What an utter shitshow, on so many levels! 🙄🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Anglicisation of European football

Integrity concerns have also been raised over the recent FIFA U17 World Cup, Champions League regulars, La Liga clubs, and across youth football. Sneak peek of what is to come across the series ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...

The good news is she’s talking about Tyler Fletcher

Hydration breaks are bad enough, but this shows they're turning into mini half-times, with team talks, tactics etc - that changes the game. I'm not accepting this major change to the game I love just so the American TV networks can sell more advertising.

😭😭😭 gutted for wee Billy, he's my favourite player, absolutely love watching him play. Only consolation is we have really good strength in depth in midfield.

"He's got to score it" I tell you what, Ally McCoist is some mathematician

Absolutely gutted that wee Billy Gilmour will miss the World Cup 😭😭😭

That's football. Shit happens. Gabriel? The best player tonight. This said, whoever is rejoicing in the success of a club built on the money of a dictatorship holding together through the systematic exploitation of 90% of its population should take some time to reflect on their world view. Bisous!

Reform are planning ICE-style ethnic cleansing, with no other precedent AFAIK in a peacetime democracy, tearing apart our country & probably causing mass civil unrest. You’d think our national broadcaster might give us a bit more analysis than just “2 fascists have pinsized disagreement”, but

Shankland was superb last season alongside the hard-working, more mobile Braga in a front two. The prospect of a front pairing of him and Chermiti next season should be terrifying for the rest of the league.

Rangers confirm Lawrence Shankland has joined from Hearts on a 2+1 contract.✍️

FWIW Dan Neil captained Sunderland to the EPL (at 22 or something) then lost his place cos they spent tens of millions on new midfielders, including the man now known as their greatest ever player - Xhaka - in his role. I think he'd be a very good signing on a free.

Actually I've always thought Shankland's was the best goal v Denmark

English teams won the Europa and Conference League last year, had both Europa finalists, now Europa and will probably win Conference this year too. Huge imbalance in resources is making it near-impossible for teams from other leagues to compete.

Only justification for Grant Hanley going to the World Cup is the SHEER JOY of the IDEA of him blootering Neymar, let's hope he gets the chance 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Another absolutely cracking effort and well worth your time. Honoured to be a wee part of it too

I was at the final in Seville. We came SO close. That moment at the end, Kent’s shot saved, Davis’s follow-up shot gets deflected…TWICE! If ever anyone was due some credit in the bank…and some patience, it was Gio.

As sickened as I am by the ref & VAR decisions against Hearts/for Celtic that swung the title race, trying to remember that 2 weeks ago - before I became a Jambo - Hearts got loads of dodgy decisions in their favour. Anyone remember Shankland's goal & Cornelius' disallowed goal at Ibrox?

Like being a Rangers fan. Are we unmanageable? Are we sacking managers too quickly? Or do we keep appointing the wrong guy?

Definitely had a big impact, cos he started Miovski v Motherwell to keep the 4-2-2-2 and they passed it right through his/our press, that was the start of our collapse. Miovski excellent as a late sub to get a goal but cannot play the gegenpressing game Rohl prefers to start (with his 4-2-2-2).

Let him who hasn't been given £5 million to buy himself a house and lots of other nice stuff throw the first stone.

He's right. A series of horrendous decisions, all going Celtic's way, in the last few weeks, culminating last night with the worst of them all.

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Judging by the media coverage, the biggest scandal in English football history is that a "spy" was spotted at a training ground, not that so many of its clubs are owned by brutal regimes, private equity grifters and gangsters, and take the money of quasi-criminal crypto companies and bookies.

Last two weeks clarify that VAR needs to go. It’s damaging the game. We could take the occasional errors before because they happened in the moment however egregious. People are human. But this is sucking the joy and emotion out of the game … and making everyone angry all of the time.

We all want better, but quick fixes never last. We have never committed to building for sustained success. It’s always win the title or your days are numbered. But we’ve never built the club to get and sustain success. It’s just change the manager again…and again…and again.

No one really knows. Many Scots still judge him on the player they remember 5 years ago. I personally find it odd that the fastest player in one of the top leagues in the world, who plays regularly, is deemed inferior to players from lesser quality leagues for a national team with no attacking pace.

I'm always sympathetic to this view. I didn't want us to sack Gio or Beale or Clement. I think Rohl has fewer excuses than any of them. We've had very few injuries, spent lots of money, been up against a very poor Celtic (abd Hearts and Motherwell FFS). We can't do another mid-season change.

The way we surrendered the game, 2nd place and possibly the title in the first 10 mins of the 2nd half today was absolutely infuriating. Wtf did Rohl tell them?! Surrendered on Monday v Hearts and did the same again today. We're third in a two-horse race: it's over for Danny Rohl.

We have looked really good at times under Rohl. But the way we have collapsed has been infuriating. I don't think he's got any credit left in the bank with fans and it's surely better to give Gerrard or Askou a full pre-season.

Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Tice can't find it in him to condemn someone for saying that Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes.

Bringing Antman in from the cold, after ASO on Monday, shows we've never understood that RW position this season. I hope he can have an impact. Might have started Dujon over Tav but it's a tight call atm. Formation is right, assuming Raskin & Naderi miss out due to injury.

Holy shit they did the meme.

Nah the Old Firm on Sunday is really important for us. We must stop them winning the league (potentially the double). We must also give ourselves a chance of 2nd. We cannot meekly accept 3rd place.

Second to react to everything. A shambles of a second half.

Thinking, with sympathy, of the abundance of non-white workers in the healthcare system who look after - and look out for - men like this every single day.

We've dominated Hearts, they've barely got a sniff of the ball and look nowhere near a title-winning side. Anxiety will grow if we continue to dominate & control the game. Hearts are there for the taking if we can get a 2nd then just knock it about and frustrate them.

Still laughing about Katie, in last night's Race Across The World, gazing at the intricate brickwork of an ancient Kazakh temple and saying "must've been such a faff".

Forty-six days before the World Cup is due to start, political officials aligned with the fascist governing party are threatening the security of matches unless municipalities cooperate with their gestapo's efforts to terrorise non-white residents.

We’ve conceded 8 goals in the last 3 league games. You can’t win a title with stats like that.

Pure loving this Pope by the way, what a guy 🔥🔥🔥

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Last week, Fifa announced their first World Cup prediction markets partner. They said it would launch yesterday. It didn't. Today, they set only a demo version live... "ADI Predictstreet is currently operating in a free-to-play demonstration environment for testing and entertainment purposes only."

An impressive 1-0 win for Japan against one of the tournament favourites, followed three days later by a 1-0 win against England

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Celtic have now failed to beat Rangers over 90 minutes for NINE consecutive games. At the same time Rangers have now lost the last SIX games v them in the cup (last three AET/pens).

If we end up losing this on pens it will be an absolute travesty

Miles on top in every way. Absolutely sickening to lose on a shoot-out.