NEW VIDEO: Sunday at 8pm and a year in the job. Time for a rant about the kick-off time, a chat about the manager and a sardonic smirk about Hagi's minutes, assist and yellow-no-sorry-it's-a-red.
SG: brilliant lads, well done
Team: thanks gaffer
SG: great comeback
Team: cheers gaffer
SG: great comeback...from 2 down
Team: right gaffer
SG: 2 down!
Team: don't gaffer
SG: imagine if...
Team: please gaffer
SG: ...if ye were THREE down
Team: fuck
SG: to AC Milan...
Standard Liege's 2-2 with Benfica didn't just mean Rangers won the group by two points; it also meant Standard have lost just one of their last 18 European home ties. Includes games v Sevilla, Arsenal, Ajax (x2) & Eintracht Frankfurt, Standard failing to score just once. Amazing.
No Alves, Dorrans, Morelos, Wallace or manager; Centre-half and goalscorer subbed off injured at half-time; Ten men for last half hour: Won. Yesterday was the day we arrived back in the top flight. Now to start making ourselves at home again.
Alfredo Morelos needs a goal for Alfredo Morelos but, let's be clear, Rangers don't need him to score for anything other than his confidence. His current role is causing havoc - and results in lots and lots and lots of Rangers goals.
Our medical staff, who couldn't get on the pitch fast enough to help Martin Boyle are now being pushed off the same pitch along with an injured Rangers player. That's Hibs for you.
2020: Celtic handed title without completing the season.
2021: Celtic get winter break brought forward as their players tire and Rangers hit form.
2022: Celtic win SPFL Prem, Rangers reach a European final.
2023: "Rangers don't get away with stuff in Europe like they do here".
Don't leave at full-time. Don't go home. Next Tuesday is the first time Rangers will play in front of a full house since laying on arguably the greatest league season in our history (respect to our 1898-99 side). Those players have earned an Ibrox lap of honour like few others.
"Everyone at Celtic recognises the difficulties presented to society by the current pandemic and the health and safety of all must always be our priority," but no way we're postponing tomorrow's game v a Covid-decimated St Mirren - yet we don't want Rangers to play them Saturday.
It's when we say to ourselves, "Ach, I just want some more European nights at Ibrox this season" then realise there can only be two more - at most Rangers can only have two more home ties in this season's Europa League - that you realise exactly what we're on the cusp of tonight.
Rangers fans who support Scotland actually want the national team as a break from Old Firm chat too. So for one of the squad to make it all about that rivalry - coz there's zero doubt that's what it was - during the best Scotland moment in years is just so fucking depressing.
Gerrard saw that in Katic about a year before we did. He knew Tav was captain 18 months before we did. Kamberi doesn't look like a Hibs cast-off. Glen Kamara only recently stopped playing at a level 100 x his transfer fee. Whatever's wrong, I'm inclined to believe Stevie G isn't.
At a time before awards are dished out, and with his captain rightly getting most of the plaudits, I hope Connor Goldson goes back through yesterday's Rangers Twitter to see it collectively shit itself when he looked for two seconds like he might be injured. We love that big guy.
Last Rangers keeper to keep a clean sheet in an Old Firm game - Robbie McCrorie.
Last Rangers player to score the first goal in an Old Firm match - Aaron Ramsey.
Last player to score a Rangers winner in an Old Firm game - Carl Starfelt.
Remember when Alfredo's attitude was a matter of national outrage? This season it couldn't be more right. Few games already where we're struggling and he's been the one on the pitch with the perfect combo of ability, tempo, concentration, application and, dare I say it, patience.
Reminder: Gio was also manager when we eliminated Dortmund with two of the greatest performances I've ever seen from Rangers.
Gerrard was manager when we chucked the Champs Lg v Malmo.
Hibs beamer in the League Cup? No manager.
The players? 55 and four years of European joy.
The only Ranger to score from open play in the Champions League group stages in a dozen years. Scored in both last season's Hampden semis. His two injury time goals in December turned a Pittodrie defeat into a win. Scored our first league goal this season. Scored our last goal.
Rangers have lost 3 of 53 games this season. Shite as our cup exits were, our opponents had to play the game of their lives to beat us in injury time and on penalties after equalising on 122 minutes. Only v Slavia were we even remotely outclassed and that was in a UEFA last 16.
Oh no. Did Patrice Evra just give Eni Aluko a round of applause for perfectly summing up Costa Rica? For, like, knowing about the teams they are there to comment on?
#cringe
#ITV
#WorldCup
Yet again Colak fails to score a second goal in a game. Simply cannot score a brace. It's only August but that's FIVE times this season already. Sick of it...
Celtic were made to play AFTER Rangers on Thursday then BEFORE Rangers today. AND they had to travel today - and have you ever been on that M8 in the rain?! - while Rangers are at HOME. Operation Stop Nine In a Row can build 100 extra roundabouts in Almondvale; This ain't over.
