“We were told the SFA shuts at 5pm on a Friday" - Scottish Football 2016/17

I'm working so I'm going to miss it. Fucking bastids.

Tell Rodney to get a fucking move on

https://mobile.twitter.com/Liam_O_Hare/status/772946182968606720

as so often with him, i'm torn between chuckling and thinking "you're a mean man and spend your time exploiting your power dynamic as the boss to make others look stupid and you look like a funny cleverclogs"

oh and hey while i'm being a curmudgeon! doncaster is talking about allowing 2 premiership teams to enter colt sides into league 2; do ilxors have any idea which two spl sides might be offered this competitive advantage, and what fair, transparent and equitable process might have been undertaken in order to decide?

Have to do some freelance work in Bridgeton of all places tomorrow - dreading it tbh (think I'm going to get in very very early)

admire the "well we're already called paddy so it's not like we're going to feel the effects of a boycott" vibe to this

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/774188001396158464

as so often with him, i'm torn between chuckling and thinking "you're a mean man and spend your time exploiting your power dynamic as the boss to make others look stupid and you look like a funny cleverclogs"

Definitely the second one. Funny or not it's clear he's now permanently a bitter wee guy getting his own back on the world.

yeah he doesn't mind bullying people does he

the fuck, Celtic, letting these clowns back into the match right before half time?

Turning out swell though.

That'll do.

just popping in to say "lol"

Indeed. Well and truly skelped.

That was quite enjoyable. Senderos and Barton are a bit rubbish, eh?

Hahahaha rangers are shite

Is that really the challenge Scottish football has been missing?

Well done Cammy Bell on today's other hat trick.

<3 Lustig's beachball hat celebration!

Cammy Bell:

https://youtu.be/rdONmv35a3U

(far be it for me to suggest he probably didn't get much experience of having to face penalties at Ibrox....)

Got a feeling Barcelona vs. Celtic is going to be reminiscent of Celtic vs. Rangers.

In that the home team will destroy the opposition.

We'll be lucky to escape with 5-1 tbh.

id take 5-1 haha

Keeping it down to single figures might be all we can hope for.

Well, this wasn't quite the night I wanted Barcelona to rediscover their innate Barcelonaness.

ilxors ananimus (onimo) wrote this on thread "You've no right to be angry with John Collins". SPFL, season 2015/2016 on board I Love Football on 03-Feb-2016

I can't even.

I mean.

Fuckin

We're just gonnae try out a completely new formation with players making champs league debuts away at fuckin Barcelona. Aye ok Brendan. Give it a go. What could go wrong?

Also, quit fucking fannying about at penalties. Blooter the fucker. Jesus.

We were always going to get beat. But we didn't have to get totally humped.

Fear what might Aguero might do to us, fair enough getting murdered by Barcelona but Man City would be too much to bear.

ho ho ho

http://stv.tv/sport/football/1367209-joey-barton-s-rangers-future-in-doubt-after-training-ground-row/

also chucklesome:

People keep asking me if I'm okay. Of course we're okay.

barton obv remorseful. thought he was coming up to skoosh the league and win some silverware for once, realized pre-season how guff the team is - and with the visit to the 6 counties probably cottoned on to how horrendous the fanbase is - and now he doesn't want to be there. how bad must his strop have been to have him telt to stay away from the training ground?

the press, after really warmly welcoming and praising warburton to the hilt, seems to have taken against him after the poor start to the league.

the fact that the next Glasgow derby is scheduled for lunchtime Hogmanay is hilarious. wish I was home for it (or do I? maybe better to think of myself as out of harm's way).

I'd agree that Barton may be having second thoughts - never saw it myself but a Rangers supporting colleague said there was a post-match interview with Barton sfter the Hamilton draw where he looked surprised that they'd been given a game. I'm all for players coming up here and finding it not as easy as they expected.

As for Warburton, he kind of has a point about the hysterical negativity of the Scottish media, particularly when it comes to Rangers and Celtic.

he has a point about the negativity but he's coming across very poorly while making it. seems thin-skinned, overly-defensive, and as if he's trying to deflect attention/lessen the import of the weekend's result/performance

I agree with all of that, Jim.

