Graham Spiers
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Sportswriter and broadcaster. Dad. Struggling Christian. Listen to my Scottish football podcasts - interviews + debates - here: .
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🎙️Free-to-listen:
Full Confession: My Life with Sir David Murray
My reporting, befriending and ultimately disputes with the former Rangers chairman became something of a saga.
And some cheap tin flutes.
Listen free here:
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Oh come on BBC Scotland, for heaven’s sake get
@mstewart_23
back on air. He’s bright, he’s engaging, he’s intelligent, he’s different. All he did was speak the truth, albeit passionately. Your radio and Sportscene coverage is much reduced without him.
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How desperate must Jim Traynor be to produce this wafting resentment? On the fate of a 12 year old boy? And, believe me, it is Jim, from the tortured syntax and sheer ineptitude with punctuation.
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Rangers FC referring to the 'shameful sectarian hatred' of other fans surely qualifies as the most ironic thing you'll ever see in football.
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This is a most pleasing sight on Sportscene. Welcome back Mikey.
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What Rangers FC could do with a young, modern, creative PR guru instead of an old blowhard 40 years in the business harbouring deep-seated grudges against sections of the media. A disaster.
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At Celtic Park
“I have heard my people cry…”
RIP Bertie Auld.
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I bet I can speak for just about every football writer in Scotland when I say we’ve found Neil Lennon engaging, articulate, witty and self-deprecating over many years.
Imagine a poor moron filming Lennon drunk, and abusing and goading him.
The utter tragedy of social media today.
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Many Rangers fans exercised and excited on here re this Celtic Boys Club tragedy. What a spectacle it is: the worst expression of transparent glee and oneupmanship I think I’ll ever see in football. Over child sex abuse.
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Tomorrow’s back page in The Times.
Alastair Johnston believes any Celtic 2020 title triumph might require “an asterisk”.
If I was a Rangers director I think I’d keep mum on titles that require “an asterisk”...😂
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.
@CelticFC
fans mobbing the streets of Glasgow in celebration of their Treble Treble. What a three years these guys have had.
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I was at Celtic Park today. This guy is ruthless and all-conquering in Scotland. Rangers plan to put an untested under 18s coach up against him next season. The sheer idiocy of it. It is staggering.
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“Tainted title suggests some sort of illegality, some kind of cheating going on. We’ve done nothing wrong.”
Celtic manager Neil Lennon has a sometimes cruel way of making his point.
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Have to say I wasn’t in the slightest bit impressed with Scott Brown’s antics today. Provoking, goading, laughing at defeated players, acting like the all-round tit. There was nothing classy about it at all.
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Dr Catherine Calderwood has been an inspirational Chief Medical Officer in Scotland. She has been utterly revolutionary in health care with her
#RealisticMedicine
thinking. She made a mistake this weekend but God help us if we are denied this brilliant talent at this time.
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Rangers fans excitedly RTing any Celtic Boys Club sex abuse stories. Celtic fans countering with dug up stories of ex Rangers youth coaches and alleged child sex abuse.
What a nauseating charade.
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The whole world can see the terrible wrong and hurt inflicted on Ukraine but, goodness me, Scotland fans are still entitled to dearly want their team to win at Hampden tomorrow. How on earth did this preposterous debate ever gain traction?
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Hi
@NicolaSturgeon
and
@scotgov
... please, please, please ask local authorities to leave UNLOCKED their various Astro/all weather pitches at our (now closed) sports centres. Means our kids can keep playing football/other sports and remain active during this crisis.
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The reputation of Rangers FC has been tarnished over several decades. It has now just been thoroughly trashed.
#BigTaxCase
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The paranoia that has infected Rangers in recent years - the fans, the club itself - is truly frightening. And here’s Stevie Gerrard, two minutes in the door.
Steven Gerrard: Officiating has been going against Rangers for years
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With so many newspaper reporters either banned, barred or out-priced from asking questions, “fan-media”who declare Steven Gerrard “my hero” and “my man-love” are currently grilling the Rangers manager about tonight’s fiasco against Malmö.
