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	<title>Comments on: The Season of the “Honest Mistake”.</title>
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		<title>By: Craig Blair</title>
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		<dc:creator>Craig Blair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Its all gone quiet about the refs...

Cant wait till the tims appoint lennon full time and lawell makes him sign any diddy from asia and that portugese no mark from hearts.

Peter lawell picks your team.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its all gone quiet about the refs&#8230;</p>
<p>Cant wait till the tims appoint lennon full time and lawell makes him sign any diddy from asia and that portugese no mark from hearts.</p>
<p>Peter lawell picks your team.</p>
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		<title>By: John Bulloch</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Bulloch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come on Phil - I can&#039;t wait to hear your excuses - I mean reasons for last nights sham - were the referee and linesmen all buddies? did they chip in with a few passes and ignore a few offsides? give them a few penalties to help them on their way? deny celtic a few penalties to stifle their creative flair?
Funny how when celtic appeal a red card (dutch centre half - i can&#039;t even remember his name he&#039;s so pish) - it takes the SFA about 6 months to review it and reject it - but when Rangers appeal - it&#039;s done and dusted and rejected in minutes...yeah - theres obviously a conspiracy...
lmfao - ye&#039;s are pish and ye&#039;s know it
Mowbray MUST stay
53 and counting - we welcome the chase</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come on Phil &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait to hear your excuses &#8211; I mean reasons for last nights sham &#8211; were the referee and linesmen all buddies? did they chip in with a few passes and ignore a few offsides? give them a few penalties to help them on their way? deny celtic a few penalties to stifle their creative flair?<br />
Funny how when celtic appeal a red card (dutch centre half &#8211; i can&#8217;t even remember his name he&#8217;s so pish) &#8211; it takes the SFA about 6 months to review it and reject it &#8211; but when Rangers appeal &#8211; it&#8217;s done and dusted and rejected in minutes&#8230;yeah &#8211; theres obviously a conspiracy&#8230;<br />
lmfao &#8211; ye&#8217;s are pish and ye&#8217;s know it<br />
Mowbray MUST stay<br />
53 and counting &#8211; we welcome the chase</p>
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		<title>By: Neil</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting reading. It would be good to see a comparison over a longer period of time - 20-30 years - to give a fair reflection. I think it was Gerry above suggested the Loughborough Uni. Why not? Having the facts investigated by an independant body can only be advantageous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting reading. It would be good to see a comparison over a longer period of time &#8211; 20-30 years &#8211; to give a fair reflection. I think it was Gerry above suggested the Loughborough Uni. Why not? Having the facts investigated by an independant body can only be advantageous.</p>
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		<title>By: Tony H</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Comment about schooling not worthy of response. Needless to say any &quot;brainwashing&quot; only served to help me along the road to atheism with no interest in the two bald men fighting over a comb arguments between different factions of Christianity or any other  religion.

Responses from Rangers fans re referee decisions follow the familiar spoilt child syndrome.

Firstly the complaints about no season extension in 2008. Incorrect. The season WAS extended, however understandable that Rangers fans should forget this as the media seem happy to let this myth linger. Therefore in the mind of the spoilt child and bully, the receipt of assistance afforded to no other team becomes a glaring injustice because the assistance was not full compliance with his demands.

Other things conveniently forgotten in the response - the frivolous cancellation of your own fixture with the mighty Gretna, a luxury denied Aberdeen and one that Celtic showed no interest in, and then failing to reschedule this and Scottish Cup replays at the first available opportunity. You would almost think Rangers had planned on securing an extension at an early stage.

Then there is the paranoia surrounding Phil O&#039;Donnell&#039;s death. Not worth dignifying with a response.

Let&#039;s take some of the decisions listed

&#039;Harsh sending off of Kevin Thomson&#039; was nothing of the sort, a leg-breaking tackle with malice which fortunately didn&#039;t make contact.

&#039;Dodgy penalty Bougherra at Motherwell&#039; was a clear foul.

&#039;Dodgy sending off of Bougherra at Motherwell&#039; Bougherra compounded the foul which denied a clear goalscoring opportunity by ranting and raving at the ref and thrusting his finger in his face. Always likely to result in a red card, for players of other teams anyway.

&#039;Harsh sending off of Mendes&#039; Only a Rangers supporter would consider a yellow card for kicking someone in the stomach and another yellow for a two footed lunge at an opponent as harsh. Especially when you&#039;re used to players being let off by the review panel for kicking opponents in the head.

&#039;Laughable penalty at Hamilton&#039; This comment defies belief unless the comment referred to the one awarded to Rangers for Lafferty kicking the ball off a prostrate Accies defender&#039;s arm at point blank range

Kenny Miller&#039;s sending off against Dundee United is mentioned twice in a desperate attempt to dredge up evidence. I happen to agree that the call was marginal but you are wrong about the review panel. The incident was reviewed and the appeal thrown out prompting Sir Walter to question the impartiality of a system that relies on referees to re-examine their own judgement.

Funnily enough the press unanimously thought this was sensible comment, however when Aiden McGeady said the exact same thing after the Scott Brown sending off the media launched into the customary hysterics about paranoia.

