\u201cI\u2019m very supportive of the players and was after Cluj and Dunfermline. We\u2019ve lost one game \u2013 I didn\u2019t believe we deserved to and that\u2019s the harsh realities of the game.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re fine. We\u2019re absolutely fine. It\u2019s like everyone out there is head down. We\u2019re not. We\u2019re bullish and looking forward to the games.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere has to be a sense of perspective. I can\u2019t control that, but there has been a little bit of hysteria at times. That is the environment you\u2019re in in Glasgow sometimes.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve lost one game and scored three goals in it, so it\u2019s not all doom and gloom.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe have to be bullish about things and look forward. It\u2019s a big disappointment to be out of the Champions League, but the Europa League is a very good competition that, hopefully, we can prosper in.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important we get through. It gives us a gravitas, opens the season up and gives us European football to look forward to towards Christmas, so it\u2019s an important couple of games.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n All of this, however, was spoken calmly, almost as though he was a teacher reading a poem to some disinterested kids. One might almost say he was just going through the motions…<\/p>\n Thats fine, as long as the passion that makes him the man he is rears its head in the dressing room before the game.<\/p>\n If it doesn’t we could be in for a long night.<\/p>\n Followed by a very long season.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, and this could be relevant…<\/p>\n Kilmarnock Football Club is pleased to confirm the arrival of Niko Hamalainen on a season-long loan from Queens Park Rangers, subject to international clearance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Niko was raised in the United States but has played international football for Finland, qualifying through his father.<\/em><\/p>\n The 22-year-old has been at Loftus Road since 2014 and earlier this year, he enjoyed a loan spell with Major League Soccer outfit Los Angeles FC.<\/em><\/p>\n Primarily a left back<\/strong>, Niko can also play at centre back as well as midfield and will wear the number 14 jersey this season.<\/em><\/p>\n Greg Taylor it is, then… and then probably Scott McKenna.<\/p>\n Forster, Matthews, McKenna Ajer Taylor Brown Christie Forrest Morgan Johnston Griffiths…we lose tonight and that’ll be the first team before you know it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anyhoo, let’s lighten the mood…<\/p>\n A TOP cop sang bigot chant Billy Boys as he quizzed a Catholic witness in a Rangers fraud probe, it is claimed.<\/em><\/p>\n Detective Chief Inspector Jim Robertson was accused at Edinburgh\u2019s Court of Session today of \u201cengaging in sectarian abuse\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The allegations against Det Ch Insp Robertson emerged as ex-Ibrox administrator David Grier sues Police Scotland for \u00a32million.<\/em><\/p>\n The court heard claims that the top cop sang the sectarian chant as he quizzed a boss at Mr Grier\u2019s firm Duff and Phelps.<\/em><\/p>\n No one should be surprised. Though I thought making the prisoner accompany him on the flute was a bit over the top.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The campaign to bring Ryan Kent to “rangers ” continued unabated. The policy of harping on about it in a compliant media mirrors the tactic used to unsettle players at Scottish clubs who are holding the Ibrox club to ransom, whilst denying the player his dream move.<\/p>\n Kent is apparently in a huff because he’s got no chance of playing first team football at Liverpool, and “rangers ” can’t afford him, although it does appear to be the players destination of choice. There’s talk of a further loan, which Liverpool have blocked, and even a story that says “rangers ” will pay the loan fee next year, in instalments..<\/p>\n Former Rangers midfielder Derek Ferguson reckons Rangers are equal to Celtic from middle to final third and Kent could be the final piece of the jigsaw.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n They face Legia Warsaw tonight, a team who were actually punished for fielding an ineligible player. First Rangers got away with it for years…<\/p>\n Meanwhile, their support, not the brightest, led by Mark Dingwall, also not the brightest , have jumoed on the Tangled Up In Blue page on amazon….leaving reviews on a book they haven;t read, or technically, had read to them.<\/p>\n They hate us more than they love their own club\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n Another Celtic fan writes a book about Rangers.<\/em><\/p>\n Love this tweet taking the piss out of the author.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n *Narrator’s voice*<\/p>\n “Not out today – The Paul McStay autobiography because Sellik fans would rather read, write and pay to publish books about Rangers to feed their desperate need to read about a club they still insist is dead but are shitting themselves about winning the league<\/em>” https:\/\/<\/span>twitter.com\/StephenODauthor\/status\/1163483693920530432\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n That would be a book that explains why they are dead, something they would probably find interesting as it might help them avoid a second round of howling about injustice etc..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Note Dingwall carefully avoids any criticism…thats left to his lackeys…like these few..<\/p>\n More paranoid nonsense from a paranoid support,,,they will always be in our shadow\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n See Spiers and English are tagged – quelle surprise!. Doubtless they\u2019ll be devouring it right now, flaccid members in hand. That these creeps are employed by a licence payer funded organisation bheggars belief.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The Rangers were here before the rattlers. It was those bastards that brought religion to the table.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The book helpfully reminds them about the time they completely forgot when they were formed..<\/p>\n No doubt more lies and half-truths from a likely bhigotted fan, to whom the truth is a total stranger.<\/em><\/p>\n Isn\u2019t there a rather bigger story brewing at your own club Stephen? But then you know your fellow liars won\u2019t want to read about that.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n And of course, there are more comments along those lines. And a request to leave one star reviews and comments.<\/p>\n As ever, they aren’t quite clever enough to work out that this kind of publicity actually helps to sell books, which will further infuriate them.<\/p>\n Yesterday, we had this…<\/p>\nTop cop who led Rangers fraud probe \u2018sang sectarian Billy Boys chant as he quizzed Catholic Duff and Phelps boss\u2019<\/h1>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n
The Ryan Kent effect and how Rangers transfer would give Ibrox side best chance of stopping Celtic<\/h1>\n
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