Utterly laughable.
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That was a real tour de force from Nicola Sturgeon on
#bbcqt
. I don’t sign up to quite a few of her policies but she is a compelling political performer.👏
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She’s still here. Still going strong in her 94th year, baking her scones, playing her Christian hymns on the piano. Exceptional ironer of longjohns. Born in 1929 and indisputably one of Hawick’s finest. My mum.👏🙏
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Kilmarnock had 3 players sent off yesterday by referee Steven McLean. His father once played for Killie. This character👇has to be the angriest man in British football. His soliloquy ends grandly with McLean being described as “the prick’s prick”.
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Quite a few of us - like me - who grew up supporting Rangers - passionate Rangers fans - reached a stage where the lingering stench of this shit became an utter embarrassment.
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Good grief…poor Ally McCoist now dragged into the begging and beseeching for human decency.
“Please, please, please…”
Clearly, a club that trusts its supporters.
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The scene at Celtic Park today after Brendan Rodgers’ team had hammered Rangers to win the title...
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Is there anything more desperate or barrel-scraping on Twitter than football fans keen to score points over something as tragic as child abuse? I’ve seen quite a bit of this today on here. What a world it is.
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They utterly detest him. He absolutely loves Ibrox. What a win today for Neil Lennon and
@HibsOfficial
.
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What an outpouring of bigoted chanting from Rangers fans at Rugby Park last night - angry, festering, almost medieval. A pitiful scene.
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No question: one of the finest international managers operating in Europe right now.
Players want to play for him. Players are flourishing under him. He understands the task - the mental, the tactical - of each game. These are good times for Scotland.
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Oh get on with it Celtic, for crying out loud. Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts and everyone else regularly have to make the trek to Glasgow for these games. For once, go 40 miles the other way.
#BetfredCup
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It’s routine now: Rangers enjoy success on the pitch and some of their supporters ruin it with their prejudice or racism.
Then the hoary old line - “it’s a societal issue” - is wheeled out.
Memo to Rangers: take on your bigots. Stop obfuscating about “society”. Grasp the nettle.
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I thought Rangers were terrific today at Hampden: strong, skilful, carrying threat. I hear debate about ref Bobby Madden but this was a deserved win.
Off the pitch…my God, this Rangers songbook. How the hell do we drag these people into the 21st century? Embarrassing.
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Statement from Craig Brown’s family:
“Craig died peacefully today after a short illness in University Hospital, Ayr, surrounded by close family members.
“The family wish to express their deep appreciation of the outstanding care and attention provided by hospital staff and the…
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I’ve gone out my way to cut Rangers fans some slack this weekend: years of pent-up anger and bitterness being released following a title win. But these reports of loutish behaviour in Glasgow last night are beyond defending. A thorough embarrassment.
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There was a concern - not least from Rangers FC itself - about fan behaviour in Seville, but I have to say the Rangers fans in Spain came over as fun and warm and colourful. Very appealing: families, kids, lots of females among the fan-base. It looked terrific.
Needs to be said.
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Everywhere I’ve looked tonight - radio, TV, media debate - Rangers FC is being trashed. It’s quite something when a club’s own support turns what should have been a joyous event into a widely-condemned embarrassment.
“The Rangers problem” is deep rooted, I’m afraid. No easy fix.
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Tom Rogic scored one of the greatest and most dramatic goals in Scottish Cup final history. He was a supremely talented footballer for Celtic, and now bows out of the game for very touching family reasons. Celtic fans will remember.
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The great Jock Stein couldn’t do it. Nor could Martin O’Neill. But Brendan Rodgers has just gone double-treble with Celtic. 6 trophies out of 6. It’s not bad.
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My interview in The Times tomorrow.
“It has to stop. There are kids growing up who think religious abuse, gender abuse, homophobic abuse are all OK. Being called a ‘tarrier’ or a ‘Fenian’. It has to be called out. I won’t shy away from it.”
