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« Reply #60 on: May 08, 2008, 07:33:37 PM »

this is a thinly veiled seething thread imo. we re gonna win the lot.
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« Reply #61 on: May 09, 2008, 04:31:01 PM »

this is a thinly veiled seething thread imo. we re gonna win the lot.
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« Reply #62 on: May 09, 2008, 07:02:23 PM »

An excellent article penned by Scotlands top Sports journalist Graham Speirs, lifted from another site whish has a filter so Scotlands Shame FC = Rangers, can't be arse changing it all and Scotlands Shame is about right.

From The Times:


Hot air from Sir David Murray but no answer 

We’ve just had one of those special moments that come around every so often in Scottish football, almost akin to a statement from Buckingham Palace or the issuing of a Papal edict. When Sir David Murray, the chairman of Scotland's Shame FC, pipes up, would everyone please stand to attention and listen?

Murray is most upset at the alleged “treatment” of Scotland's Shame FC by the Scottish Premier League. Scotland's Shame FC, in reaching the Uefa Cup final against Zenit St Petersburg next week, are playing eight games in 21 days, and the Scotland's Shame FC chairman has raged at the SPL's refusal to cancel Saturday’s match between his club and Dundee United, which would have given Walter Smith’s men more breathing space before facing Zenit.

What Murray, like just about everyone else in this saga, has proved good at is producing much indignant and spluttering hot air. What he has not been so adept at, and certainly not while issuing his official statement the other day, is in offering a practical answer to a very teething fixtures problem.

Let’s put it this way. If the SPL had cancelled this Saturday’s match at The Reichstag, then when could the game against Dundee United have been rescheduled? Answer... there isn’t a vacant slot for it anywhere between now and the end of the season on Saturday, May 24.

It is not a question of any agenda against Scotland's Shame FC, it is a question of practicality and available dates. In his public wrath, though, this appears to have by-passed Murray’s comprehension. The statement issued by the Scotland's Shame FC chairman seemed peculiar, not to say one which smacked of paranoia in its hint of a vendetta against Scotland's Shame FC by the SPL.

For instance, Murray warned ominously that Scotland's Shame FC had “not been treated fairly” and that he intends to “meet with the SPL at the end of the season to understand their decision-making process on certain matters”. My goodness, Lex Gold and other SPL apparatchiks will be quaking in their boots at this. Quick, lads, fetch the tin helmets!

What do these words of Murray hint at? Surely he does not believe the SPL was actually interested in hindering Scotland's Shame FC’ chances in the Uefa Cup final? If he does, we’re as well calling in the psychiatrists to attend this imminent Murray/SPL summit.

The SPL, in truth, has been interested in one thing and one thing only: fixing an end-of-season fixture schedule that had become nightmarish due to the problems and tragedies which have afflicted this 2007-08 season.

Murray, appearing a trifle off-beam, then cited the Russian football authorities and their treatment of Zenit St Petersburg, as if this had anything to do with it.

Zenit’s matches, unlike those of Scotland's Shame FC, have been cancelled with ease in the build up to Manchester next week, because the Russian season is still in its infancy. Frankly, they have dates galore in which to reschedule Zenit’s games, as would the SPL with Scotland's Shame FC if this drama was occurring in September instead of now.

Don’t people get it? It is a matter of too many games and too few available dates. And, because of the chase for third place in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League, you cannot have Dundee United playing a game out of synch with Hibernian or Aberdeen, with any advantage that that might give them. Where is the “vendetta” or the “agenda against Scotland's Shame FC” in this?

Somewhat fatuously, Murray even claimed that “people will be laughing throughout the world” at the SPL and its treatment of Scotland's Shame FC. To be honest, I’m not sure if Scottish football is that important to have people the world over holding their sides with laughter. Closer to home, though, some are certainly starting to laugh at Scotland's Shame FC over their endless bleating and squealing.

There is one further irony in all of this, which is the position of the SFA. At the head of that organisation is Gordon Smith, a former Scotland's Shame FC player and a Scotland's Shame FC supporter, who you would ordinarily think cannot be counted among this apparently growing list of citizens and organisations who have it in for the club. Late on Tuesday night Smith was invited to join the debate and he, too, failed to see how the Scotland's Shame FC-Dundee United game this Saturday could possibly be cancelled. Smith was asked if the Scottish Cup final on May 24 could be put back, thus creating an extra matchday, but declined this proposal on practical grounds.

Is Smith, the great Ranger, now deemed to be antiRangers? I certainly hope not, as that would be preposterous as much as unfair.

Most of us have argued all along that the SPL owed it to the Scottish game to help Scotland's Shame FC as much as possible. I was among those who were less than enamoured with the revised fixture schedule that was produced on April 22, asking Scotland's Shame FC to play four matches in eight days. It seemed a stressful schedule in a hectic period.

But what cannot be tolerated is this pathetic charge of the SPL deliberately working against the good of Scotland's Shame FC. This kind of nonsense only stirs some of the neanderthals in our midst, and Sir David Murray should know better than to venture down such a road
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« Reply #63 on: May 23, 2008, 01:28:04 PM »

this is a thinly veiled seething thread imo. we re gonna win the lot.
SEETHING  disco Let's all Laugh at Rangers
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« Reply #64 on: May 23, 2008, 01:40:11 PM »

this is a thinly veiled seething thread imo. we re gonna win the lot.
SEETHING  disco Let's all Laugh at Rangers

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« Reply #65 on: May 23, 2008, 04:32:11 PM »

They'll be asking to have the start of next season brought forward now as they have Champions League qualifiers to play now.

Another UEFA cup "adventure" beckons I think. Whichever city is hosting the final next year will be moving to Defcon 3 as I type  Grin
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« Reply #66 on: May 23, 2008, 08:40:42 PM »

A man goes to Glasgow airport and eventually goes into the departure lounge to wait for the call for his flight home. The place is a mess. All around him are overturned tables, smashed windows, upturned chairs, broken flight monitors and crowd control barriers littering the floor. "Christ, what happened here?" he asks one of the ground crew.
"Oh," he replies. "Bloody hopeless it was, we had the Rangers squad in here this morning filming the new Nike ad!"

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« Reply #67 on: May 23, 2008, 10:22:47 PM »

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« Reply #68 on: May 23, 2008, 11:20:25 PM »

They'll be asking to have the start of next season brought forward now as they have Champions League qualifiers to play now.

Another UEFA cup "adventure" beckons I think. Whichever city is hosting the final next year will be moving to Defcon 3 as I type  Grin

That's unfair, we'll play whenever Celtic tell the SPL they want us to play, just like this season.  Grin
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