Are Rangers FC fans ready for a major culture change at the club? We discuss Rangers fans’ banner controversy at Ibrox, Old Firm fan conduct, and a potential seachange in club values.
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The Journos Highlights:
00:00 Intro – PLZ Soccer’s The Journos
Peter Martin welcomes viewers
01:00 Ayr United vs Partick Thistle and Inter Milan vs Barcelona
A humorous take on the differing appeal of Scottish Championship games compared to European football.
01:26 Champions League Semi-Finals Reaction
The panel discuss how this season has delivered a vintage Champions League with thrilling knockout games, standout ties, and incredible drama.
03:05 Praise for Attacking Football & Coaching Evolution
Conversation on modern tactical evolution, especially among elite coaches like Hans-Dieter Flick and Simone Inzaghi, focusing on entertainment and attack-minded setups.
04:54 Influence of Pep Guardiola & Manchester City
Gordon highlights Guardiola’s compressed, high-pressing game as a blueprint elite clubs have followed.
05:26 Football Player Athleticism & Technical Growth
Hugh notes how modern players are more athletic and technically balanced across the pitch, eliminating past archetypes like the “lump it” centre-half.
06:59 PSG’s Transformation Without Messi, Neymar and Mbappe
Praise for PSG’s transformation without Messi, Neymar, and Mbappé. Credit given to their coach and team ethic over Galáctico culture.
13:28 Dessers Rangers Stats – Should Rangers Sell Him?
In-depth talk on Cyril Dessers’ mixed time at Rangers. Stats vs performances, and debate on whether he’s worth a new chance or should be moved on.
18:33 Celtic’s Transfer Failures & Oh Hyeon-gyu
Panel criticise Celtic’s big spend on Oh and the decision-making process that led to it. Debate around whether he has a future or not.
23:00 Rangers Takeover Bid 49ers & Financial Strategy
Scepticism over supposed new investment at Rangers. Discussion of financial constraints and the reality of modern football budgets.
25:21 Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic Future
Is this Rodgers’ final season? The panel discusses whether the Celtic board will back him with high-quality signings and what happens if they don’t.
29:13 Old Firm Fan Conduct, Sectarianism & Rangers’ Statement
Strong views on banners, chants, and sectarian behaviour. Rangers’ statement is examined as a potential cultural shift from the incoming board.
34:04 Rangers FC Culture & Club Identity Change Under New Owners
Gordon argues this is the most direct stance Rangers have taken in decades. Hugh and Alison agree it may mark a pivotal shift, but the challenge lies in generational change.
39:04 Banishing vs Tolerating Football Fans Who Cross the Line
Debate over whether clubs should condemn or actively ban fans engaging in unacceptable behaviour.
41:00 Hearts FC £9.8M Investment by Tony Bloom
Analysis of Brighton owner Tony Bloom’s potential £10m investment in Hearts. Questions about fan ownership, long-term strategy, and whether it signals a trend.
44:51 Hearts FC Fans Divided on Investment
Some within the Foundation of Hearts remain sceptical of external control. Hugh reveals behind-the-scenes insight on dissenting views.
46:41 Wider Trend of Overseas Investment in Scottish Football Clubs
The panel explores how foreign owners see Scottish football as undervalued, with strategic buys (like Hearts, Hibs, and Rangers) offering big potential.
47:39 Derek McInnes Hearts Manager Rumours
Discussion on why McInnes, Robinson, or McGlynn weren’t considered earlier. Questions raised about Hearts’ recruitment strategy and football expertise on the board.
50:15 Hugh’s 70th Birthday Celebration
Tribute to Hugh MacDonald’s long career, wisdom, and enduring love of football. Cake presented in studio.
52:02 Football’s Enduring Joy
Hugh reflects on eight decades of football fandom and journalism, reaffirming his passion for the game.
More to Watch:
Ian Durrant on his bust-up with Graeme Souness: https://youtu.be/XI7dE1ooR5c
Martin O’Neill “I’ve never forgiven Jose Mourinho”: https://youtu.be/HIRkTHwD6Gc
Martin O’Neill on his time at Celtic: https://youtu.be/in25WpJJnI0
Neil Lennon one-to-one interview: https://youtu.be/RMtX1MpB-70
David Martindale behind the scenes at Livingston: https://youtu.be/6yI6psxcfGE
Lisbon Lion Berti Auld interview: https://youtu.be/7x1ONLU8Z0s
Gordon Strachan’s Dream Team: https://youtu.be/Zs3Qt3oi1nM
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Welcome to the Journals on PLZ Soccer’s YouTube channel. I’m Peter Martin. Hugh McDonald, Gordon Parks, and Allison McConnell are here with me. Thank you to you for your support over the course of the season. There’s lots more to come as far as programming is concerned on our YouTube channel and right across our social media. And if you download the app, you’ll get all the breaking news at your fingertips. And more importantly, all the content that we’re giving you is absolutely free. If you want additional content, lots of unique stuff, we’re offering it on PLZ Premium. Uh you can follow the link on our YouTube channel and subscribe to that, too. Um but there’s lots of stuff coming up in the new season to look forward to. Lots to talk about. Of course, we love our football. We certainly love it when you sit down. Somebody sent me a text and saying, "I’ve got friends over. we’ve got the television on and we’re going to sit down and we’re going to have a right good night watching uh Air United against Party Thistle. To which I then replied, "Are you off your head? Get the friends out and get Inter Barcelona off." Um I shouldn’t probably say that because somebody will jump on my head and say, "I thought you were sporting Scottish football." But there are some times you when you have to draw a line. Could be worse. You could have been at party [Laughter] not terrific game. Terrific game. I think we talked we kind of briefly touched on it last week. What this has been a vintage Champions League. Yeah. I mean they just great knockout games. People interested in the whole process etc etc. But last night was I mean I just see what I thought when I was just watching it, you know. And the cake, by the way, is for my 70th birthday. Yes, I was going to say and case people I was going to leave it there and then get people really stimulated by the thought. Why is there a cake sitting there? We’ll get to that. I just thought I’d mention it before I pass away, you know. Uh, and I was just sitting at 70 years age watching that game and I went to myself, I just love football, you know, that way you just see is there anything better than just sitting down watching a great football match and whole thing compounded I think by at one point being sure that at Halime and are going and then 20 minutes 30 minutes later saying no I’m sure that Spars are going to going to going to going to stroll us at one point. So absolutely terrific stuff. Yeah, great to watch. One of those ones where you are jumping again. If you’re jumping up and down and shouting in the room on your own when you’re on the couch, there’s it means you’ve got an absolute belter, doesn’t it, Alli? But I was going to say uh the other aspect of it is you looked at last week’s game, you thought there’s no way there’s no way they can replicate that. 18 minutes into I’m thinking I really enjoy watching it, but there’s no goals. This is rubbish. And then boom, the whole place. thought it was brilliant. 