So being a real Scot is to show a visitor zero hospitality? Not even the basic of providing them with training facilities? Ahead of a sporting occasion? A friendly match at that? If being a real Scot is just being a hate-filled bigot, you can keep it, pal.
Come on, Scotland!💪
Closest we ever came to winning the Champions League. Closest we ever came to winning the Uefa Cup. Closest thing Rangers supporters of my generation had to a second father.
Made so many hopes and dreams come true. It's not like Walter to break our hearts. But today he has.
My favourite league season of any team purely from a stats and giggles pov, is Milan's legendary 1993-94 Serie A triumph on the back of just 36 goals scored in a 34 game campaign. Built on their defence, on Baresi & Costacurta - even they conceded two more than Rangers 2020-21.
"You let your club die" certainly scans a lot easier than "you've averaged over 40,000 at home for three decades straight now while we barely half-filled our far smaller ground and then wondered why we won fuck all of any note and sometimes got relegated from the top flight"
Let's clear this up - Coldplay fans cannot support Rangers.
This is facts. Your morals and ideals literally go against every tradition that our club has.
You cannot claim to be a Rangers supporter but vehemently like tuneless emoting that thinks it's Radiohead. It's a package.
That was absolutely fu**ing tremendous, Rangers. Could all end next Thursday but - man - we just keep stretching this Europa League magnificence. What a magical era this has been for us in this tournament, at a time in our history when we needed it most too.
Representin.
The absolute thirst to paint Mick Lynch as a bad actor.
BBC host: "Shouldn't you know her name, Mick?! She's a Labour front bencher!"
"I don't know her name because I'm in a remote studio and can't see anyone's face and haven't been introduced to anyone"
#PoliticsLive
A disgusting response from an institution. Abdicating responsibility. Gaslighting and dangerous hypocrisy. Fails to acknowledge they banned the same fan group from their own stadium and insinuates we're harming the women's game when we're trying to protect what makes it special.
Aberdeen were under-prepped then under-staffed in our two wins over them so far this season and we're the last side to beat them in the league. Last term we pumped them 5-0 in October before they then held us home & away. McInnes always gets them back to a level: Sunday's a war.
Funny how Goldson cost us the Europa League final now rather than Ramsey for missing his pen, McGregor for not saving any, Alfredo Morelos for being a fat, unfit disgrace or Kent for again failing to get numbers. Everything now is reduced - traduced - to perfection or scapegoats.
A month's worth of rain to fall in one day in the West of Scotland? When 95% of any rainfall usually lands on Paisley, there must be real concern tomorrow's game could be postponed.
Just in case, I've broken in and put the sprinklers on.
I usually moan that Best Goal awards needs to distinguish between "move of the season" and "finish of the season". Yet here Kemar beats half the Standard team on his tod, moves the ball further on own than most team moves manage, and finishes like a god: It's genre transcendent.
The absolute lust for Rangers fans to misbehave. That we didn't clearly won't change your mind about us, but that you're gutted we didn't should tell you something about yourself.
What everyone has forgotten is the previous season Liverpool (no league title in 30 years) and Juve (trying to extend a Serie A record) both refusing to claim the league they were top of without playing the rest of that season's games. Not when people were dying. Celtic though...
Erling Haaland announced last week he'd be leaving Dortmund at the end of the season. Surely they can't have that kinda disloyalty in the dressing room - get rid of him in the January window...
Remember them high-fiving each other near full-time at Hampden for kicking Ian bloody Black? All the running onto the track to goad our fans? Blanking our manager's hand shake? Nice to see Scott Brown's Celtic career end the way it deserves to: Totally disrespected by the sport.
Last two games Tav has scored three pens, missed a pen, handed a pen to a team-mate, conceded a pen, teed up the winner for our best domestic away result this season - in the 95th min of an epic - and removed any last, lingering doubt that he's a Rangers captain.
RIP, Ronnie McKinnon. Central to the great Rangers treble-winning team of 1963-64, the Scotland side which beat world champions England at Wembley in 1967 and his Ibrox career only ended by a leg break in Lisbon in 1971 as he played his part in Rangers only European trophy win.
@swansonian
Between every line it screams "Why can't I just go back to being openly racist, homophobic and misogynistic?".
The good old days when everyone thought Jimmy Saville was just wacky...
Whoever we draw tomorrow, one thing can't be taken away: As
@moonman1873
told us last Thursday, we were the last Scottish team to reach a European 1/4 final, in 2008, and we've since been to the bottom tier of our domestic scene, come back up top... and reached another one.
Time to start remembering how good Tillman was in Eindhoven when he had Lawrence outside him... and his age... and that it's October... and that Liverpool are the real deal. We can be upset he was selected for Tuesday, and where, but would be daft to write this lad off.
