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Richard McGinley<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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Back in 2012, when they went into liqiidation, I was firmly against the Scottish football needs Rangers mantra. However, given the events of the last decade or so, I’ve changed my mind. I’d like to thank them for the laughter and fun they have provided over the years<\/em> .\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0He’s got a point, because without them the world might have been a cleaner place, but it wouldn’t have been so much fun.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 From the moment we heard the letters EBT for the first time, right through until the appointment of Steven Davis and Alex Rae as interim managers to replace Mickey Beale and his Backroom Boys, it’s been one long round of fun and laughter.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Incredibly, their support, granted one which will never be admired or respected for it’s collective intelligence, hailed the arrival of the inexperienced Davis and the incompetent Rae whilst slamming the club for hiring the inexperienced and incompetent Beale in the first place.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Is Davis the new Messiah…?<\/div>\n
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We asked a fan….<\/div>\n
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\u00a0All sorts of names have been mentioned as a replacement for Beale, though it seems no one wants to ask why they hadn’t been approached by the club\/company when it became clear Beale wasn’t up to the job, which was about an hour after he took it.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0This leads one to suspect that they had already been asked, and turned it down, as one or two have made clear anyway.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Davis and Rae are two games away from winning a trophy, which would mean they would be acceptable to the success starved hordes for at least the rest of the season, which would suit everyone at Ibrox.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The support have welcomed two true Rangers men, and they have a point in Davis, who walked away when he was asked to sign for the new club, because, as he pointed out at the time, it was a new club.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 No one in the media will remind him of this, and no one at the club seems to bear a grudge against him, so one can only conclude that the so called Banter Years, the most consistently funny comedy show in history, has had a reboot with a whole new team of writers and performers, and not lost any of it’s quality.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Even the audience provide us with much mirth, as anyone who follows any of their social media, or, come to think of it, mainstream media, and one day, hopefully, someone will put together a docu series, one which would warn of the perils of breaking the rules in sport, one that exposes the corruption at the heart of the Scottish game, but most importantly, spreads the laughter and the joy, the fun and the frolics, and the side splitting hilarity of the story of the two clubs.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0After all, when something is this good, something that could shine the light of laughter into houses around the world, it would be rude not to share it,<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Last time out we had this….<\/div>\n
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Caption: Like most of them his head isn\u2019t screwed on right.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"OldGlasgow.com\nColourised](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/F7ihlMJXgAALN50?format=jpg&name=small\")
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