13 goals in a Champions League semi-final. How many semi-finals have you watched are KG tense, boring, you know, neither team wanting to to lose it. I thought it was the antithesis of that the whole tie. I thought it was brilliant. Just great entertainment just when you watch it. Both teams want to win it. Committed to attack, going for really exciting individual players, too. The other thing I was going to say, Gordon, I wonder if you know, as well as giving great credit to the players, I wonder if we should give great credit to coaches and coaches in general in the Champions League format, the new format, because the format itself has has delivered some really good matches. Does Hansy Flick and Zagi deserve credit because of the way they approach the game? Because as Allison mentioned there, I’ve seen some semi-finals and they’ve been absolute durge. I think the game’s evolved recently and I think the approach from top elite managers is now about entertainment and it is about playing with wing backs forward certainly wingers and the emphasis is to go and attack now and attack with you’re talking about top top level players with great abilities and creative sparks and real top notchotch strikers and I think that’s why you’re getting these kind of absolute extravaganza games. You’re right. I think there has been a recent I think so. I mean, look at the top end now. You’re looking at attacking sides. Look at Flick as well. Flick just wanted to play the game and that’s a 30 yard sort of kind of bit in the middle of the field where he’s pushing his players right up. People say, "Oh, you know, the ball’s changing a But it is if you play you’re like it was like playing an 11 side game in a five aside court because the game was so compressed and that gives obviously room at the back. That’s a template that was laid down by Manchester City when they were supreme. And I think clubs, top clubs realize quickly they’re going to have to try and replicate that. And it’s about pressing quickly, getting the ball back and playing in the final third rather than labored passing, strategic defensive. I think Man City when they were at their best flew the flag for that. Yeah. You say Man City, I say Barcelona. I will I think the game’s evolved for that tick attack kind of Barcelona style. I think it’s more dynamic and I think the ball goes forward faster now. Yeah. Mhm. Uh the one thing that I did enjoy about it, it always helps uh with these situations. Uh Allison is to be able to play that game, you have to have good players and you have to have good players that have got a license to say listen on you go. I was just about to say it’s not just about having good players, it’s about trusting your players. And I think that’s what was evident last night is two coaches that trust the players, trust the system, and gave them a freedom to play. It wasn’t constrained or strangled by a tactical approach. There wasn’t a tactical setup, but there there was a freedom given to to both sets of players that made for that. A don’t you think the difference? So we’re talking about Barcelona, it was possession and it was changing angles of attack. It was it was about strangling teams with with the ball making them work. The difference is now the teams that are doing well are the ones that go and have white players that go commit. Mhm. Yeah. And it’s it’s a more dynamic kind of fluid forward motion rather than turning the game around, switching the ball. It’s more as well. It’s more um the more you see it now as well is like uh if if you look at it, everybody’s an athlete now. M every player is a is an athlete and every player is also technically good and people say oh they were always yeah but sometimes you used to have big center halves that just had to pass the ball to the pivot in front of them you know one ahead or pass the ball somebody could do and and sometimes you guys that weren’t fit you had your huddles and your latisies you know people sublime footballers that people could run over but you don’t have that everybody’s just like everybody is but what what has changed PSG from that kind of perennial kind of knockout quarterfinals to actually a potential winner. It’s the fact of guys that will go wide and eliminate players. That’s the difference for me. It’s more authentic attacking football rather than just technical players that keep keep the ball actually going for the juggler more. Yeah. Well, I I I was going to buy into that part because quite simply last night you you’ve got a a guy I think he was 37 years of age in a survey scoring and he was in an unusual position because quite simply the manager had said listen we’re go we’re going out here let’s get into the box let’s go it’s a great finish for a center half wasn’t it was fantastic um but overall I think the you know is the winner in that section or is the winner in the other section I think the winner’s in our section I hope the winner’s in our section fix as well. But from a PSG point of view, I’d like PSG on it. It’s ironic that they I’d like PSG on it. Would you? Yeah. It’s ironic that they could win it without three of the world’s greatest players on the side. Isn’t that an interesting point? M uh yeah, you you wonder sometimes when there’s too many big players within one team if you’re maybe trying too hard to keep certain players happy and and and fit them into your system rather than have a system that fits into the strength of the three players now you could say are much more effective than Messi, Mbappe and Neymar. Isn’t that a shocking statement? I’m talking about bit effective but we’ve been there before because in 2002 a really good Real Madrid side beat by a Labor cusen and then in 2003 they added the Galacticos and it just became a circus for Real Madrid. Yep. But it shows again it’s it’s all about it’s all about building a blend. The reason I won PSG is because they made that dramatic pivot and that must have been taken a lot of like coonies to say no see this thing that we built on over the years having their galacticos we’re ripping that up but other thing uh is their coach I would like to I like the coach I’ve interviewed them in a mass I’m not talking about in in a in a a mass setting uh and I like the work ethic there’s a collective work ethic that they’ve got now that they didn’t have before. And again, back to your real point, it’s probably the same that self-indulgent footballer doesn’t fit into that collective. You need now to have allied with the technical brilliance, that desire to go and work for the team. I remember watching PSG and you had Messi wandering about waiting for the ball. Neymar the same and B the same. So when you take that kind of work ethic out of the team, you fail. Yeah. Well, I hope that uh is not the same for every team because obviously there’s not a great work ethic in Ducla Pumperson, the team I’m playing for. It’s quite a leis that can only be for the shirts cuz certainly not for the way we play. There’s there’s water carriers, right? And there’s guys that will go and deliver for you. Yeah. If the cap fits. Absolutely. This is this is great. selling jerseys for one of that time. I could absolutely sit down and write a book on the times I’ve looked at him. I thought, "Bloody hell, man." I mean, honestly, such talent just wasted, squandered. He could write a great book, couldn’t he? I was full-time for 10 years and spent my entire career chasing full fullbacks, right? Shutting down fullbacks, busting a gut, right? I’m entitled now in my later years to go and play without having to run about and all that. Carry on. Thank you. Thank the Lord there’s a reason for it. I was searching my, you know, my head thinking, how can this guy continually throw us under a bus, but nevertheless, absolutely. Thanks for coming. Um, by the way, I usually keep the top 10 to the last of our um our program, but obviously bearing in mind the fact that we watch and I watched Laminal and boy did they stick two or three players on them to try and doubling up on him all the time. Sometimes tribing up. I thought he was outrageous. Yes. I mean, he played one with with his toe just toe over to the far side for Leandowski and I thought to myself, he’s just just magical to watch. But of that top 10, I’m going to give you 10 