Laurence

If we are nit picking Motherwell was our bogey team singular - was .

Came up on google search I remember my first primary school teacher used to read it, I remember gettind a very disaproving look from her when I told her my mum and Dad read the Daily Herald.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2394234/Marion-Bartoli-retires-tennis.html

Tom Cleverley is useless

A much more competitive match than could be expected STV got on my wick a bit, never could stand Gary Brazil I switched to channel 973 ( ITV) and found more balanced coverage Terry gave a good summery of the game, I don't think he was too impressed with the defending for both sides. .

The Line up no Michael Carrick England (4-3-3): Hart; Walker, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines; Gerrard, Cleverley, Wilshere; Walcott, Rooney, Welbeck. Subs: Foster, Ruddy, Johnson, Cole, Jones, Smalling, Milner, Lampard, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Zaha, Defoe, Lambert. Scotland (4-2-3-1): McGregor; Hutton, Hanley, Martin, Whittaker; Brown, Morrison; Snodgrass, Maloney, Forrest; Miller. Subs: Gilks, Marshall, Greer, Hammell, Mulgrew, Webster, Adam, Bannan, Boyd, Bridcutt, Burke, Conway, Dorrans, Mackay-Steven, McArthur, Griffiths, Naismith, Rhodes. Hopefully Snodgrass will stay on the field , he is a class act.

Can't answer that. I still say it's a matter for the magistrate not football

Well said Charles, By the way when you wake up Rip, you might find one of your jobs has disappeared I believe the BBC's mandate, is with the UK,

I never heard any Scots wanting to leave the Union when everything was being paid for by exports from Lancashire. Half the Unions wealth were exports that went through Liverpool. . There is still more Industrial wealth adjacent the East Lancashire Road than in the whole of Scotland Last time I travelled from Glasgow to Carlisle in an hour I counted 200 HGV pouring over the border, sucking in imports They will all have to be paid for in Euros as the Bank of England will not support the Scottish pound Millions of Scots fought against Germany in two world wars , Scotland could well be taking their orders from them, just like the Irish who formerly left the Union

A Troll was a copy of an Ent manufactured by the Dark Lord http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Ents

I was challenged on the violence issue, a subject I know little about So my research came up with this I still think it is a wider aspect of life than football - Maybe education at school level is the best we can hope for. http://thosewhowillnotbedrowned.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/just-another-saturday-sunday-tuesday-wednesday-night-in-glasgow/

Again to show my unpopularity I don't agree with loan players, unless it's an emergency goalkeeper sanctioned by the league or SFA or whatever acronym they are using these days to run Scottish football. The only reason to loan players is to get an advantage over other clubs who pay for their players. The number of loan players is growing with big clubs with high wages sending high profile earners all over Europe. Joey Barton was a prime example last year. Basically if you cant afford em, don't sign em

Troll don't think so I am an Ent if anything I have been asked to comment on violence in Glasgow I refused because I know nothing about it, just like if I was asked about violence in the Milan derby, or the Istanbul conflicts which I am told is worse.? Do we abandon football games , because the police struggle to do their jobs.

They always say Scotland play for the shirt. Can't really say that about England I think it will be a scrappy match. Rooney is injured, Lambert is untried Rhodes can steal the winner and I will kick myself for not investing £20 Stachan knows the England game more than anybody, so can pull a rabbit out of the hat I am typing this in a BT hotspot with a dongle plugged into my laptop Never done that before. Think I .pint and go home. Or maybe two?

Is Gareth Bale worth £85,000,000 ?

The Squad http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12016/8860748/rickie-lambert-and-wayne-rooney-in-england-squad-for-friendly-against-Scotland Put £20 on Scotland win £130

What about all the people (particularly women) who haven't been battered due to having no Old Firm matches, which are renowned for huge spikes in violence? Is this question Rhetorical ? Do you really expect me to answer it, Or are you just showing your own views ? How am I supposed to know about violence to women, children or anybody else. I suggest you contact Glasgow home for battered wives or the Police.

You are right with your first sentence Laurence If you go through life , whether it be at work, or with the girls, or anything else worrying about being popular, what are you? I have always said, " be your own man, think for yourself, and believe in yourself". If you get ridiculed for your beliefs then tough. You are entitled to have your beliefs. Anyone who watches Westerns knows lynch mob mentality never works. I am no Rangers fan by any stretch, I was brought up in highly Catholic Lancashire by Irish nuns, I sang " Hail Glorious St. Patrick ", in assembly at school every morning. I was taught to detest protestants above all else. I just feel this Rangers business, has gone on long enough. It is not good for football in Scotland, It is not helping the top division, It is not helping Glasgow. I can't see how it is helping anybody. I think the sooner we get back to the status quo , the sooner Scotland can get a national team to be proud of. I can see that young men glory in a fallen giant, we all had a good laugh, but how long before we realise we have created a false set up. As Douglas Bader, told the Germans " Rules were made for fools, and the guidance of wise men ". Maybe the men are not wise, or they implemented the rules without guidance. I am not the oracle, I just say it as I see it.

I still have memories of the boy Little ripping us apart at home, on TV as well I would expect him to do well this season.

I think there is already 3 teams in the Premier Div in Glasgow if you count Paisey I don't get your point I am saying we need Rangers back. Plain and simple. A Great City needs top teams.

I wonder what sort of money they are on ?

Rangers 01 Gallacher 02 Christopher Hegarty 03 Faure 05 Wallace 06 McCulloch 04 Robbie Crawford 08 Black 09 Templeton 10 MacLeod 11 Andrew Mitchell 07 Little It is awful for a Rangers team to look so shabby. Would you play any of them at ICT ? Not more than 3 I predict

Queen of the South must be favourites for an upset

Lost all his hair watching Rangers last year I presume

Team loved by the locals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Su3Oesdrw