Bill

Utterly disinterested so far, maybe that'll change. Just hoping it isn't the endless procession of boring defensive games we usually see.

I keep asking myself, how exactly did Celtic manage to turn success into catastrophe quite so efficiently. Normally they're shite at everything but boy did they turn that around in a hurry. They had all the trophies, now they've none. They had a good manager, now they've no one. They had money, now they've only losses. They had domination, now they're under our boot.

That's a pity, I was sure he was the next Joe Venglos

HMRC is an entirely political organisation. It acts for and on behalf of politicians. It has no independent and wholly objective identity. To say HMRC acted with political influence is like saying a bird flew with the aid of feathers.

I really don't know why we're skirting around this. The decisions taken at HMRC were taken by people, not machines, individuals with likes and dislikes, personal agendas and inherent bias. Every single important decision taken by HMRC in this affair was a value judgement and could just as easily have been completely different. Nothing that HMRC did was inevitable. There were choices and the decisions taken were exercised by individual people. No one will ever persuade me that a significant part of those decisions wasn't a visceral hatred of Rangers or what it was perceived Rangers stood for. It was a stitch-up and officials at HMRC were at the heart of it.

Unless some unexpected affiliation to the IRA is revealed soon, this Greek Aussie is never going to be willingly accepted by the support. He's always going to be the second best option who was shoehorned into the job by a panicked board and as soon as he slips up they will be down on him like a ton of excrement. that is the main reason why old firm managers with no established connection to the clubs so often fail. The fear and anger spreads through the club until it literally chokes off any prospect of success. What he did in some Far East leagues is irrelevant.

Celtic have morphed into us four years ago.

Feels like the day City finally comes of age in European football and I can't see them losing. It should be close but I think Man City go into this wanting to win while Chelsea want to avoid losing. Man City will dominate the late stages to win 4-1.

I wonder if Pedro Caixinha is free?

Many years ago I sat in the very back row of the club deck and was surprised to find I had no view of the Govan stand, which was completely obscured by the. Club deck roof. Didn’t like that at all

Not in the same month as building New Edmiston House

If I were fantastically rich and wanted to own a club in the English Premier League, the one club I'd want to buy would be Spurs. The potential is enormous.

I did too. It's probably madness but what's a 12 year old mind supposed to do when his club comes calling?

That and the fact he's simply nowhere nearly good enough to improve our existing squad

You're so right and that was the main reason I moved. God knows what size of supporter the CD was designed for. I moved to the front row of the main stand and the sheer luxury of not having my knees lacerated every game is marvellous.

Someone said to me the other day, wasn't it impressive we have a 10,000 waiting list for season tickets. I said if that was the number then it was a tragedy we had to leave at least £5million on the table every year because we couldn't sell what people apparently want to buy. frankly, if that's the situation then the stadium simply is no longer fit for purpose. Most of it is 50 years old and the main stand, despite relatively recent improvements, is all but 100 years old and no longer providing what we need. Sentimentality is understandable but we need to be club that leads change, not one that's shackled by the past.

Keep the facade, demolish the rest. Time matches on, so must we.

You can't seriously believe that's true. Once might have been a mistake but repeated failed prosecutions has to something more sinister.

With respect that’s not the point. By all means investigate but what we’re talking about here is embarking on actual prosecutions that could never have been justified by anything those investigations revealed. So, if we now know those prosecutions were not grounded in law, what was the motivation and who took the decisions to proceed.

A few years ago I had season tickets for the Club Deck. Other than oxygen issues reaching the summit of those stairs, it was depressing to see buckets set out to collect rainwater leaking through the roof and black mould everywhere. I then moved downstairs to the main stand front and again the physical structure of the building was appalling. Improvements in the last couple of years have come as such a relief.

If the euros is like previous tournaments there will three good games and the rest will be coma-inducing crap. If anyone has the ability, could you let me know which 3 games will be worth watching?

Well done anyone who tuned in late and only saw the penalties. Brilliant exhibition of the spot kick art. Others like myself who watched the entire game will take days to recover from the tedium.

Can you be more specific.......

Seems to me that agents of top players and managers only maximise their income and improve their clients' contracts by ensuring that they move clubs on a frequent basis. Or is that just misplaced cynicism.