that I think are the new emerging players. Now, I might be slightly controversial here. While I love him at 17 and and no, I’m not, please, I’m not dismissing all his qualities. I’m enjoying all his qualities, but he’s not a Messi and he’s certainly not a Ronaldo. They were a once in a generation joy to watch and they were battering in stats that were just freakish wheat season in season. The stats are better at 17 in Messi. I was Yeah, I know that. And I and I say to myself, listen, if that if that boy goes on every season to suddenly go by we have scored 40 this season, I’ve scored 50. I’ve won five balon doors and I’ve won numerous Champions leagues. I get your point. You know, then roll on. We we are in for a a brilliant 10 or 15 years. But I’ve got them in there and I’m looking at the new generation and I’m saying to myself, we’ve watched some great football. So, let’s look at the players that excite us now. And I’ve picked 10 that I think, oh yeah, I like I like watching them. They’re really good. Somebody will come up with somebody who’s a better player. Undoubtedly younger and maybe in the South American game because I think sometimes in Europe were very insular. Uh Yamal, Mbappe, Bellingham, Venicius Jr. Rafina Usman Dembele at PSG Musa at Bayern Munich Cole Palmer Saki Saka sorry and Pedri who’s a young Hungarian midfielder that plays for Real Madrid. You know the one? No. No, I’m gone. But I will look it up. Yeah, I would add I would add Cava of PSG to that. Yeah, he’s 24. Um, I would see if I had a couple of PSG players, I think Hakeime, uh, I was watching Don Freeze last night and so that may, but I thought Hakeime was the best fullback in the world. So, I saw how Don Freeze played last night and maybe joint number one. Uh, and I love Fatiniah. Vatin is not a guy that gets you off your seat, but I just think in that midfield role just picking going like I just des you know that water that water carrier but a different level. I love watching the these kind of players. That’s a decent list. Peter, it’s not a bad list. I mean, there’s some people that will come up with others. I just quickly thought to myself, I’ll come up with 10. I’m looking for your Hungarian uh party from the the Real Madrid and for the life of me uh I can’t see is this is this is this somebody that maybe you had thought of from many years ago in a in a video you’ve watched and you don’t realize he’s moved on or retired. I can’t see a Hungarian. Listen, I’m not they haven’t just turned 70. Yeah, absolutely. Throw me under the bus. Yeah, I don’t see a Hungarian in that. Who’s the boy that plays in middle of the park? Is it Hungary he plays with? Yeah, this is Do you know what this reminds me of, by the way? This reminds me of Ruffy. He fires out a line and then it’s the complete polar opposite of where we’re going with it. Um, so I don’t know who the guy he’s on about, but if you That’s our competition this week on the journal. Who’s the Hungarian that party’s talking about that could end up being a German international human? And you win a chocolate cake. Yes, exactly. And a seat in a cake. Yeah. So, by the way, uh any others that what that I’ve missed that you might want to No, I think I’ve got fairly comprehensive list here. By the way, um as far as um Real Madrid concerned, is he got the name Gul? I’ve got the nationality wrong, but that’s just Yeah, just a detail. Just a minor technicality on him. Turkey. Yes. Yeah. Which is really close to really All part of the Ottoman Empire at one time. Same political political structure. The Austrohung the Austrohungarian Empire has collapsed in the wake of the first world war as Gordon well knows that Giller was part of sorry Hungary soon to be Turkey. Yes absolutely. So uh anyway you rate him? I think he’s f fantastic again but just that old head and young young shoulders keeps the ball. Okay. Uh listen um there’s always fallout. We’re going to talk about hearts shortly as well. We’ll talk about some of the awards from the PFA Scotland um old forum fallout. It always usually, you know, Monday and Tuesday’s conspiracy uh and slaughtering everybody. Wednesday, you start to take a more balanced view of some of the questions that will come out of it. And and I think as far as players are concerned, there was a there are so many things that emerged from Celtic and Rangers games. I thought it was fairly flat, but of the questions that emerged, I I listened to the interview with Sirill Desers and he said, "Listen, you know, if somebody said at the start of the whole campaign, I’m going to be here for two seasons. I’m going to score 47 goals." I’d be pretty happy. And I thought it was a good point by the lad. You know, I I I like him in an interview basis. I have no insight to him. I’ have no pals with him. I just think at the end of the day, maybe he doesn’t score enough big goals. Maybe he’s missed too many. that 47 should be 67 goals, but uh he’s certainly divisive and I don’t know maybe is there another manager who comes in and suddenly gets the best out of him. No, no, no. Um he can flatter himself all he wants but again your eyes don’t betray you. You need to be the guy if you’re the guy at Celt Rangers and charged with that responsibility. There’s been moments during Rangers’s seasons, the past two two seasons that he’s been so wasteful that it’s hurting hurting the team to a degree that you can’t go again with them. Enough’s enough. I was at Mil Rangers game two weeks ago and again he missed two absolute sers before he finally scored. Your ratio has to be better than that. Um you could you say enough’s enough, it’s time to sell them. Again, who’s coming out to buy them for the money the Rangers are wanting? You don’t go to games with blindfolds on. You look at what you see. His link up play has improved. He does score goals, but he doesn’t score them. And the chances he’s getting. So ones he misses. It’s too critical for Rangers at this point in time to go with failed projects. And Sirill Desert might complement himself on his strike rate, which is impressive to a degree, but it’s camouflaged with the fact that he’s been part of a massive failure. Yeah. The only drawback, Allison, there’s as said there is Yes. There’s always a buyer for people who scored 47 goals in two seasons, but it’s whether that fee matches the evaluation in Rangers mind, which at the moment I think might be slightly higher than what some people are willing to pay. Yeah, I think there there were a number of clubs in in in January according to to the player himself. Um, I think, yeah, I take your point about about where they are in commanding a fee and what they want for it, but I think I think Gordon’s right. I think if it’s a clean slate and new owners coming in, I just don’t think he’s been clinical enough. And I think the big problem at Rangers has not been selling players at the right time. I think if the stats are good and impressive, you go and you get the highest fee you can probably get and then move on from it. Big problems is wages. Moving on. Yeah. you know because uh the money is on the kind of clubs that will come in for them might will not be want to pay uh in excess of a million pound a year in wages for them. The big problem, the big, the figure that matters is not 47 goals in two years. Figure that matters is one trophy, one domestic trophy in two years. If he’d scored 47 goals and Rangers were on course for a, you know, Rangers had won the league last year and on course were a treble this year, everything would be fine. The fact of the matter is we’d be fighting over them. The fact of the matter is they’ve won one trophy out of six and uh everybody’s looking at the reasons why that is. I have to say though if you’re talking about evaluation he sold himself in Europe I thought he was excellent. He’s an instinctive if you give him time to think about it as