the end’. Alfredo should simply be advised not to use it here again as his intention will be interpreted differently. End of story.

Doubt he would have been in attendance. They have rules whereby opposing supporters can’t get involved in the team they oppose. He is blatant in his affiliation and that’s the issue. He writes material on bigotry for FARE yet retweets bigoted posts demonising Rangers fans as ‘Manky Mob’ and calling us c”nts.. His twitter following profile is hard left, conservative catholic, west Belfast, Republican. I could argue that isn’t a problem, it’s a mess over there and you are entitled to your views. But I couldn’t defend his status in FARE and their relationship with UEFA if he is a member of FARE and holds such views and affiliations. I’d argue he was a bigot and FARE are bigots who do not (or perhaps do!) their employees.

Club must raise this with UEFA.

By the time she got her elephant thighs out of her jeans you would be onto something else mate. The only thing I’d stick in her would be a bar of soap in her gob.

“Rangers lost to a clinical finish from Julien from a superb Christie free kick brought about by an atrocious hack on ‘French Eddie’ by Goldson who was lucky to escape a red card. Julien may have strayed marginally offside if some TV angles and Sevco fans are to be believed. But he didn’t know he was offside, McGreogor the H*n keeper didn’t know he was offside, 50,000 fans didn’t know he was offside, and the assistant referee who was perfectly positioned could not have reasonably flagged for offside due to several other Celts who were potentially in an offside position obstructing his view”