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And the phrase "thinking outside the island" was coined.

Did he start his conclusion with "When push comes to shove..."?

I'd argue that Martin did make a difference in those early Rangers Europa games. There was RussBall on show as his hastily put together side progressed. It's one of the big reasons they brought him in. Even so, those games were really early on. Plenty of Scottish sides are ignominiously dumped out of European competition. Martin offered a way of having a system that operated against technically better sides, through his possession. They did get hammered by Brugge. They were outclassed, went down to 10 men and imploded. Plenty of player errors to look at, along with Martin. Disclaimer: The above should in no way be perceived as an endorsement of Martin's PL season with us.

I think every team will be putting in a top performance because we were in in form side, along with Norwich, for quite a while. They know they have to, to get something from the game. We've kept the majority of our squad. So sides will also be more familiar with us, and we'll have to stay ahead. All in a league with a number of clubs fancying their chances of going up. Spygate will be well down their list of reason to try and play well, if it's on lists at all.

I did read a report that mentioned getting caught passing across the back a couple of times, and had wondered if it was the same.

Our new Anders Svensson. 🙂

Illegal

And then the post went in a different direction.

When I saw this headline on today's Beeb 'I felt Tourette's would ruin my life, now I teach at Cambridge' I just assumed it was him.

The networks and papers should joint fund a similar page for senators, congressmen/women etc with a leaderboard you can filter for bribery, sexual offences, lying, corruption and how crooked their backers are.

Trouble

I vaguely recall, from the eye most likely, that there was lots of government/political harrumphing about Fujitsu. Things like holding them to account and making sure they followed through on them saying they had a "moral obligation." And certainly not giving a company, who had caused so much damage (not just by themselves), new contracts. That was swiftly watered down to really just referring to bids for brand new things. A thing they were in the bidding process for, was fine. Then it was also fine to give them renewals on existing contracts. Because it would be fidgety and expensive to switch. All that was a while back. Plenty of parties involved in it just being business as usual.

Two pages and no one has asked what Queen Victoria's thoughts on anything are, from the afterlife!

Derek McInnes finding himself in a difficult Ibrox start. 3 games. 2 defeats and a draw. Martin had to start with CL qualifiers. His first 3 games brought a win and 2 draws. That disgruntled mix of fan opinion already setting in.

Good luck to him. Always a shame to see someone go, and he was a good part of our squad.