a problem. I thought in Europe the way that he led the line Old Trafford as well. Fantastic. So I I compliment them for that. I think they’ll be suitors this summer. I think they will just whether or not their body of work has to be more impressive, right? It’s not I I’ve seen I’ve seen players command a fee who you wonder how the hell they managed to sign them or anybody was willing to buy the person um because you know you couldn’t see anything and then they take a chance. And the best example is that Manchester United have a track record which you know is unparalleled and and certainly nobody can compete with him and buying flops. So there’s always clubs that will buy somebody you think is not top drawer lesser than top drawer. Take the Koga argument. He’s now struggling a game at Ren and you transfer that form that he’s got in Scotland over at the French league. He joined the wrong sometimes the environment sack two games later you know there’s a lot of the circumstantial thing that allow players to click ignite or go the opposite way. Yeah. Um Mhm. 19 goals. I’m not going to get down the road of well is he a 9 million pound player or not? They overpaid for him. Absolutely. But again if we’re arguing over the deser’s point comes into that category. young boy like Desers, you know, there’s there’s room for improvement in lots of areas. I’m not seeing it at the moment. I’ll tell you another thing about it. You can always tell this you whether it’s a or eng, as Gordon mentioned, your eyes don’t deceive you. The general consensus is okay, he scored 19 goals, but he’s not impressed. I know, but the two things he’s got going for him is that this is a manager’s player. So, he’s going to get a lot more leeway leeway than the managers put. This is not quite the record signing. It was a record signing before Engles come in and Brendan, not even a year ago, Brendan Rogers sat down post Scottish Cup final and said, "This is my man. this is the man I want etc etc this is a man I’m going to play regularly off the bench yeah you know he’s touched to manipulate the ball in an area to go and finish on Sunday was fantastic well he scores and I didn’t think he had that in his locker well the thing that’s a set point I’m going to be one the manager second thing is about either is either unlike has got a habit of scoring big goals in big games see if if you actually put his highlight reel up I mean we all know how uh uh deceptive highlight reels could be if you just in memory go back the goal you know scores a winner in the Scottish cup final scores two in the Champions League down at Aston Villa he scored a couple of times Ibrooks uh you know last year as well he was instrumental in coming off the bench and getting Sel over the line I think at Mother once some you know he’s he scored big goals I I think he’s Um, I think it’ll be interesting what happens in the summer because Celtic have to uh for a variety of reasons have to bolster the front three and I’m just wondering where the money will go on that. Will they get another top center forward? They certainly see they desperately need another winger. Yeah, you’re Yeah, I get that point. You you only have to if you don’t listen to what a manager has to say, you certainly have to look at the decisions he makes and this is a man that they’ve paid 9 million pounds for. He’s young, can get better. I’ll give him that. But he’s not playing him. Yeah. I think that tells you everything. I think the fact that even when Kogo went I think everyone anticipated then that he would be he would be the the guy that took the jersey instead obviously moved Maida through the middle. I think that does tell you everything. I think you can’t ignore the valuation. The repertoire that he’s got in his locker isn’t enough. The value that they’ve paid for him clearly, right? Yeah. I think that’s a club failing. I think like when you brought him in on loan last January, the first thing he should be doing is saying here’s the clause, you know, here’s here’s what we’re willing to pay if we want to go ahead and sign him. We put a clause in for Everybody can see he’s one-dimensional. He has to grow in that Celtic jersey, but he has to add more. Yeah. Uh just on that point, and this is the big dilemma for every club when it gets to the summer and how much they’re going to spend, you know, I tend to I tend to dismiss at the moment a lot of the articles written about here comes the impending takeover at Rangers. Um because I think a lot of it is just being fed to people who gleefully write whatever comes out of Ibro. Um but as far as any takeover that does materialize, you know, suddenly you’re looking, you’re saying, will they be able to spend millions upon millions that everybody thinks is going to happen? And the answer is emphatically no, Hugh. Well, there’s there’s certain constraints on it. We know about this legal constraints with uh with UF or with the um financial fair play. I think though if you were sitting in a Celtic boardroom, you’d be looking across the river and you’d be saying to yourself and these are intelligent people, you know, they’ve they’ve dominated Scottish football for all of this century while making tens of millions of pounds. I’d be looking across the road and saying, I think they might be getting their act together. Yeah. Because the people are coming in, I don’t I’m I’m Can you be sure? No. Um, but I’m pretty certain they’ll not be splashing huge cash. Yeah. But they’ll be splashing cash. And they’ll be splashing cash on a strategy, not on, you know, well, the manager likes these three guys give them. No, this is the figures. This is what we can give us. This is the analytics. This is what we need. They’ll be sitting down. There also be an infrastructure put in place that starts to build for a long-term vision, not just an immediate stop gaps of let’s bring in X, Y, and Z. They’ve got a massive problem as Hugh said who’s moving on when they’re getting money they’re never going to get elsewhere. So unless they’re coming in to compensate and clear out forune I think that due diligence is where you know as well as the due diligence and looking at the infrastructure that Allison’s talking about and saying okay we’re going to have to spend this on the stadium. We’re going to have to try and take out some of the players that are not good enough. Then we’re going to have to recruit. Obviously got to get got to get the right manager as well. and then understand what it’s going to take to try and flip this quickly to get the rewards of a maybe a Champions League group stage. Um so all of that is in the equation um that they’re going to have to assess as well as we say that whether it’s Rangers or Celtic you can’t spend willy-nilly because of what you mentioned which is financial fair play. Gra has quoted a figure of 50 million pounds for Rangers injection to compete and that’s purely on the budget for players. It’s fantasy island. There’s absolutely no way that they’re going to get anywhere close to that kind of injection for recruitment. Everybody knows that. But Rangers fans should maybe temper the fact that, as you say, structures and building long term. Yeah. Is where the money should be invested because there’s not enough money to change things quickly, Rangers. And with that, the flip side for Celtic is, is this potentially his final year where Brendan Rogers turns around and said, "Listen, I need the four or five players that I was talking about for that final push to where my remit on this contract um is fulfilled, which is give me three or four or five players of genuine quality so that we could go beyond a Bayern Munich or is that pie in the sky?" I think it’d be very very difficult um given you know to I mean remember what was it 26 million they spent you know I know they got a lot of money in but you know they bought back uh uh Yotter