"So, you're in a group with Feyenoord, Porto and Young Boys Bern?"
Yup.
"And you beat both Feyenoord and Porto at home?"
Correct.
"And you got a point away to both?"
Mm-hmm.
"But you're not through yet?"
Nope.
"Got it - you're Rangers!"
Too easy?
"Yeah. Bit obvious."
The only possible take from this video, if you watch it all, is how much Connor Goldson has been through, how he has more than earned anything football has given him and how lucky any club would be to have him as a living example of total professionalism.
A very happy 96th birthday to Willie Rae - a man who won every major domestic trophy at Rangers, including two league titles, with our legendary post-war side and who puts real Iron Curtain bite into the phrase "still going strong". Mr Struth would be proud.
Let's play ... spot the 96-year-old former Ranger midfielder. So our
@Dianewriter
was out and about monitoring mask wearers on public transport in this article
when she came across this handsome fella. Come on Rangers fans, who is he? Clue, it ain't Gazza
Let's clear this up - people who eat tinned tuna in brine cannot support Rangers.
This is facts. Your morals and ideals literally go against every tradition that our club has.
You cannot claim to be a Rangers supporter but vehemently hate tuna in sunflower oil. It's a package.
"Diego's in danger of becoming a laughing stock" says the middle-aged man who presented MOTD in his pants coz he thinks he's still ripped. While you were gettin yer Golden Boot then taking your tally to ten, Maradona was winning the World Cup then getting to the final again.
The stuff sung about and chanted at Rangers fans is never a factor, not even for Rangers fans.
It's not whataboutery - it's a plea for context, proportionality and balance.
Answering with a crazed determination to paint all Rangers fans as "black shirts" is simply hatred.
First time we've ever won three games in a four-team group. Might not need to win next week to seal top spot but we've never won four group games. And the only other season Rangers have gone undefeated through a four-team group?
@moonman1873
called it on
@GersnetOnline
...
This is SNP rhetoric. This is their level of debate. If you want Scotland to remain in the UK you're Ian Paisley or Pastor Jack Glass, and you're "scared" while they're all bravehearts. This man can't understand the world unless he frames everyone else as being as bigoted as him.
I’ve come to the conclusion that if these unionists having their wee hissy fits had been on the Titanic they’d have refused to go in the lifeboats as…‘I’m not taking a chance on that, I like the Titanic because…eh it’s British and it’s safer on here than that wee boat.’
"They're holding hands with Arthur Scargill" cries the man who sells peerages to Putin's mates.
Scargill tried to secure jobs for workers. The seethe on the face of some of these Tories as they castigate workers and human rights. They despise you for not being born rich.
#PMQs
Brendan Rogers just said Zenit St Petersburg is a lovely city. This is the cleverest man in Scottish football. Now I know why "concomitant" caused such a stir.
The "Vladimir Corbyn" line exemplifies the MO of a gaslighter voted in by gaslighters: Johnson has the same attitude to critics as Putin, is funded by pro-Putin oligarchs, knows Starmer would never call him Adolf and that a laugh counts for more than the graves he's dancing on.
MPs are not allowed to accuse eachother of lying but the PM is allowed to hurl the worst abuse imaginable by calling Jeremy Corbyn, "Vladmir". How is this acceptable. Can members start calling eachother Adolf? What is going on
@LindsayHoyle_MP
(Rangers have lost one of their last 22 at home - the last game any of us were at. Opponents other than Bayer Leverkusen include Benfica, Villarreal, Porto, Braga, Feyenoord, Legia Warsaw, Rapid Vienna, Galatasaray, Spartak Moscow and... - ooh - Standard Liege.)
@DanielCorter13
@esjesjesj
"Being present in the United States without legal documentation is in itself not a crime. Though some of the ways of entering the US may be considered federal crimes, the act of being here without legal documentation is not considered a federal crime."
SFA taking no action against Ange Postecoglu because throwing hysterical, spoiled-wean insults at referees is the natural (reflex) movement for any Celtic manager.
Anti-football.
Yooz died.
Here we go ten in a row.
Can you see the Rangers comin.
Yooz won it in empty stadiums.
Brendan knows.
Europe's just your comfort blanket.
Points on the board is what counts.
A goal ahead with 13 games left is what counts.
Emoji, emoji, emo... 🥺
Every time we draw Lyon in Europe we reach a European final. Every time they host us in a pre-season tournament we win the league title unbeaten. Neither Lyon nor Rangers have ever beaten the other at home.
The final vestiges of football's decency went with Walter. Refs hounded as cheats, by paid pundits, when they actually make a great call; Ryan Porteous' criminal negligence only a thing now he's doing it to non-Rangers players: Not a sport anymore - it's competitive gaslighting.
