From: cbar40@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: Actual names - a spie
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:56:14 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

In article <1992Oct02.210911.45549@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, skaamjm@ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) writes:
> cixc0000@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Karyn Nelson) writes:
>>OK once and for all here is the picture:
>>Rangers were formed in 1873 as Rangers Football Club (RFC).
>>The word Glasgow does not appear in the name, although Rangers

Now I don't want to be seen here as being a wee bit pedantic but why does Andy
Goram, Defender (sorry goalkeeper) of the Crown and Scotlands number one,
number one, introduce himself on commercial radio in the following way  :

"Hi I'm Andy Rhodes of Glasgow Rangers .... "

in an advert for Scottish Football Today carrying this month The Ian Durrant
(pron. rhyme with currant - ask his old classmates) Story in which we hear of
Ian's battle with the booze and something about a tackle meated out on him a
few years ago.  Hasn't Mr. Simpson suffered enough in that he was hounded from
the Scottish Game for so long and now plays with that attack minded outfit -
M/Well.

Incidentally full marks to The Fir Park Board for their rebuilding plan at the
ground and loyalty to a manager who has done as much as most at a provincial
club - if not more.
 
And now, with that clever link ...

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> 
>>Likewise, over at the piggery, Celtic were formed in 1888 as Celtic
> 
> normally this sort of bluenose sectarianism might go ignored, but as
> you are posting about the correctness of names, we are entitled to ask
> just what are referring to as 'the piggery'?

The piggery I'm afraid is Paradise/Celtic Park/Parkheid/East End Vatican if you
like.  A stadium which as recently as 85-86 was playing host to crowds in
excess of 60000.  A stadium @ which I have many fond memories of Celtic success
both at domestic and European level.  The stadium which plays host to one of
the most consistent home supports in the country and the same stadium
controlled by a small group of narrow minded families who didn't have the
foresight to invest the successes of The Stein Era in the club so as to build a
stadium which would be suitable for future generations of Celtic fans and
indeed would be a suitable venue in which to reattain the team's status on the
Global front.  Celtic Park is adequate, adequate that is for 35000 people to
watch a game of football (provided of course 30000 wish to stand).  Facilities
there have improved over the years but that in part is due to legal
requirements imposed in the wake of the tragedies of Bradford, Brussels and
Sheffield - there has been no #major# improvement in the form of access,
seating or provision of catering facilities for the average fan at all. 

Discounting the new facade out front (which a Jungle Jim can miss completely)
the board have sat on their self  righteous arses and did nothing whilst all
over Scotland teams like Glasgow Rangers, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St.
Johnstone have built/or are building stadia of which they can be proud using
money either gained through success/wise business deals or even loans based on
the guaranteed income of certain support.  Celtic have shown nothing like this
and unless the proposed scheme that is Cambuslang comes off yir average Celtric
fan has every right to feel aggrieved.  The Celtic board are guilty of
mismanagement of the club - it is now up to them to show a bit of initiative
and give the fans a stadium of which they can be proud.

Piggery - perhaps not, inadequate, outdated and in need of major
improvement/flitting - certainly.


Dan
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