Read earlier on Twitter that Barton said during his wee rant that "my son is older than this club". I really want that to be true.

from a satirical feed

a not particularly funny and not overly followed feed at that

Oh, read it from a couple of folk, wasn't sure where they'd got it from. Ah well.

how amused folk can be by new club jokes 4 years into the new club bemuses me

I am easily amused.

Also seeing how irate some folk can get at the very suggestion that their club might have been liquidated (when, y'know, it happened) still makes me chuckle, so a wee slapdown now and then is a cheap giggle.

As an aside to this, there's a team in our local pub quiz who used to have a variety of Rangers-related team names prior to liquidation (my favourites were when they changed it to Red Whyte "make sure it's spelled with a Y" and Blue the week our favourite googly-eyed charlatan rode into town, and also "you reap what you sow" when the new club rocked up in the third division. They then settled on Team 54 in honour of the league titles won until their demise. When their team won the third division, they changed their name to Team 55 to hoots of derision from everyone else in the pub, then Team 56, then a wee wait until changing again to Team 57. Then they thought about it at the start of the season so they're back to Team 54 again. Which presumably they'll be keeping for a while.

I suggested Team Zero and got glowered at.

also "you reap what you sow" when the new club rocked up in the third division

also re barton above, totally agree this is about regrets, but wonder if that goes both ways too - the very heavy punishment being the gers hoping for an excuse to boost him a la sandaza. He's looked like a staggering waste of money in the (admittedly few) highlights I've seen..

Yeah, there's also that. Clears a five figure weekly sum off the wage bill that lets them bring in true reinforcements. Or keep the lights on.

Superb stuff from us today. Having half an hour of dominance then conceding a wonder goal all looked a wee bit last season but the reaction was really good. Dembele looked deadly and Rogic showed amazing control throughout. I'm finally coming round to Tierney being a better option than Izzy.

Shame we've got Sergio coming to destroy all our confidence this Wednesday.

"I'm not going to answer questions from the general public"

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/watch-gordon-strachan-deliver-sarky-9000645

Such a dick

exciting times for the jam tarts then

P 38 W 34 D 4 L 0 F 106 A 25 Pts 106

No' bad, eh? Wouldn't have thought that at the start of the season when we were utterly shite against Lincoln Red Imps.

Also good riddance to Caley Thistle.

thank fuck that season's over

aaah poor aberdeen :(

great game that. congrats to ilxor celticers

congrats must have worn a bit thin by now

oh for sure

and now u've pointed out i see it's p much all i've posted here this season

congrats to me on failing to walk the tightrope b/tw magnanimity and sycophancy

Never in doubt :-)

Never saw this season coming during the dark days of Lincoln Red Imps away, eh?

was just going to say, we'll always have gibraltar etc

Talk about irritating, entitled Celtic fans, I was working today and found myself hoping it went to extra time so I could find a pub to watch Celtic winning the treble at least half an hour of the game.

get in!

Scotland 1 Brazil 0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40144470

howling

Was going to start a new thread and make the first couple of hundred posts just "hahahahahahahaha".

Dying here.

Oh my good God!!!!!!!

To be fair though, Rangers FC had never played in Europe before.

ahahahahaha

HMRC win the big tax case. Grab your popcorn.

Uneventful start to the new season.

Should probably start a new thread, eh?

Indeed, I forgot we've got Celtic vs. the DUP Linfield to look forward to, huzzah!

Surely they can appeal the result

Yesterday's I mean

supreme court unanimously rejected appeal

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/462883/supreme-court-rejects-rangers-appeal-big-tax-case-articleisfree/

we need to strip the titles.

SFA have already said no further punishments I believe.

they have, but the clubs and supporters should really be pressuring them.

the lord nimmo smith garbage makes no sense in light of this verdict (well even less than it previously did)

Undoubtedly but I don't see that working, tbh (xp)

in my dream world the Celtic support (and at least also the Dons) would boycott Hampden this season, the club would not allow players to go on international duty for Scotland friendlies. Anti-SFA banners and chanting etc. Really make the bastards squirm.

Lennon had better get the Hibees on to it too.

i don't see how regan or doncaster can possibly stay in post

(i fully expect regan and doncaster to stay in post)