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Funnily enough I’ve achieved everything in life I ever set out to. Two daughters, a wife & a decent job. Own house & car. I earned every penny I ever spent. Never conned anybody or ripped them off either..

Murray didn’t put a penny into Rangers, as I’m sure you well know, apart from maybe the 6million he paid up front in 1988. He got the bank & various individuals (including Dave King) to loan us the money, which even then I doubt amounted to £160million. If it was his own money, he’d have been bankrupted in 2012 & we’d have continued to thrive, not the other way round. David Murray and Craig Whyte are the worst examples of ‘entrepreneurs’ (the French word for crook) buying football clubs, but that isn’t the only disgrace this Labour policy seeks to redress. Considering the truly obscene wages paid to players & agents by Premier League clubs in England, it actually beggars belief that only 4 out of 20 even pay matchday staff the living wage. Even more outrageous considering the prices they charge tourists & fans for the merchandise these workers are selling. It is simply unjustifiable.

We would probably be exactly where we are, as we wouldn’t have needed King & co to bail us out in the first place! There would have been no Craig Whyte, Charles Green & Mike Ashley, and no liquidation. Only difference is we wouldn’t have been waiting 8 years for a major trophy. In any case Dave King doesn’t own Rangers, yet is prepared to put money in. We are actually not far from the community ownership model already.

Sorry but you’re all wrong (well most of you). Football clubs are vital public assets & should be owned by nobody except the community they serve. If you don’t like it then go and live in Monaco..

Has everybody forgotten Craig Whyte now then??

Only clubs seen as ‘right-wing’ get stands closed by Uefa.

That’s a bit optimistic! Get 10 points and we’d still be well in contention. 15 and we’d have it won before Xmas!

Ok. Good luck if you did back us at 5/1 though! So far it is similar to Liverpool/Man City down south, ie the difference is we have been picking up points when we played bad, but celtic seem to drop them. I reckon they might pip us at the post this year, but we will use the disappointment to win it next year. Just a hunch..

Anybody willing to admit that London Dykes might genuinely be a good player yet..?

Unless we play them in the League Cup final..

Sorry mate but I don’t know where you got those odds from. Rangers were round about evens with most bookies when the league started. Dunno where you got 5/1 from, was that maybe a boost on Skybet??

To be totally honest, neither squad has more than one or 2 genuine legends. Not like the AC Milan game a few years ago. They brought a proper legends squad!

Seeing a lot of complaints about the quality of ‘legend’ playing. I think we want to see a decent game, so would rather not see 57 year old Richard Gough up against a 35 year old Torres tbh. We don’t have any real legends under 50, so Gerrard will pretty much have to play for us to even it up. I’d have rather seen real Gers legends up against the likes of Beardsley, Barnes, Grobelaar etc. But Liverpool seem to take these games seriously & are sending quite a young squad..

Where are you seeing that mate..?

Incidentally, I watched ‘the theory of everything’ about Stephen Hawking last night. Quite inspirational, and Eddie Redmayne’s portrayal of the scientist was well worthy of his Oscar. Felicity Jones was great as his wife as well. Well worth a watch!

I believe it was adjourned again till the new year

Just watched that. It was tough viewing, and it never even covered the last 3 years of his life when he got even worse. God knows how he kept going. Maybe he never really felt loved until he was in Scotland. There was another story to be told there I feel. Sorry to hear that. Is there any progress at all with this disease? Fernando lasted 6 years, Doddie Weir seems to be fighting it for the moment. It seems to affect a few sports people. Are there new treatments for this diagnosis on the horizon? Let’s hope so.

This is actually fkin criminal. As if it wasn’t hard enough to qualify through 4 knock out rounds for the Europa league, they are now basically taking 50% of the groups out & putting them in this Conference league. It will still almost be impossible for the likes of Hearts, Hibs & Aberdeen to get into this 3rd division. It would be hard enough for Rangers (though if we did qualify, we would have a realistic chance of winning the thing). Basically it is designed so celtic get into the Europa league, and Rangers can’t. Almost as if Peter Lawwell was involved in designing it..

If this was in place this season, Rangers would have no access to the Europa league group stages at all! Maybe this should be moved to the Rangers Chat section?? Good news is, thanks to us the Scottish co-efficient is going back up, so the SPFL runners up -should - still get a shot at qualifying for the Europa league. Anyway we will no doubt be champions by next season..

RIP Fernando, who battled MND but ultimately in vain. Nobody has ever survived this terrifying disease, although some like Sir Stephen Hawking have lived with it into their 70s. There is no cure for this disease. There is no cure for Aids either, yet thanks to billions of pounds of scientific research HIV sufferers can now expect to lead normal lives & drugs can delay the effects of the disease indefinitely. It is time the same level of funding was put into fighting MND. Donate here - https://www.mndscotland.org.uk/fundraising/make-a-donation/

And his biggest trick was pretending that he wasn’t good in the air..

Was that not a tap-in after their keeper threw it against a defender who wasn’t looking?

It does matter, but he never gave a free kick anyway. Too right he has been ‘got at’ like every other ref in Scotland. On twitter, I saw the Record hotline. All about how Dallas should never ref another Gers game because he chopped off a ‘perfectly good’ St Johnstone goal & gave us one that was offside! Bringing up the St Mirren game last season. Blatant lies, yet the Record print it. You could see Dallas pause momentarily, he knew it was a pen but simply bottled it. There is an orchestrated campaign against match officials in this country by Celtic, & they know exactly what they are doing. Time RFC called this out!!

Special mention for the time Souness benched him, but he came on as a sub against title-chasing Aberdeen at Ibrox. He scored 2, one a sensational overhead kick! Yet Jim Bett scored 2 to earn a draw for the sheep..

McCoist was actually under-rated, easily the greatest Scottish striker of all time. Genuinely world class. Yet because he spent most of his career here, & maybe because he was always seen as a joker, I don’t think he got global recognition. 2 golden boots in succession ffs! I used to go to Scotland games, and in 10 ‘away’ games I only saw Scotland score one goal! So I vote for that one, in a 1-0 win over Switzerland in the Euro 96 finals at Villa Park..