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will the scottish parliment be debating these parcel bombs today and calling for severe action from police and rangers fc ?
this kind of crap is par for the course (was almost going to say part and parcel) for the past couple of decades from rangers/ni fans in such actions towards Celtic fc players (and now supposedly their supporters).

No, the way it works in Scotland is if Rangers do wrong it becomes a joint 'old-firm' problem, and subsequent investigation

[Rangers are trying to clean up their act and to be fair they are making progress]

I seriously doubt this was the work of owc fans to be honest, I could see it being some Rangers fan from the six that claims to be a fan but in fairness the northern fans, the real fans have been working hard to eradicate cowardly gobshites like the scum that sent this to lennon and co and there is more accountability than ever from supporters on the terraces at games.

Rangers are trying to clean up their act and to be fair they are making progress, albeit slow aand i commend them for their efforts but i will say this, for people to lump in celtic and rangers fans as being two sides of the same shitty coin are way off the mark, celtic have a legacy of inclusion and rangers.......................................... well they are trying and have a way to go.

I dont see much progress in this, did UEFA not send delegates to their last 2 european games, home and away legs, and in both they were charged for sectarian and racist singing?

agree with you on the unknowledgeable people who claim celtic and rangers are 2 sides of the same coin. Celtic cannot be guilty by association

[United have been very unfortunate in the latter stages of FA Cups in recent times.]

Look - the defeat to city is sickening to United supporters especially when the final is a game city should win to end the 35 year trophy drought. Truth be told though with the money behind them it was/is going to happen some time, though it was fun while it lasted (or lasts - Stoke will have nothing to lose and are dangerous at set pieces. If they can score first they'll probably do it and as we all know, no-one does shooting themselvs in the foot quite like city).

That said, there's no way you'd swap beating city in the semi for going out to Chel$ki in the CL quarter final. Yes - winning the CL is still not likely (it will be tough enough getting by Schalke, neve mind the winners of the other semi) but I'd prefer a 3/10 chance of the CL than a 9/10 FA Cup, regardless of who wins the bloody thing. United have been very unfortunate in the latter stages of FA Cups in recent times. This is now the longest FA Cup drought for United since I was born!

Most United supporters would settle for the title at the start of the season and if that is acheived it will have been a good season.

there was nothing lucky about Citys win on Saturday, they created more chances and wanted it more it seemed and deserved their win. From about the 15th minute onwards United were very poor and never threatened

there does seem to be a little obsession creeping in among United fans regarding City but thats to be expected as they continue to progress

And this has got to hurt a little more than the Portsmouth defeat a few years ago, to whoever said it was the same.

Martin Keown
Paul Scholes
Brian McDermott Reading manager

Sam Allardyce

dont think so

he managed in the league of ireland years ago, think it was sligo rovers, he's English though

i very rarely watch the sky analysis before or after a game, theyre all singing off the one hymnsheet (building up their barclays premier league product) and afraid to tell it as it is. Roy Keane was right in saying he would rather watch a match and form his own opinions instead of listening to pundits

i'll continue not to watch it now they have employed a c**t

Somebody explain to me the difference between what Wayne Rooney did and what Harry Redknapp did in the clip below and the rationale behind punishing one but not the other?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJBsI7RAuvk&feature=related

never seen this interview before.... was it live on tv?

Yea and some joke Arry giving out about Rooney today...Should he not also of gotten a ban for that?

i dont think it was live on TV, was it??

Show on ITV4 the other night about most controversial transfers.

Gordon Strachan was on talking about Mo Johnston. Was shocked when on his 1st day in the Celtic  job he was asked why was he wearing a blue shirt. Also advised to change his blue car.

i watched that show and never heard strachan say that

it isnt a ban for swearing on a football pitch, and the FA arent setting that as a precedent. people coming out with that don't know what they're on about. If they were handing out bans for that Rooney would have been done long ago believe me, as foul mouthed as you could find

its a ban for, for no reason running to a camera and swearing several times down it deliberately, knowing full well millions of people would hear it on TV. its unprecedented by a player, i haven't seen an incident like it
combined with the fact that the FA pushed this respect campaign last week, and the fact he escaped a ban a while back - i think thats why theyve had to punish Rooney this time

United fans hilarious over this incident
blaming everyone but the culprit himself - so far ive heard them bleat about the FA, west ham fans for singing rude songs to him, and even the cameraman who shouldnt have been there apparently!
do they think Rooneys above the law every time? he was very very lucky a month ago for escaping a ban for fukk sake

short memories anyway, 8 months ago they were calling him all the names under the sun

time to act your age lads, an over-paid prima donna is banned for 2 games. Get over it

Evans has previous. But of course he isn't a dirty player
How many incidents like these has he to be involved in before he becomes one just out of interest?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs88nvpF_gw

Holden out for 6 months after the horror tackle by Evans.

Beyond the pale.

Not as bad as Carragher's though I'm led to believe.

two wrongs dont make a right though, stop trying to justify a reckless challenge by comparing it to a completely different incident

Evans studded Drogba in the chest with a kung fu kick last season and it was all a big laugh so i didn't expect much criticism for him anyway

wrong thread

what the f**k has that got to do with celtic?

[Not at all relevant to a "soccer game in Glasgow" per se.]

relevant to a soccer game in glasgow how EG?

Not at all relevant to a "soccer game in Glasgow" per se.
But relevant to the character and company of one of the major participants in a (highly controversial) "soccer game in Glasgow".

Or may we assume that if eg Ally McCoist was associated with a hood like Dowe, it wouldn't get brought up on this thread?

it's a footbll discussion thread not a have a pop at lennon thread, we could very easily throw dirt on mccoist like his affair with patsy kensit but i won't go down that road

Right enough, this thread never deviates from discussing purely on-pitch, footballing matters.

I suppose I'd better not ask how McCoist getting into bed with some (alleged) model/actress/whatever compares with Lennon getting into bed with some (alleged) fraudster/gangster/whatever, then...

if you want to go down that route, id rather have close ties with a fraudster than Andy Goram any day of the week, Cheeky chappy Coisty's best mate in football

What was the witty laid back nice guy doing here, in a photo all the tabloids seemed to miss? Trying to enter the Celtic dugout again? he seems out of control. I'm glad roles aren't reversed here or Lennon would be getting even more bad press

Pathetic behavior by the 'Rangers Supporters Trust'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/9417556.stm


theyre clearly on a cover up mission together with their board and the media in scotland to shift the blame for last weeks disgraceful indiscipline by their team solely to the shoulders of Neil Lennon. Bizarre behaviour

Only 2 days ago they were setting up a campaign that he called Diouf a n***er only for this to be denied by both Diouf and his agent.

How low are they going to stoop next?