Ryan Porteous on football’s problem.
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Hugh McIlvanney has died aged 84. Arguably the greatest sportswriter who ever lived.
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“The look on Billy’s face lifting that trophy. It says: ‘I am the ruler. We rule the world. We are the best.’” - John Clark
RIP Billy McNeill
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Very sad news. Craig Brown, the former Scotland manager, has died at the age of 82. He was a wonderful man.🙏
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Did Rangers MD Stewart Robertson seriously claim tonight: “At no point did we talk about bullying and coercion by SPFL staff; we’ve not said that anywhere.”
Have a nap, Stewart. Been a long day.
The Stewart Robertson contradiction as Rangers managing director makes 'bullying' claim
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Celtic FC now serving up free hot meals - lunchtime and tea-time - four days a week at Celtic Park as cost of living crisis clamps people.
We're offering a free warm meal 4 days a week through our
#ParadisePitStop
project 🍀💚
𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱-𝟳𝗽𝗺
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻-𝟮𝗽𝗺
𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱-𝟳𝗽𝗺
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻-𝟮𝗽𝗺
Tap below for more info 👇
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Celtic and their supporters were lampooned for this sort of stuff for decades. But now, if I understand this correctly, it is a perfectly sane and sentient position to adopt.
Laughable.
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I spend half my day reading this
#Rangersdossier
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Which makes me think: what other spurious tosh is he capable of?
He has derailed Rangers’ case.
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Brendan Rodgers actually shoves the security marshall out of the way - “get off him” - as he rescues a young Celtic pitch-invader and ushers him back to his seat.
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The Celtic fans’ IRA songbook going full pelt here at Firhill. A thoroughly depressing din.
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And before it all starts as usual - “they’re against us, it’s bias, it’s an agenda, it’s a conspiracy” - let it be said that this has been coming for a while.
For God’s sake, Rangers. This is 2019. Take action to stop your supporters singing these bigoted songs.
Rangers ordered by Uefa to close part of Ibrox for Europa League meeting with Legia Warsaw following "racist behaviour - which includes sectarian singing".
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For years people have spoken about the sheer squalor, filth and bigotry found on Follow Follow. Just how Stewart Robertson and Rangers have contrived to make this cesspit “an official media partner” of the club is utterly depressing.
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Every day in my prayers I remember this precious little lady, born in 1929, now in her 91st year, living alone and locked away for days on end in solitude in Glasgow, playing hymns at her piano. Though I will add, my mum has such lovely, kindly neighbours, for which thanks.🙏
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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a game quite like that Betfred Cup final today. Rangers could actually have won it 5-1. Fraser Forster surely played one of the games of his life.
Alfredo Morelos? 8 concrete chances and 8 misses.
Congrats to Celtic, 10 🏆 in a row, an amazing feat.👏
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Congratulations Ange and Celtic. Postecoglou is a superstar for the club. A treble looms and then the Champions League. What a signing.
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@TEnglishSport
Er...never mind you actually saying it yourself, Tom.😂 You need a lie down just like Stewart.
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I’ve written before about this: that section of the Rangers support that feels culturally ‘left behind’ by modern Scotland. So their ‘celebration’ is exhibited in anger, bitterness, resentment, aggression. Yet another embarrassing example of it...
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One of the great photos of Scottish football. Celtic’s Bertie Auld, suitably attired, having just sent Leeds United packing in the European Cup semi-final at Hampden in front of 136,000 fans. (Via
@Stephen4_2
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This guy: solid, sensible, tactical, thoughtful, calm. There’s a lot to be said for the old values.
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Dear Stewart Robertson:
Bigoted chanting has haunted Rangers FC for decades.
Pluck up the courage: condemn it outright. Offer no excuses.
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While Stewart Robertson, the Rangers MD, bans or bars journalists galore from Ibrox - a hallmark of his time at the club - I am astounded he and Rangers have still not uttered a cheep of regret over historic child sex abuse. That SFA report was 5 days ago now. Sheer cowardice.