MILAN, BENFICA, ROMA: Massive. Let's have it.
MARSEILLE: Repeat. Reminisce. Revenge.
FREIBURG: Interesting. Hard. Doable.
SPORTING: Law of averages. They have to beat us one day ffs.
QARABAG: Fresh. Winnable. So far, far away.
SPARTA PRAGUE: Clatty. Mingin. Creepy. Get tae.
Funny thing: I'm almost phobic about blaming refs whenever watching Rangers - can't trust my judgement and don't want our players using officials as excuses - but just watched Scunthorpe clearly being cost 2 points by the ref at Oxford. Don't care about either team. Fuming.
That Beale wasn't sacked yesterday, last night or probably even today is not "a sign of how poorly this club is run". It's the opposite.
Plus when have Bennett & Bisgrove ever been slow to wield the axe.
It'll get done and it'll get done right.
A replacement is the hard bit.
Pundits on Morelos' hot-headedness: "I'd certainly be doing all I could to rile him and get him sent off"
Pundits on Morelos riling opponents and getting them sent off: "disgrace".
Every Tweeter claiming outrage at Rangers protecting Lennon & Sutton from even the potential of even one fan getting as over-excited at a football match as football media demands we do, is raging because the pair weren't harmed at Ibrox. The rabid lust for martyrdom is sickening.
Apart from the two European finals, overhead kick goal in an Old Firm Scottish Cup win, four league titles, goal in an OF League Cup final win, six major cups, only goal of an OF league win, leading his country to the Euros and more caps than any bloke in Britain, WHAT'S HE DONE?
💙
@StevenDavis8
- A
#RangersFC
Legend
Steven Davis MBE, Rangers’ Hall of Fame midfielder, has today announced his retirement from professional football.
👉
Be angry yesterday, at full-time. Maybe even into the evening. But today it's time to remember we reached a European final 9 games ago and won the Scottish Cup 8 games ago. It needs tweaking, not wrecking.
If Ross Wilson doesn't get a decent fee for Ross Wilson then I'm sorry but that's another shocking failure by Ross Wilson and, for me, Ross Wilson will have to go.
To where he's already going.
But just quicker.
An entire calendar month winning every league game without conceding a goal - an entire calendar year without losing a single league match at home; a manager achieving legendary status by bringing us 55 is replaced by a manager who steps us up another gear. Yup; 2021 was staunch.
Very happy with that. Yes, we should have scored more but the general trend is what the last month is all about. The December fixtures may have been cut short (against our will) but we have won them all and we have also extended our lead. That's a huge positive.
This is so important, not just to let the players who've never been at Parkhead know they're not alone today but to get them into the mood. Absolutely class. Well done, all involved.
"We've all scored in Old Firm wins"
"Me too!", shouts Roofe... and Davis... and Kent... and Defoe from the bench... and Katic from the East Enclosure...
"I've set up two of their OGs" shouts Aribo.
"Not havin that, Joe" Tweets captain Tav, who once curled in the opener...
Cancellation of the Sydney Obfuscation Cup will feel like a victory for all of the two seconds it takes to realise the leaked announcement was both the real game and an outright victory for Celtic.
Rangers lost the moment we agreed to be involved.
Got a ticket for the Scottish Cup final. Might not be the biggest news in town right now but it means the absolute world to me, knowing I'll see us again, one more time, before this epic season is over. I let myself down re Seville but the Rangers family never lets ye down.💙🍻
All the best, Sam. Gave it your all, did what you were told and, like the vast majority of us in life, it was all part of finding your level.
Ignore the insulting comments. They're from folk who're also slagging each other about two strikers who haven't even signed for us yet.
#RangersFC
can confirm that Sam Lammers has joined Dutch side FC Utrecht on loan for the rest of the season, subject to international clearance.
💙 Good luck Sam.
"No other fans of any club behave in this way".
THIS. This is text book bigotry. And when it's a professor spouting such screaming nonsense it blows away the notion that education is the answer. You either hate to a point of willful ignorance or you don't.
From losing 5-0, when it's difficult to spot anything we did right, to losing 1-0 when you can see PRECISELY where it went wrong, be that a foul we wanted (I thought it was soft) or a player not chasing back enough (Ejaria gave everthing on Thursday). Growing pains. Growing fast.
Postecoglu was just over six months as manager when he got his first Old Firm victory, Beale just under. Both were 3-0 home wins.
Ange had used the rearranged mid-season break to revitalise his squad for a second time. Mick joined mid-season, had one window and a board in flux.
@MartinRemains
Yup. Never got the old "turn that off - I can't abide him/her" when it came to politics. Always wanted to know my enemy. But there's nothing political about what Johnson's doing and I don't enjoy feeling hatred. Plus now we all know he's always only doing something totally venal.