for eight they bought trusty for six they bought IDA for nine Engles for 11. Yeah. How difficult will it be to sell that point you’re making you on the basis that probably in the summer if they don’t announce they’ve got 100 million in the bank I’ll be gomacked. Yeah, I know. But I I just think like that strategically I think will they go again like that? I I very much doubt it. Yeah. And I think smaller amounts. Yeah, I think so. And I also think that is it’ll be Brendan Rogers last year because I think he’ll look at he will I think as well is there’s a tenure for managers at Celtic Avengers and I think it’s a very difficult job. I know we throw Brendan Rogers wife into the mix because she apparently loves living in Glasgow. So that is a you know that is you know always you know somebody said at the uh the PFA the other day there happy wife happy life you know if you if your family’s happy in a place etc etc but I think another year would be would probably be enough. Do you not think his comments last week were quite telling? The fact that he he didn’t entertain any notion that he was anything other than completely focused. But for Brendon Rogers, lock yourself in for one more year and you’ve done your time. Yeah. And then you can walk away and Yeah. Without without drama. People say, "Well, where will we go? Where we go? There’ll be a job in the legal forum and there’s a job in Saudi forum." Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Um Brandon, if you’re listening, there’s a strategy. This is what you have to do. Um but uh just one little downside to it all and there always there’s always a downside to uh a Celtic Rangers game a Ranger Celtic game and that is basically the conduct of people that you never really want to spend any time with in your life even if you walked down the middle of Banan Street you would be walking in a different world from what I call are people who have no morals no values no principles um and basically um will do anything uh to tarnish the name of a club because of their own conduct, because of the way they conduct their life, whether it be through sectarianism, bigotry, you name it. Um I think Rangers let themselves down with um the banner thing. I think they should have had a a tighter grip on the banner because there’s a group of fans who just basically um will put anything up that you know is poor taste. And by the way, it’s poor taste. And I’m watching and and right across a lot of social media where they’re they’re now selling t-shirts and mugs with the with the banner on it to appeal to a percentage of fans who like that sort of thing. Yeah. that I think the the the fallout for me and the really most interesting part of the fallout me because usually it’s all tedious you know I for me the bar is tedious but uh uh throwing bottles on the parts tedious guys uh celebrating the death of of fans in a tragic accident is just tedious I was about to get to that it’s just awful stuff and it happens and there’s not that much we can say about it because we just just see you know what’s happening I think the really interesting thing polit ically for me was Rangers putting out a statement about the banner and the way they put the statement on out and this follows with a very strong statement about Rangers club you football clubs for everybody if you don’t fancy it on your bike now that’s gained a lot of traction and I know the fans board were talking about that last night where and I’ll be interested to look at the minutes from that mean because they talked about the last we’ve had a robust discussion about this my take on this and I I haven’t got it for anybody else, but my instinctive take on this is that this new board is coming in and Patrick Stewart of course has has released a statement, but I think it would be naive to suggest he’s not had a word with the potential owners over this or they’ve not had a word with us. And I think this might be the biggest cultural sea change. I think this might be the story that the board are coming in and just saying we are not putting up with this. It’s a really heavy-handed ambiguous heavy state. I’ve never seen a ranger statement like that before. Uh and I’m just this board and it wouldn’t be a surprise cuz you remember Fenway group at Liverpool. Remember the the um the Evra controversy with uh Suarez. Yes. Kenny and his players came out and warm up with a weback ever whatever it was. And the very next day Fenway said, "No, we don’t. No, we don’t, Kenny." Yeah. No, we don’t. players. If you ever wear anything like that again, it’s disciplinary. We don’t support that. I’ll tell you, I share I I share your view on the the group and where they might be um strong willed um resolute on the way they want to conduct themselves. I think it would take a a heck of a long time to cull, you know, a a group of people who think all that is acceptable. I think I think if you start cutting them out, if you start cutting that bad apple out of a support, then suddenly you say to yourself, wait a minute, you know, that’s a large chunk of people who are buying merchandise, who are coming to games, and they’ll say, "This is our tradition. We want to be singing your songs. We want to be doing things that annoy the life out of our opposition." Yeah. And I think you’re going to have that resistance. I thought the interesting thing yesterday after all the halaloo about the banner the statement the police inquiry and then of course there are no charges brought was a reaction then people saying well there you go that’s a lesson for you Patrick Stewart that was the prevailing feeling amongst the ranger support that they weren’t happy about the statement and they weren’t happy at the inherent criticism that came in the back of it towards that element of the support but for me I think over the last month you’ve had two very very strong statements that have been utterly condem condemning that kind of mentality, that kind of core belief. But they’ve not just condemned it. What they’ve said is we don’t want to be a club for you. This is not and it is it. Listen, you’re going to have to try and steer a ship that stood for certain values and and certain cultural aspects for over a century. It’s not an easy fix, but this is the very first time you’ve had a club come in and you’ve had the board come in and say, "We’re not standing for it. We’re disassociating ourselves. We wish to move away. We do not want this club to be representatives of the values that you’re projecting." But that cultural change is a generational one. There’s an underbelly at a lot of football clubs, certainly Rangers to a certain degree. and it typify a kind of they trade on certain unacceptable values and that’s a generational thing and that’s not going to shift quickly and we’re kidding ourselves what you think it’s a minority cuz it’s not we all listen to the songs that were sung at the weekend not acceptable but are acceptable because they’re obviously still getting but what’s interesting is it’s the first time you have the club come out and say we don’t understand we don’t want it but there is a trading value you’re actually coming out and saying no Right. When can you ever recall any of that? I can’t in my It’s an unspoken word though about the values of certain Rangers fans. And it’s a very controversial kind of hot topic. I don’t know if I’m prepared to get into it to that kind of depth. But it is cultural generational and it is an underbelly and to shift that underbelly is going to take a generation to do that. I think your point of view and whether people might say there’s an innocence to this or there’s like your point of view would be we do not want to change the fans. We just don’t want them in the ground. If you are like that we are not wanting to change your opinions. We don’t want to change what you do in your private life. What we do want is we don’t want you. They’ve said this. Don’t want you. But you bigotry drives an economic aspect of the old firm rivalry and it’s sold on that. a degree and to deny that is not to confront it truthfully. Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, listen, I understand where you’re coming from with statements, but with all due respect, you know, whether it’s governments, whether it’s dealing with sport, whether it’s football, whether it’s integrity, I’ve heard lots of really strong statements before in my life. I’ve not no I thought, you know what? I thought it was kind of reminiscent of the Fergus man thing. the boys and he got a lot of flack and a lot of it reminiscent of a new broom coming in and saying, "Wait a minute. We we’re part of a much wider commercial world. We don’t want to be tainted by any associations that impact us negatively as a business." No, nobody’s debating the integrity of the statement. What Gordon’s pointed out, which I believe is difficult, is they’re trying to cure the ills of a society in this this country, which is acceptable to for that type of behavior. But I don’t think they’re trying to cure the trying to say is you can have that, but not here. Not in here. Yeah, I agree. No, I I I reputational damage is real, right? Reputational damage is real. if the investment is sizable, they’re taking a big gamble because I don’t think that you can address the classroom and say this is how we have to behave if you want to be here and all that, it just doesn’t work at a club like Glasggo Rangers. Well, I I think if you I think if you’ve played second fiddle to Celtic for the best part of a quarter of a century and somebody’s coming in and saying, "Hang on a minute. We’re bringing in money, investment, we can change the landscape of what happens on the pitch, which is ultimately the most important thing that you want to see. Then there’s a certain way that you have to go. You have to come with us or you have to leave. Yeah. Yeah. I listen, I embrace the integrity of the statement. I think the jury’s out and do we see whether the actual practical part of this to cut out that rotten apple and how much of that rotten apple needs to be cut out. And and on the other side, I’m not going to miss this, to see someone mock the death of 66 fans. I think he’s lost his job as well, is just I mean it just everything you need to know about certain individuals. That that whole picture of that gentleman mocking the death of 66 Rangers fans, it just it just fills you. The lowest form of the lowest common denominator is allowed access to a football ground as you saw at the Aberine submarine game at the weekend. Yes. A disgusting repulsive incident with a handicap fan. So you’re going to get absolutely scourgious society doing these things. Yeah. Rangers don’t want to be tainted with their element of every football club has an element of it. But the problem they have to address if they’re the new broom, do they banish or do they have to tolerate? They have to make a big decision in this. I think it will become a culture of condemnation. Every time you have something that raises its head, it will be we do not want to be this to be part of our club. We don’t want it. We’re asking you to leave it. The Rangers one at the weekend was a collective which we all addressing at the moment. uh the individual who come in with the 66U beggars belief where where in your life can you be brought up to think that’s acceptable it’s it’s but fool never feels to astonish you for that I mean uh you uh you can you have chance now of about people dying and you have it never I mean no matter how low it goes there’s always seems another and you see it and it’s not just a Glasgow problem although you It was most obvious in Glasgow, but I mean Manchester United and Liverpool trade trade awful stuff. It’s like I think in many ways it’s like a wee boy thing. It’s like how and it is a masculine thing about how bad can I be? How you know how low can I go? How low can I go and show how, you know, how hardcore I am in this, you know, about people dying in stairways, about uh uh people dying inside football grounds, football players dying in crashes, about football players dying of natural causes. Uh and it’s this kind of thing. It’s a it’s a very it’s a very very weird thing. And it’s almost like a showing off ego thing. This is how hard I am. I can go I can gravity go really low and it uh uh the only way out of that is is quite simple on football grounds now as well with CCTV is identifying B. So that gives back to the that’s the question. What do you do? You tolerate put out statements or you banish. You got to banish because the only way to to actually have a real ground shift and set in place the journey towards a culture shift is to it’s tell them they’re not wanted and actually act on it. I actually thought if you go back and you look at that boys against bigotry thing from Fergus man, I think it did change elements within the Celtic support. Now it’s never eradicated. If you go to an away game, it’s a very different experience and a very different song sheet from what you would get at Celtic Park. But I think at Celtic Park, it definitely became much more sanitized than what it ever had been before. There was a shift there. There and there was conversations about it. There were conversations about it. Just before we talk about Hugh’s cake, um, which is sitting there respendant to celebrate the 70th um, hearts forefront, Tony Bloom has looked to possibly just 10 million pound investment. Although if you read Barry Anderson, he said it’s 9.86 million. Well done. Well done, Barry, for being so specific on these things. 14 is quite a lot of money. Yeah, absolutely. It’s a center and a half. Um, but um, the good thing about Barry is he’s in there. He he he’s a journalist who will be at the heart of it if you’ll excuse the pun. Um the minority shareholding would be 29%. Uh 8,000 Foundation of Hearts members will now vote or nay on May or by May 26th. So he’s got uh an involvement in Brighton and Union San Jua. Um and now he’s serious about hearts. So sorry Al, I keep kicking you. Um but metaphorically as much as anything else. Yes, absolutely. Uh if this is a podcast, people are wondering what is happening in that studio. Um but he’s serious about it. He’s putting his money where his mouth is. And this looks as if it could be something good for hearts. Is it good for hearts? And is there a trend in Scottish football that could be positive? Well, it is a trend. I mean, Scottish football is obviously attracting interest. And it’s an attracting interest because particularly American but overseas buyers are seeing it as undervalued particularly undervalued in the sense that if there is a shakeup in Europe you know the Scottish brands will go I mean if there’s a shakeup in Europe for example for a European league can you imagine how much more uh attractive Scottish clubs from Celtic Rangers and the hearts would be so there’s a slight gamble in that but they also think that genuinely under undervalued anyway I mean because if you say about hearts If you buy Brighton, for example, and and you’re paying an awful lot of money for that, you probably say to yourself things like European football isn’t a guaranteed. But if you buy hearts, you can actually say to yourself, and I know this season they’re not, but you could say to yourself like European will go, if you buy hearts, you say we have a season ticket book, which is basically sell out and we have guaranteed European football every year or should have guaranteed football. So, it’s an already an attractive buy. I think the problem is uh and I think it’ll be interesting is is that some heart supporters uh whom I know are not sold in this at all. Wow. Uh they are within the members because the foundation of hearts uh quotes that I’ve read