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It has been an appalling mess - a political farce - but I personally warmly welcome this magnificent Scottish football institution back into the top flight. Worthy champions.
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Many a zealous Rangers fan coming to me on here with a sudden moral revulsion for tax-dodging. Some sort of strange epiphany has occurred.
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Man and boy, in 45 years of watching Scotland at Hampden, this is as good as I’ve seen. Brave, dominant, accomplished.👏
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Brendan Rodgers on when he might be lured back to England: “I’ve got 3 years’ contract left at Celtic. Three plus seven equals 10. It’s a big thing for the supporters. I have a responsibility to 60,000 passionate fans.”
Via
@DickinsonTimes
@TimesSport
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This is an amazing piece of film 👇Kieran Tierney, one of the best left-backs in Britain, loves being a Celtic player.
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I know this horse has bolted but...
Scottish top-flight agrees return to training June 11.
Competitive games to start Aug 1.
Games could actually start July 9: a 4-week training loop.
I still refuse to believe top-flight season 2019-20 could not have been completed from July 9.
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Exactly 40 years ago tonight John McGovern from Montrose lifted his second European Cup as winning captain, after Nottingham Forest’s 1-0 win over Hamburg.
Won 2 European Cups, 2 English Division One titles and 2 English League Cups.
But not good enough to earn a Scotland cap.
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94 today. Born 2.8.1929 in Hawick. Still bright as a button (if slightly barking). We celebrated with Scotch Broth for lunch. Against all my protestations the ironing-board will be up by 4 o’clock. I love her. 🎂
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Yes. Because Trump is a tit. That’s why.
Can either
@GrahamSpiers
or
@BBCTomEnglish
explain why it’s acceptable to have a banner that says “Fuck Trump” but it’s not acceptable to have one that says “Fuck the pope”?
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There has been a very definite subtext among many Scottish clubs re the Rangers FC campaign - on fairness, governance, transparency, going by the rules, moral integrity and more - which has said: “No, sorry, from of all clubs, we’ll take no lectures from Rangers.”
#SPFL
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A bagpipe lament at Tynecastle today before a Remembrance silence for The Fallen. No club in Britain knows more about Armistice than
@JamTarts
. The piper was 18 year old Charlie Forsyth.
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I've got Rangers + Celtic fans on here highly excited by the child-abuse stories linked to 'the other' in recent days. Some very sad people.
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I’m no cheer-leader for Neil Doncaster - never have been - but I must say he sounded lucid and confident and assured on Sportsound today, not least in clarifying the confusion over advanced payments to some clubs in 2016-17. Didn’t sound to me like a man headed for the gallows.
Neil Doncaster tells Sportsound he's "entirely mystified" by what evidence Rangers have against him and SPFL, and denies any allegations of bullying.
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Noted: even some Rangers fans despairing of the booming anti-Catholic chants coming out of Portugal tonight and worrying about Uefa consequences. Marred - yet again - a great night for the club.
Utterly baffling. Medieval behaviour.
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“Papes” “mongs” “bead rattlers” “spazzies” “Romanists”…
Has he spoken yet about Rangers’ “official media partner”?
What atrocious leadership.
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Neil Lennon later explained his exuberant celebration at Dens Park:
1. He felt total relief: a 96th minute winner
2. He desperately wants the title for Celtic
3. He felt real heat, replacing Brendan Rodgers at Celtic with 11 games to go.
He couldn’t have been more open about it.
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I’m amazed this Scottish League Cup final is going ahead on Sunday: 50,000 people descending on Hampden in packed cars, buses and trains. It’s an
#Omicron
jamboree.
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91 today 🎂 🎈 unspeakably lovely and kindly little lady. I owe her so much. Made in Hawick. 🙏
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My mum, Betty Spiers, pictured aged 17 in Hawick in 1946.
Found in a corner of my late father’s study this evening.
Now aged 90, she is downstairs playing hymns on her piano as I type.
An amazing generation.