In any case the article was about PROVEN BLATANTLY INCORRECT decisions, not &quot;Dodgy&quot;,&quot;Harsh&quot; or &quot;a wee bit no fair&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment about schooling not worthy of response. Needless to say any &#8220;brainwashing&#8221; only served to help me along the road to atheism with no interest in the two bald men fighting over a comb arguments between different factions of Christianity or any other  religion.</p>
<p>Responses from Rangers fans re referee decisions follow the familiar spoilt child syndrome.</p>
<p>Firstly the complaints about no season extension in 2008. Incorrect. The season WAS extended, however understandable that Rangers fans should forget this as the media seem happy to let this myth linger. Therefore in the mind of the spoilt child and bully, the receipt of assistance afforded to no other team becomes a glaring injustice because the assistance was not full compliance with his demands.</p>
<p>Other things conveniently forgotten in the response &#8211; the frivolous cancellation of your own fixture with the mighty Gretna, a luxury denied Aberdeen and one that Celtic showed no interest in, and then failing to reschedule this and Scottish Cup replays at the first available opportunity. You would almost think Rangers had planned on securing an extension at an early stage.</p>
<p>Then there is the paranoia surrounding Phil O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s death. Not worth dignifying with a response.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take some of the decisions listed</p>
<p>&#8216;Harsh sending off of Kevin Thomson&#8217; was nothing of the sort, a leg-breaking tackle with malice which fortunately didn&#8217;t make contact.</p>
<p>&#8216;Dodgy penalty Bougherra at Motherwell&#8217; was a clear foul.</p>
<p>&#8216;Dodgy sending off of Bougherra at Motherwell&#8217; Bougherra compounded the foul which denied a clear goalscoring opportunity by ranting and raving at the ref and thrusting his finger in his face. Always likely to result in a red card, for players of other teams anyway.</p>
<p>&#8216;Harsh sending off of Mendes&#8217; Only a Rangers supporter would consider a yellow card for kicking someone in the stomach and another yellow for a two footed lunge at an opponent as harsh. Especially when you&#8217;re used to players being let off by the review panel for kicking opponents in the head.</p>
<p>&#8216;Laughable penalty at Hamilton&#8217; This comment defies belief unless the comment referred to the one awarded to Rangers for Lafferty kicking the ball off a prostrate Accies defender&#8217;s arm at point blank range</p>
<p>Kenny Miller&#8217;s sending off against Dundee United is mentioned twice in a desperate attempt to dredge up evidence. I happen to agree that the call was marginal but you are wrong about the review panel. The incident was reviewed and the appeal thrown out prompting Sir Walter to question the impartiality of a system that relies on referees to re-examine their own judgement.</p>
<p>Funnily enough the press unanimously thought this was sensible comment, however when Aiden McGeady said the exact same thing after the Scott Brown sending off the media launched into the customary hysterics about paranoia.</p>
<p>In any case the article was about PROVEN BLATANTLY INCORRECT decisions, not &#8220;Dodgy&#8221;,&#8221;Harsh&#8221; or &#8220;a wee bit no fair&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Ian Gracey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ian Gracey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phil Mac Giolla Bhain has managed to lose any little glimmer of respect he had in the media world by allowing this nonsense on his blog.  Not only is the majority of what Tony hamilton has written absolute nonsense, its also highly embarrassing to Scottish football that clowns like Hamilton are given a platform to spout their bile.

I feel sorry for Tony Hamilton, life can be tough for everybody at times.  But it must be an awful feeling that the whole world is against you all the time.  

I&#039;m also interested to hear how Gordon Smith, George Peat, Daryl Broadfoot, Greig Mailer and Fraser Wishart have managed to form some sort of Scottish mafia without anybody apart from Mr Hamilton noticing.  Where were they when we Rangers had a ridiculous amount of games in a very short period of time, due to bad weather and an ex celtic player dying and a celtic squad that didn&#039;t know him mourning for 2 weeks!!  Where were they when Celtic won league cup, where were they when celtic won the league 2 years on the trot.  If they are the protectors of all things Rangers then they dissapoint me.  

Am i correct in assuming the only way to make the likes of Hamilton happy is that celtic win the league this season and last, ultimately what he is looking for is not fairness but quite the opposite.  He&#039;s wanting somebody to make sure that the big bad Rangers never win anything.

Personally i blame the schooling, too much time spent getting brain washed about religion.  Not enough time learning social skills or being truely educated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil Mac Giolla Bhain has managed to lose any little glimmer of respect he had in the media world by allowing this nonsense on his blog.  Not only is the majority of what Tony hamilton has written absolute nonsense, its also highly embarrassing to Scottish football that clowns like Hamilton are given a platform to spout their bile.</p>
<p>I feel sorry for Tony Hamilton, life can be tough for everybody at times.  But it must be an awful feeling that the whole world is against you all the time.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m also interested to hear how Gordon Smith, George Peat, Daryl Broadfoot, Greig Mailer and Fraser Wishart have managed to form some sort of Scottish mafia without anybody apart from Mr Hamilton noticing.  Where were they when we Rangers had a ridiculous amount of games in a very short period of time, due to bad weather and an ex celtic player dying and a celtic squad that didn&#8217;t know him mourning for 2 weeks!!  Where were they when Celtic won league cup, where were they when celtic won the league 2 years on the trot.  If they are the protectors of all things Rangers then they dissapoint me.  </p>
<p>Am i correct in assuming the only way to make the likes of Hamilton happy is that celtic win the league this season and last, ultimately what he is looking for is not fairness but quite the opposite.  He&#8217;s wanting somebody to make sure that the big bad Rangers never win anything.</p>
<p>Personally i blame the schooling, too much time spent getting brain washed about religion.  Not enough time learning social skills or being truely educated.</p>
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