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When Andy Goram had three months left on his Motherwell contract, he already knew he was not getting another one. He was coming towards the end of his career, driving to training with his wife Miriam, and the phone rang at half nine in the morning. It was Ally McCoist. That was suspicious enough on its own. Ally did not usually phone people at half nine in the morning unless he was still coming in from the night before. So Goram spoke to him, thought nothing more of it, and went into training. At lunchtime, the phone went again. This time it was Walter Smith. Walter was at Everton then, but he told him to keep his phone on because somebody was about to ring him. “What is it, gaffer? You got a job for me?” Walter just told him: “Just keep your f****** phone on.” A couple of minutes later, the phone rang again. “Goalie, it’s Alex Ferguson here.” “We’ve got Bayern Munich on Wednesday and Liverpool at the weekend. Barthez is injured and Raimond van der Gouw is struggling. I need you to come down on loan until the end of the season.” Goram knew exactly what was happening. Ally McCoist could do Ferguson’s voice perfectly. So he gave the only answer that made sense. “Coisty, f*** off.” And he put the phone down. Then the phone rang again. This time Goram told Miriam to answer it. “Miriam, this is Alex Ferguson, and you can tell that fat b****** he’s got ten seconds to say aye or naw.” It really was Sir Alex Ferguson. So Andy Goram went to Manchester United. Steve McClaren took him round the dressing room and introduced him to the squad. Goram knew most of them already. Then they got to Roy Keane. No handshake. Just Keane staring at him. Goram looked at him and said: “There’s no point is there?” Keane just said: “No.” And that was it. Keane was a Celtic man. Goram was a Rangers man. They did not exchange a civil word in three months. Training did not exactly help. They were playing eight-a-side one day, and Keane and Luke Chadwick were up front for Goram’s team. Goram pinged a half-volley straight on to Chadwick’s foot. Chadwick snatched at it and put the volley over the bar. Keane turned on Goram straight away. “Hey you, give me the f****** ball.” Goram was not having that. “What, do you get the ball just because you’re Roy Keane? F*** off.” From that moment, the atmosphere was gone. On the way off the pitch, Gary Neville came over to him. “Goalie, we don’t talk to Roy like that down here.” “We just don’t.” Goram wasn’t ready to start building relationships. “F*** off Nev, do you just do everything Roy wants? Now do one.” Neville just walked away without saying another word. #football

@RangersTalk72 Sterling can go. Massively unreliable.

Keep Chermiti, Naderi, Chukwuani, Rommens, Sterling, Fernandez and Maybe Gassama on bench.

@RangersReview55 Pay more?! We should be pulling our funding for that corrupt system all together.

"Do we want to be in the New York Times talking about VAR decisions? Or do we want to say this is a journey and be really open with fans about how we improve it? Ultimately, it is Scottish football’s reputation, which we are part of." Jim Gillespie says Rangers will continue to lead from the front in demanding improvements to referee standards and VAR in Scotland. The CEO also says that the club would be willing to pay more in order to improve VAR. Rangers recently chaired a meeting with SPFL clubs on the topic: "We all agreed that we need to be more aligned on strategy and improve the standards. We can all shout about a decision, but what changes? Do we just apologise on the Monday? Do we accept that apology? “What has to change? Do we need to increase digital performance or have full-time referees? Ultimately, we are going to the World Cup and the Scottish FA is making some money. How do we get some of that to improve things?" @JoshuaBarrieRR rangersreview.co.uk/interviews/261…

Going by events from the weekend, if this had been in Scotland, Rochdale would have been champions…

They have had cheating in no less than 22 games this season. When you count all the points gained from these clips it's a whopping 17 points. They would literally have finished 4th or 5th. That doesn't even include the reds against us, Hibs, Hearts, Motherwell and Utd not given.

@ScotlandSky How did the manage to end it before the minimum amount of stoppage time had been played?

🚨 The SPFL have released a statement condemning the scenes after Celtic’s title win, while also confirming that the match had ended and not been abandoned. More ⤵️

SFA replied they would look at this when they got back from the Trongate.

An unbelievable decision. The referee ruled the goal valid following a VAR review

They’ve actually done it. They’ve actually just cheated Hearts out the league.

@RangersFC @4ladshadadream No mention that it’s his hat trick ya throbber? Admin cold at least pretend they’re interested!

47' Youssef Chermiti opens up the scoring in the second half with a powerful header inside the Falkirk box. Falkirk 2 - 4 Rangers

Referees, like anyone, should not have to suffer threats or intimidation. But this hasn't just happened in a scottish oasis of calm and tranquility where refs have been supported and lauded. There has been a form of aggressive lobbying from the top of one football club ever since the Dougie McDonald incident, this set a tone and agenda that their fanbase carried relentlessly without counter or repercussion. The referee strike and why it happened has been erased from history. That should have been a watershed moment - it wasn't They continued as they started to see results from the pressure, and successive CEOs / chairman / managers of Celtic maintained the tone and pressure - explicit and implicit. And now here we are. Rangers have occasionally spoke up when they feel the need, but nothing as concerted and pernicious as Celtic's 15yr campaign. This statement tells a story much higher than Beaton got threats because of Wednesday night, but most don't want to tell it.

Who the fuck is Taveriner?! Sack this clown that’s running the socials.

@BR3Loyal @Ladbrokes Odds on 👍🏼

Hi @Ladbrokes. Can you give me odds on the following for the game tomorrow; VAR chopping off a goal for Hearts, Hearts red card, Celtic penalty, Over ten minutes injury time being played if game is level after 90 minutes. This is an accumulator.

All Rohl had to do was let Tav lead the team out once more. Have his kids beside him and then sub him off. Cant help but feel he’s been massively let down here. Very poor from the manager and poor from the club not to acknowledge Tav last night.

@_DIGB Tims don’t have jobs mate 👍🏼

Celtic fans in the work explaining how it was a penalty

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In 5 days the following has happened; Hearts denied stonewall penalty v Motherwell Celtic scored an offside goal v Rangers Celtic stonewall red card v rangers not reviewed by VAR Motherwell denied stonewall penalty v Celtic Celtic given dodgy pen v Motherwell Beyond a joke

@JeffStelling @_DIGB The game is rigged up here Jeff. Look at the decisions celtic have had in their favour from the last week alone.

Seriously that is never a handball at Fir Park. The boy headed it 20 yards. The ref takes one look after VAR calls him over. Embarrassing for Scottish football.