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Glasgow-based football writer and podder. Twitter escapee. Saw The Smiths at Magnum Leisure Centre, Irvine in 1985. Rangers, Scotland, Winton Rovers. Scraped a third from a Russell Group uni-kinda patter. https://www.youtube.com/@FatEck1999
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Classic Bodo/Glimt away result. They can usually work with that.

Man U have almost played as many European matches in Spain in the 2020s as Leeds played in Scotland in the 1960s.

Fuck me. Talk about a slap in the face. Or a pull of the shirt. Same player, same end - different VAR officials, obviously. Finishes the nonsense about Uefa wanting Athletic to reach the final but that pen & red hurts way more than us staying in the UCL League Path. #ATHMUN #ATHRAN

Fiorentina for a third straight Conference Lg final or a first ever European final for Betis? Seen both in the flesh so it's not bothering my Anorak list but I can't make up my mind. Then there's my admiration for Bodø/Glimt v the fact there's no way I'm bagging them if they never end up at Ibrox.

This season Rangers and Celtic both drew, away, in the group stage of European competition, with the club who are in that group stage because, last season, they won the next competition down. Old Firm were also eliminated from their respective Uefa Competitions by the hosts of this season's final.

Go on, Inter.

Why won't #TNTSport tell us Lamine Yamal's age? Basic fact, never mentioned. Best part was when Rio Ferdinand, trying to out-gush the commentator, brought his 4-year-old kid into the chat "They've only got thirteen years to be as good as Lamine Yamal!" I know, I know but I like the crowd noise.

Lamal is amazing. No doubt. But the orgasmic fetishization of his age by commentators is almost spoiling a phenomenal game.

To be fair, Inter at Barcelona was already my favourite Champions League semi-final. Though a wet surface on a dry night has become a topic of discussion much earlier this time.

Even if Lewandowski was playing, Henrikh Mkhitaryan would still be the only guy on the park who's scored in a European final. Well, it matters to me.

Thursday nights really are the only interesting European nights. First ever Norwegian semi-finalist. Chance of a third Swedish club reaching a European final, seventy years after they competed in the first European Cup (and hosted a game at Firhill) And Betis might - might - FINALLY final!

NEW VIDEO. Uploaded at the very moment the takeover consortium was walking round Ibrox, posing for the Season Ticket Renewal Reminders. So more irrelevant than ever. No, I didn't say "irreverent" but, well, you know me... #MadCap

Rangers' decision to disband their B team - and give earlier opportunities for the Under-18 group - represents a new attempt to bridge the first-team gap. Smith: "The quicker younger players get exposed to first-team football, in my opinion, the better.” www.rangersreview.co.uk/features/251...

For most of my life, Very Serious People maintained the polite fiction that conservatives are motivated by concern over the size of government. It was always this: an atavistic thrill at the suffering of marginalized outsiders. Always. That's the engine that runs the conservative movement.

Not saying I want Leeds to come straight back down but I do think the Union Bears should start pressuring Parag Marathe to transfer any £66M parachute payments to whichever of his ongoing soccer concerns could make best use of it.

NEW VIDEO: Fresh from discussing how depressed I was by the end of our European season, I share the unbearable agony of our domestic season continuing.

Now only requires Dallas Cowboys, Melchester Rovers and Auchinleck Talbot to complete history's first perfect CV.

Until Souness is carelessly chucking the trophy through the air to Phil Neal this isn't a proper Anfield title party. I watched plenty on the telly as a youth but what sticks out today is how Liverpool's home is now a roided-up version of its old self. It's now got scale as well as intimacy.

Two clubs sharing the top title over the last eight years. I mean, really, where's the difference between the English and Scottish setups? #hottakes #mindblown #provemewrong

"Five years since cruel circumstance so compromised their outpouring of joy. 35 years since the great Alan Hansen led out liverpool last to seal the title in front of their own. A palpable, universal yearning to celebrate" Translation: That's us kicking-off, folks. #LIVTOT

Peter "They won't need passports, they won't need visas" Drury shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Anfield in full YNWA mode. He's gushing to fatal levels of dehydration.

Is it just me or is Daniel Sturridge the most beautiful man on television, if not the planet?

Everybody talking about Liverpool recatching Man U's total of top tier titles while totally missing the bigger picture right in front of their domesticity-addled eyes: Tottenham can this season equal Liverpool's record as Britain's best club in the Fairs/Uefa Cup/ Europa League: 3 gold 1 silver.

Every grammar school boy knows Dundee United's first three major honours were secured at Dens Park but the double irony is the number of times the Old Firm have secured the top title at Tannadice.

Pishing down in Glasgow. Not bitter but may it continue all day. And night. One day a real reign is gonna come. Yes, I said reign.

Forget the takeover. Rangers best source of optimism right now is that the last four times Liverpool won the English title, we were champions of Scotland the following season.

NEW VIDEO: End of a long, glamorous, intense & successful European season I said EUROPEAN. Can't review the new owners shizzle or the domestic debacle til I've posted one last Euro pod for 2024-25. Get my Pichichis, Zarras & Bilbao busts mixed-up in a long, dull, boring, unsuccessfully synched vid.

"That's how he gets them! That's the way that little man gets them"

Yeah but can Umbro guarantee their tops will rip to prove the game's rigged against us?

London winning all three European club competitions mustn't overshadow the fact Chelsea - already the only club to have won three European comps more than once each - would become the first to win four totally separate continental compe... NO! THE SUPER CUP ISN'T A COMPETITION! IT DOESN'T COUNT!

Who knew the cure for cancer was simply recalling a time it was undiagnosed.

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

European Cup/Champs League is always the ultimate goal but does taunt us. Cup-Winners' Cup is the one we won so it's loved. But trying for this trophy rejuvenated us. Uefa Cup or Europa League, we're the only Scottish club to reach the final twice. Last 16 last season. Quarters this. Hurts so good.

Happy #Easter

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Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

NEW VIDEO: content. it's all about the content. join me for more content. so much content I'm almost incontinent with content about my contentment with Rangers on the continent. get your content here. Brexit for Rangers. I voted remain. I'm not content.

Tuesday: totally by accident, village with Britain's longest place name. Wednesday: totally by accident, smallest church in Britain. Thursday: totally unexpected, brilliant sunshine. Friday: meticulously planned visit to Britains smallest house. Wales 4-1 England (Hull has GB's smallest window)

Could almost be San Sebastian. But it definitely isn't Bilbao. Llandudno Lloyal, needing something to bite down on...