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Santa for crying out loud what are you thinking bringing this for one of my kids...!!
#Staunch
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Never a foul. 😂😂😂
Never a penalty.😂😂😂
This is ludicrous refereeing from Bobby Madden.
All over Britain every weekend you see a yellow or straight red for such a dangerous, studs-high challenge.
Do the IFAB rules state: ‘But not for goalies.’?
Otra acción que sumamos a la polémica: esta tremenda entrada de Allan McGregor sobre Lewis Ferguson.
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I don’t care how pish Albania are. With the shambolic build-up, anything could have happened to Scotland tonight, and defeat would have resulted in public hangings. So well done indeed Alex McLeish, 4-0 is a terrific result. 👏
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Derek McInnes’s
@AberdeenFC
have played Rangers three times in Glasgow this season and won three times.
The Dons against Rangers in total this season: P6, W3, D2, L1
What a faint-heart McInnes is. A hopeless manager.
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One of football’s greatest ever photos. Beyond dispute. It’s almost Christ-like.
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Key part of Rangers’ accusatory statement of April 11: “bullying”.
That is a very serious allegation about
#SPFL
governance.
I’m wading through this RFC “dossier” trying to find evidence of “bullying” but haven’t found it yet. But give it time.
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Now remember Stewart Robertson, Rangers MD.
Not a word. Not a cheep. No syllable of regret for the mayhem.
Yep, you make sure you keep your “fans” onside.
Pathetic cowardice.
1/ I’m understandably inundated with messages about y’day’s disgraceful scenes in Glasgow. Police still have a job to do, which restrains my comments to some extent - but to say I’m utterly disgusted by the Rangers fans who rampaged through the city would be an understatement...
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Glasgow in 2017...at times still an amazingly backward and downtrodden place...
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Utter humiliation for Rangers today at Hampden. Treated with contempt by Celtic. The root of it is not Graeme Murty’s fault: a youth coach placed in charge by an Ibrox board singularly incapable of giving their team and its supporters a manager. A straightforward incompetence.
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I see that, even after 55 years, and well into his dotage, John Clark, all 5ft 8in of him, still wears that “don’t f*****g mess with me” look.
Pictured: two Kings of Europe.
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There’s a real boldness about the Rangers board now that Uefa are hauling the club up over bigotry. I just wish Stewart Robertson and co had shown guts - and leadership - amid the week in, week out sectarian chanting instead of sitting with their fingers in their ears. Cowardice.
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No wonder everyone from Billy McNeill to Martin O’Neill to Walter Smith to Ally McCoist loved this guy...fun and humanity pouring from him.
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What an utter joy to see this little lady again and be served her tea, cream cakes, puff pastries and cookies in her wee back garden in Glasgow.
My mother, Betty Spiers, 3 weeks short of her 91st birthday.
Made in Hawick. A remarkable generation.
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My 90 yo mother - she’s the one on the left - can no longer visit us in Ayrshire due to C-virus. So she has proposed meeting me each week at Central Station, where I’ve to put all my laundry “in a black bin bag” so she can wash/iron it and hand it back next day.
Thinking about it
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Lucky Celtic, but they are through. Out-played for much of the night by a swift and classy RB Salzburg, but their feats over 6 games have heaved the Scottish champions into the last 32. And that was one tough group to get out of. 👏
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My mum was 15 years old and a trainee typist in Hawick when VE Day was declared. Here she is pictured in 1947 at 17, by which point she was cycling 22 miles every Sunday morning to play a church organ.
I saw her last week - now 90 - where she served me tea + scones in her garden.
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Really nice pic of Pedro Caixinha at McDiarmid Park yesterday. This, more than football, is what matters.
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Mick Lynch is brilliant. He is straight out of that tradition of compelling trade union leader which Britain once specialised in: passionate, articulate, seeking justice for his members. I really admire this guy.
@JessicaLBarnard
@RMTunion
Everyone rightfully talking about his Kay Burley interview, but they way he doesn't even miss a beat in his response here. What. A. Man.
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