is very supportive very supportive. They’re sort of influential voices of businessmen and uh that I know and I talked to her last night about this because I was kind of surprised that the I’d heard there was some dissent. So uh this is welcome to my life at 17 years old making check calls and hearts at half 6. But anyway uh uh I talked to them and they they genuine concerns because they wanted to remain a fanowned club and but you will under this circuit but they wanted to be increased as a fanowned club. You know they they sees a process of being completely fanowned. They’ve got some suspicions as everybody has of people coming in. So, it’s I think it’ll pass because I think most people look at this and say, "Oh my goodness, we’re getting 9.86 million and we’re getting a guy who knows what the the football is about, who’s got obvious interest in other clubs, I think I’ll go through, but there are the certain voices." The only thing about that um and I know it’s I know you’re usually controversial when you come on the show, partly um but from my point of view, I don’t buy into this. I think there’s a ceiling point with, you know, a high percentage of fanown owned clubs. That’s true. You know, because James Anderson and Anne Budge and a number of wealthy people have all had to dip their hand in their pocket where fans would have been going, "Oh, wait a minute. You’re asking us. We’re already paying your subscription per month, but we want good players in the park, but we want to beat Hibs. Do you know what I mean? I think there’s a ceiling point for it." Well, ceiling point seems to be the comment that’s made about hearts and hips consistently. How many times have you interviewed a manager and asked the question when do you go through this that ceiling? If you’re speculating across the Scottish game, Harts are a prime club. The stadium’s fantastic. They’re going to get the hotel there. It’s in the capital. It’s got real proper football big time club potential. Do you The only way it through the ceiling is financial. So, Hearts fans need to just accept it. Will this make enough of an impact? It could. But how many times Alison have you interviewed hearts and hips players? Hugh and the question about the glass ceiling and separating the old firm always was one that causes them to shriek if hearts want to take that extra step and it is the club I think that Hibs as well clearly they’ve got the money coming as well but hearts are a prime football club to be that project club to try and do that. Yeah. And it will require money that the fans can’t acrue. It needs to come in from an independent body and I think it’s a win-win. Yeah. And we talked about the 49ers and Rangers uh the Black Knights Hernian Tony Bloom suddenly at hearts. Could this be a trend that suddenly maybe stimulates our game outside money and a different approach and a different viewpoint to marketing to just to trying to take a club to a level that they haven’t reached before. I think it’s just an expo a new unexplored avenue. I think it you see the success that they’ve had with it with the stats based background and the impact that it can have when it comes to your recruitment when it comes to bringing in players that fit the mold of of how the I was going to say it’s not even how the manager wants to play it will be how the club wishes to play the identity of the club and which players fit into that system I think it’s interesting I think I certainly think it’s a it’s something that clubs would do well I think to explore just as a footnote They’re still looking for a manager, you know, Ryan Stevens and a number of people are saying, you know, Derek McKinnus, go and give him the job. And I look and I say to myself, how can a man that wins manager of the this the year three times and plays attractive football with Fauler, albeit Falker, and albeit it was nervy at the end, but I wonder why he’s not really at the forefront. And John McGlin um is 63 and doesn’t have a a tan and a side parting. No, no. I I hear one of the the the one of the um talking about somebody that doesn’t have a t or a site. That’s why I thought you were better placed than most. I The thing that baffles me a wee bit about hearts is I know they’re going to talk to Well, I’ve heard they’re going to actually talk to him. How seriously they’re going to talk to him, I don’t know, but I heard that they’re going to talk to him by the end of the week. The thing about hearts is that if you have a strategy and and at the beginning of the season when when Steve went they had to get Steve Naymith went they had to get a manager and they said this is our strategy. We’re going this is our strategy for hiring a manager. Then 6 months later they’re saying well this isn’t our strategy for hiring a manager anymore. That’s alarm bells going to my head because Derek McKinnus, Steven Robinson and John McGlin were all there Mhm. you know 6 months ago. Yes. And there wasn’t a peep about them. So why is there a peep about them now? And as a as a if I was a strategic think thinker in the boardroom, if I was for instance a James Anderson, I would say wait a minute here. You know what is the strategy? Because if the strategy is that why didn’t we do it 6 months ago? Well well sometimes and football is a a strange old game where sometimes the blind can lead the blind. You walk into a room with somebody who said, "Listen, I have these tablets of stone and that this is the light, the way, and the truth, and they all jump in and go, well, we’re going to embrace it." Kneel and head 100% the problem at hearts has just put you up to actually said, "Forget John can get through and meet them. M this computer is going to give you the next manager because you’ve got Graeme Jones and Andrew McKinley who are not only bought into it. They’re contained within that whole project. Now Graeme Jones is a sport scientist. Not to my knowledge a great football mind or a contact based guy more than squash. Andrew McKinley’s just come in for the golf world. The great well in the world at hearts lacks professional football acumen. I believe in the boardroom and that’s a concern. I think I think the computer’s going to give you another another manager because they have they’re hootling and sinkered with it. Yeah. Um listen um we’ve almost reached the end of the program. Great as ever. Um forthright in our opinions. Um but I’ve got to say little cake there, 70 years of age. That’s why we go like that. You might uh you might not know this uh Allison, but uh you know with PLZ soccer over the years, right at the very start, I realized I needed a sane voice in the room um along alongside Ry and and and we got the legend. The problem I had even by bringing on the legend and that’s you know that experience of a 70-year-old is in the first couple of years even a program like the journals would not have survived without him taking it down the road and giving us a Bobby Murdoch story. Um and then eventually I had to intervene and say listen Hugh we’re talking about fans and their conduct inside a stadium. What the hell has that got to do with Bobby Murdoch? So, so it’s been a joy over the years, but 70 Hugh, magnificent. And by the way, I know you didn’t get into the football journalism aspect of it until maybe the last decade, but prior to that, huge football fan. You’ve seen some right good players and some right good games. Eight different decades I’ve watched football in. Eight different decades. Oh, from the 1950s uh right through to the what do we call this the 2020s? Yeah. Would Bobby Murdock have survived in today’s game? I yeah good players would always always be good players I think uh I think one of the great things about it is like there’s a lot of things when I was growing up and then I was in the Herald and it was like the very much the middle class player that that football was kind