rocket_scientist

Nothing wrong with Cyprus. It's a country of less than a million people and a popular holiday destination. I just thought the obvious might be obvious.

A team from... wait for it... Cyprus, hold us to 2-1? And you loser cunts are seeing positives? How fucking bad has Scottish football sunk? AFC were meant to be the second best team in the country?

I've not read anything in depth about the ongoing saga as it doesn't affect my life and I'm not interested. There are many subjects that don't affect me directly that I am interested in. This - Rangers - isn't one of them. What I don't get is the HMRC case/appeal whatever. Who are they suing? If Oldco no longer exists, are they challenging the very existence of Newco? There's no doubt that assets like the real estate on which Ibrox sits were taken over by the Newco. Is the corporate dissolution of one company and the creation of another being challenged? If so, now I could get interested. I don't give a fuck about Nimmo, Regan, Doncaster et al. I want to know what the basis of the legal contest is.

Remember to remove your shoes to facilitate the process.

They cheated. They got found out. They got punished. The oldco went bust, the newco got put into the bottom league. What's the issue now? Has there been new evidence?

Ha ha. But the reality is that they work no longer hours than anyone else. Apart from in their 20's and early 30's. Like junior doctors, the price they pay for their safe, guaranteed establishment incomes is to sacrifice many of their prime time hours. Which is really fucked up if you think about it. Some free advice. Preceded by a fact. The best legal brains in Scotland don't work in Aberdeen. If you need a damn good lawyer for an important case, don't consult the muppets on a sixth of the income of the best. And where the local muppets spin out their hours to maximise the bill on the shit job they're doing for you anyway, the best are charging heavy per hour but they do it quick and they do it properly.

I am a qualified lawyer so here's the key. Oldco no longer exists. Every company, or indeed even a non-limited partnership, is an individual entity in the eyes of the law. So penalising, suing, or even speaking about a dead individual is a waste of space. Choose life, not Rangers.

Now now, less of this poovery. If there's any love to be swishing around, it's best done by a love expert. Someone like me, the king swisher of love.

I think it's obvious that the product that is Scottish football has been very poorly managed over many decades. In order to fix any problem, it needs to be identified first and acknowledged to exist second. One of the reasons why the rest of the world isn't interested might be that our game isn't very good, much more than it being a "marketing" issue. The reasons why we don't attract expensive footballers whilst obviously financial, will be totally down to short sightedness. Our administrators didn't just fail to have a vision of where we are going in the future, they couldn't see the present and were so satiated by the past, thought that the gravy train would never end. There was a fantastic programme on BBC 4 on Monday about the beauty of stats and data. Had the people in the SFA and the SPFL ever bothered to apply intelligent measurement and reflection processes to their subject, they ought to have seen the declining participation levels in our grass roots. After all, it's hardly anything other than obvious and alarming. Ignoring it - if indeed they even saw it - is sweeping their own inadequacies under the carpet.

You've convinced me guys. Void sounds good. Fuck the bastards.

Good post. At the end of the day, why would anyone demand that their titles are revoked? Have they thought this through? What do they want, the second placed team to be given the trophy? How hollow would that be? No its better that they won by cheating and everyone knows it. It's a pure gold put down v. uppity Huns.

You're kidding right? And why does anyone (other than a professional presenter) need presentation skills? And what's a professional demeanour? What is proper dress? And what is the proper way to announce to the public?

I'm well aware of what you were commenting on. You missed my point. There are no "reputable news sources" within the mainstream media. Even Channel 4 News - which clearly has more independence - is still prone to selling a party line, demonising any opposition and failing to ask the real questions. Who are the "reputable" sources to whom you listen?

Nobody's disputing the indisputable. It would be folly to try. Just dinna spik like a yank. Yanks are generally stupid and their international foreign policy is as corrupt as it is see through.

Well well, that last hour and a half was incredible.

Death of a Salesman is a classic. But it's American. We don't say math here.

This will be remembered as the faggot Open. Pity cos it's the best course in the world and it's been staggeringly great for the first 3 days.

Reputable news source? What time warp do you live in? I would've added "fuckwit" to that last question and even though it's the Eberdeen wye, either you or a fuckwit piss weak "moderator" would've taken offence. Grow a set. Rely on yourself. Develop an instinct and then use it. Milne is a cancer for AFC. I've known this for a quarter of a century and have been posting this for a decade. Some of you are too fucking thick to see the obvious.

All I've got is an audio I took from the news last night. It was particularly poignant for me and extremely good timing as it happened because on Saturday I sent one of my clients a 7 page document on this precise subject, the power of belief. Federer said "If you believe that you can go really really far in your life and I think I did that and I'm happy, I kept on believing and dreaming and here I am today with the eighth, it's fantastic".

After I asked the question, I was trying to think which ex Don was playing with the now defunct club alongside McPherson and couldn't think of anyone else. Maybe I should think before speaking next time! They tell me it's not a bad strategy to adopt.

I remember Levein as being cultured, good on the ball, economical with it and very good at reading the game. Right enough though, when things weren't going his team's way he could be a nasty cunt, which he disguised as clumsiness, being that fraction late or sticking his studs into the man rather than the ball. You've probably exposed his major weakness, decades on. He's mentally weak, unable to deal with adversity and not strong enough to grind through it. Who was Judas by the way?

His words in his post victory speech/interview were priceless however. The guy is sheer class.

I must admit that I was a tad gabberflastered by this post and unsure of how to respond. I wondered if you'd been on the piss until... I listened to that excellent Melvyn Bragg piece on the gin craze starting in 1688. I never knew about that, far less that it was William of Orange who introduced it to England. That's where the phrase Dutch courage came from. Very interesting stuff. On reflection, I'm not going to be a regular gin drinker. I'll do what we did last night and have a "flight", which is the modern marketing parlance. Having 3 different ones and definitely including different tastes such as sloe berries makes it more palatable and variety being the spice of walnuts and all that. I couldn't drink half a dozen traditional juniper gins and always wondered if it was the tonic rather than the spirit that I tired of. Given the huge range now available, it's going to be fun to explore.

Paul Mason was indeed a sublimely gifted footballer. We will never forget "his" final 28 years ago. Kidd was indeed an abortion but surprised you included Levein. Fud as he is, I thought he was an intelligent player. Dave McPherson was agricultural but strong most of the time and therefore pretty effective.

Actually the first ever funcy gin I tasted was a Scottish one. Caroun (or however it's spelt) had just come out and as we were going through Embra airport, they were offering free tastes. As they were serving it with apple rather than lemon slices, it was different and being in holiday mode, we bought a bottle. Found it in Sainsbury's Brig o Dee after that but after one or two more bottles, we were all ginned out. First time I've got into it was tonight and it wuz lubly.