Ian McG

Aside from the awful end to the season for my club I firmly believe football at the top level is broken beyond belief ⚽️ VAR re-refereeing games and taking the joy out of the game and standards lower than ever before ⚽️ Exorbitant ticket pricing, multiple tv subscriptions required to follow your team, merchandise pricing and fans treated as customers ⚽️ TV coverage reduce to ‘shock jock’ panto sound bites for social media interaction ⚽️ High player wage bills no longer playing for the jersey and player connection to fans minimised by lack of local players ⚽️ Youth development stifled We want our game back

Rangers Player Pathway? Last nights game v Hibs should have been littered with Youth Players especially the likes of Kyle Glasgow, Ashton Scally & Luca Rankin. We keep hearing that agents and players are only interested in England but that's 3 boys that have chosen Rangers over England & in the first chance to give debuts in a nothing game & not, is really poor. The idea that we are prioritising winning a 19s League is utterly laughable and that is what's wrong with Scottish Football and it's approach to a "Player Pathway". Loanee's Meghoma, Aarons & Skov Olsen should have been left out in favour of showing an actual commitment to Rangers Player Pathway. Kyle Glasgow has committed to Rangers since he was 7yo & it's been his dream since that point to play for them... Loanee's have committed nothing. All 3 could have played a few minutes as a token gesture without having any impact on this 19s title & the impact that could have had on the next batch of kids not going to England could be huge. No proven pathway 🤮

My take: the ball hitting a hand is not always a handball offence. You have to either 1.) deliberately touch the ball with your hand, or 2.) ball hits your hand/arm when it's made your body unnaturally bigger. This isn't deliberate, and if the ball hits his hand - which is on his forehead in the middle of a normal footballing challenge - he hasn't made his body unnaturally bigger. Because the ball would have hit his head anyway, so his hand on his head does not make his body unnaturally bigger. Furthermore, VAR can only recommend an on-field review for a clear and obvious error. There is only one camera angle available, which does not show that the referee has missed a clear and obvious error. We can't see clearly where the ball hits. This is categorically not what VAR was brought in for, and it all needs ripped up in the summer. This is a really poor look for Scottish football, as you can see from the international condemnation online since the game. You really have to feel for Hearts. Unless you're a Celtic fan of course, that must have been class. But if you're not a Celtic fan. Deary me. Could be a generation defining decision, never mind season defining!

This might be the worst VAR decision I’ve seen (and there’s a lot of competition). Extraordinary given the significance.

What’s changed over the last few years isn’t just politics. It’s how comfortable people have become expressing hatred in public. Racism, xenophobia and dehumanising language now get posted openly, often with thousands cheering it on. It’s so depressing.

"I once received £5m, a further £1m, an £800k house, helicopter trips and a trip to the Maldives, and wasn't expected to do anything in return for it."

🚨BREAKING🚨 Keir Starmer once reclined his seat on a short-haul flight. In other news Nigel Farage has received a £5m gift, a house, helicopter flights, a Maldives trip and been accused of throwing an election for £1m. Here's Sam Coates with more on the reclined seat scandal.

@newburghfc @DavidSever18803 @RyanMusselburgh I think Ryan is stepping back from tracking attendances at the end of the season, and may already have done so. David originally started it, and Ryan picked it up when he had to step away. It looks like David’s taking the baton back 👍

@DavidSever18803 Is this the same project that @RyanMusselburgh does? I thought he was correlating this info and has done for a number of years?

Can anyone help with missing attendances / headcounts for Saturday 9th May, thanks, David

This is it… ❤️

"Cavenagh promised an era of 'sustained winning'. If he aims to come good on that next season he can't make the same glaring mistakes again." Free to read... @alexmooney50/cavenagh-in-firing-line-20c91f4e8de5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@alexmooney50/…

Reform's election success would not have been possible without thick, gullible morons like this chap, who thinks refugees get given £5,000 handouts over and over again.

From a local FB page. People like Reform because it has finally given them permission to express their racist hatred openly. 😢 ----- I have been an election agent for the Labour Party in Crawley for 8 years Yesterday, for the first time ever, I cried at a count. Was it because we'd lost a lot of seats, because we had? No. I cried because a very hard working, dedicated, British born Councillor of Pakistani descent had the word "deport' written next to her name on a ballot paper with a Reform vote. When the doubtful papers were shown to candidates and agents, I challenged the Reform agent to disown the vote and he refused. I saw a number of other ballot papers with racist, islamophobic and antisemitic comments. I'm used to the abusive comments about parties and policies on papers, we tend to have a laugh with them. I'm also used to the many pictures of penises on ballot papers (you guys are all so original), but I haven't seen so much hatred written on ballot papers. What are we becoming as a country? Why do people feel emboldened to put their hatred out there? It's vile.

Some guy whose mates down the pub call Barry the Bellend or Terry the Tosser is going to wake up on Monday morning and realise he's responsible for overseeing a £26 million regeneration project, and chairing a meeting of the local council licensing committee...

You should not be allowed to: 1 - Be a party leader and go on the regional list. 2 - Stand for a constituency and be on the list for when you lose.

Those who really need to watch this simply won’t 😞

If you're voting with the intention of "Protecting women", listening to them is a good place to start.

Britain's economy is flatlining because of austerity, Brexit, tax avoidance, utility company rip-offs and supermarket price gouging. Not because of the unemployed and the disabled.

This goal has nothing to do with Tavernier who twice warns Skov Olsen to stay tight to his man. Sutton knows this but can't resist the personal jibe at an easy target.

@GarryCarmody 💯% this. The first half completely lacked any killer instinct. A title-winning side smells the weakness Hearts displayed in that half and goes for the throat, but we seemed more focused on staying in control than actually putting the game to bed. Sooooo predictable.

Can’t get past our lack of intent in the first half. A team that’s winning the league senses Hearts’ weakness and kills the game off - we just looked happy to contain them and keep control.