of looked down upon you know at the Herald. Yeah, like I was I was in I was in what they call the back bench. So I was the chief sub editor. So you you talked about you talked about uh education policies, economic stuff and and if you mentioned the word football I was okay. But last night, last night for the for the millionth time last night, I was sitting on my own in my cup of tea watching a game of football and just my god, I love Do you know can I can I tell a we story about you? Yes. Before we came on air, he sat there and he gave a narration to the young staff that are in here and you spoke about life lessons, right? And it was really touching to hear you impart your knowledge and what he actually said was quite poignant. Right. But do you know what you are proof? You don’t have to be cynical or be infected by the cynical elements of football. You just enjoy it. Yeah. This uh reminds me of that. It was a lovely I won’t give you a lift. Thank you. It was it was a it was a lovely it was a lovely line here. But it reminded me of the movie that Robert Dairo was in when he was infected and he didn’t have the same optimistic outlook and that was what was that one where he played Lucifer. It’s a such a good movie. Was it? No. Angel Heart with what’s Mickey. Um, and I I was listening to you and I thought, my god, there’s somebody in the dark side who actually is looking thinking it’s too late for me, but you are an array of light. You’d be amazed what I would do if I left home. Absolutely. Uh, happy birthday to you, Hugh. I know it’s it’s passed and you spent it with the most important people in life, which is your family. Um, but uh, we certainly view you as our family here at PLZ Soccer and it’s been a joy having you about 70 years of age, Ally. I I hope I’m here. I hope you’re studying talking to you. It’s not this new slick presenter who said to you, "Well, Ally, you’re 70 now. It would be great. You can reflect on it." I hope I’m not working at 70. I hope I’ I hope I’ve I’m sitting in a beach somewhere. Well, there’s a lot of people who have obviously expressed that wish now for you on our social media, but that’s that’s the nature of life nowadays. Listen, it’s been a joy. I hope we’re going to get a slice of the cake because obviously he likes to slice it up with the people that mean most to him. Um, and he also gives it to people that he thinks are beyond redemption, which gives me a nice chance to thank Gordon Parts for coming into the studio alongside Hugh McDonald and of course Allison McConnell. Don’t forget we’ve got PLZ premium uh if you want additional content. There’s lots of really good stuff coming up on it. You get discounts on our merchandise. You’ll also get a chance to go to our events. We’ve got an evening with Gordon Straken and Martin O’Neal coming up. If you want to check out our YouTube channel, you can get yourself some tickets and get along to that which should be brilliant. Kluff, Ferguson, Arberine, Nottingham Forest, and Celtic. What a night that’s going to be. Anyway, from all of us here in the journals, uh thank you to everyone who listens on the podcast. We really do appreciate your support and across all our social media. Thanks for listening and watching.
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What action is being taken against Rangers for a glass bottle being thrown at a Celtic player ?
Big difference between songs and banners (however distasteful one might find them) and missiles like bottles, coins etc being flung at players – Engels nearly had a coin in the eye last time at Ibrox, bottles this time. It's not 'tedious', it's dangerous.
What action is being taken about the vile bile songbook sang towards the Protestant members of society at Celtic park on a weekly basis by 60k people. See nothing of the culture shift Alison speaks about.
Also, what action was taken against Celtic for the litter of bottles and cans thrown At Rangers players after the third goal at parkhead last month? Don’t think it was even mentioned; or Celtic even acknowledge it. Despite being clear video videos of it (see YouTube). Weird that.
The best songbook was rangers at ibrox after Leipzig. 10 mins straight after the final whistle (again check on YouTube) was 10 mins of songs about the team; club and players. Everyone celebrating together with a pour out of emotion. Absolutely outstanding. No cultural songs, and no bile. Yes there’s still 1/2 songs that rears their head at ibrox every so often – usually for one particular fixture – but it’s nowhere near as frequent as folk in the media will have u believe. Rangers songbook – and tbf to the UB – has much more songs about the players than most other clubs. They develop new ones regularly too. And these is mostly what you hear at ibrox these days.
I am not a rangers supporter. The sale to the Americans will finish rangers tradition. The Americans don’t care about tradition when they buy a football club. Just ask Manchester United. When they first bought Aston Villa they asset striped the club. They will probably improve Ibrox because that is real estate. I can’t see them spending many millions to make Rangers a top European club. It would had been better if the buyers where Rangers fans who made their money in America. The tradition would have been maintained.
If the takeover goes ahead at Ibrox you can be guaranteed the rancid sectarian set up there will be removed as any new owners won't put up with the culture that exists there which will cause many diehard supporters to reject it and who will be incensed by it.
"Wheres the burds" has seen better days…
Sevco still shit 🍀😂😂😂
55 minutes of pish!
I love my Celtic football team . I left Scotland in 1972 came to Australia and followed an Aussie rules team this game is very passionate without the bigotry ,families often support different teams whilst they are playing against each other I have been and seen it I’m happy to be far away from the mindset of religious bigotry in Scotland
Ayr were Brilliant 😉
( hopes the folk who dislike Rangers )
Ain't happening.
No one likes us we dont care.
Sorry to disappoint you ( guys )
Personally I thought the Huns banner was quite good. Full stand Tifo. Anyone from us (Celtic ) offended need to get a fucking grip
My god, does someone not make sure everyone is ready to shoot the show. But Hugh sits there with a big bit of food on his mouth. 🤦🏻
They need a culture change the dirty rats
Parksy is one of the best on this. Does not give a hoot.
A balanced panel as always 😂. Peter asks Gordon about the Celtic fan mocking the 66 dead. His answer includes Aberdeen, St Mirren and Rangers but not Celtic.
You are miles off with the banner. An iconic ex manager and a Star Wars reference on May the 4th. You and the other media bum the Old Firm up as being one of the worlds greatest derbies, when it is actually pretty tame compared to the big South American ones.
The bottle thrower should be banned for life. The no alcohol at football debate puzzles me. The amount of Buckfast that gets into Ibrox and away games is astounding.
The comments here are so emblematic of everything bad in Scottish football. The most important and impactful content of this podcast was the discussion around hearts and bloom, but all anyone is commenting on is nonsense about banners and fan conduct. Bloom could buy rangers or Celtic with pocket change, and easily make money doing it, but he’s supporting Hearts, there is a reason, he detests fan violence and sectarian divisions, just like everyone else outside Scotland. The old firm model will not only be disrupted with a third or fourth club consistently competing, it will be destroyed.
Happy birthday Hugh 💚
Peter omartin 4/5 players to get past Bayern Munich 😂😂😂😂 who did use play in champions league
Allison McConnell..Ronny ET times daughter
congratulations to Hugh on turning 70, love listening to him