AJF

A really good piece. It's concise and while she touches on her own experience regarding her love for football and how she felt, she then shifts attention from herself and on to the wider issue at hand.

The final being in Seville has added another element to our run to the final. Hopefully we can get the job done.

I am separating from my partner after 11 years together. Things ended amicably and we still have a lot of love for each other. We have accepted an offer on our home which I currently live in alone. As we go through the process of removing/selling furniture, each night I come back to an emptier shell of a house. I've never suffered from depression, and I don't believe I currently am either, but I can feel myself growing wearier. She was my first and only real meaningful relationship so I am new to this whole break-up malarkey. Alcohol has become more prominent in my life. I feel I am responsible enough to recognise signs of needing to speak about this. I've got a great group of friends and family, but it feels a little less daunting expressing this here than to them.

I’d like to see Lowry given a start. I think his appearances thus far show he is ready to. I imagine we will see a few first team players get some minutes to keep them ticking over but then fully rested on Saturday in prep for the final.

Describing a player as “in-demand” seems weird in an article where no other teams are mentioned as being interested.

Aye mate Category 4, that's all that was left. I'm the same, I was shocked to say the least haha!

Just got an email saying the threshold has dropped to 1502! Ticket acquired:

aye, I’ve not taken the plunge yet. In two minds. The fact that there are no planned fan zones and pubs apparently won’t be open to show it then there’s no point in going without a ticket. That’s how I’m trying to justify the cost to myself in my head

That’s what I mean though, why is it being painted by some as a Rangers issue rather than just a wanky comedian makes an arse of himself issue? The Jim Spence tweet highlighted that even more that for some reason, folk are desperate to cast blame on anything Rangers.

The fact this is getting released tomorrow with little advance notice at all makes me wonder if we are being forced into wearing it for the europa final due to some crazy kit clash or something

I thought I was able to accept no going to the game and watching it somewhere but after today I think I'm going to buy one off one of these secondary ticketing sites. It'll cost me a fortune but I'm that deflated right now I don't really care.

Aye, apparently so. There's a boy on another forum said he was below 1500 on Friday night, bought the Edmiston House package that night and then got his email today saying he's got a ticket as above 1511 points. Haha, contacted that guy right after the game on Thursday but tickets were already away unfortunately.

What makes it worse is that I've seen some people that were below 1500 points but purchased the Edmiston House package which adds 50 MyGers points instantly rather than at the next points update which has now resulted in them being allocated a ticket. I seriously wish I'd known that

Aye, just seen that. Gutted!

That's what I was thinking. Would be chaos if both Rangers and Frankfurt fans were just left to find their own place to watch it. Nah. Although I misread a post which stated 9am today was the deadline for the second batch of tickets to be bought, I thought that was when the leftovers would be released, so I'd imagine the leftovers as a result of fans going on the official flights will be put out later today at some point.

It doesn't seem like there are any official plans as yet for a fanzone that would accommodate those without tickets which I'm a bit miffed about. Should I go without a ticket I don't want to be trawling Seville for a pub to watch the game in!

I think we all know the answer to that already

I've noticed a few folk linking this story to Rangers somehow. It's very odd behaviour. Not to mention comparing racist/sexist/homophobic jokes to jokes about football does little to help or highlight Eilidh's complaints.

Agreed. He doesn't seem to have shown any signs of decreased levels despite getting on a bit now. Seems as fit as a fiddle.

Well look at it this way, if you receive £20m in transfer fees but spend £20m in transfer fees, that doesn’t mean you’ve brought in £0 worth of talent. You’ve still brought in £20m worth of talent. And we may have I lose track of the back and forths I get involved in on here

Net spend has no bearing on the amount of money spent on players though. I’d be surprised if Celtic’s combined wages and transfer spend didn’t dwarf Rangers’ by tens of millions even since Rodgers left.

This isn’t accurate, is it? Celtic’s outlay on squad costs has dwarfed Rangers’ consistently for the last 10 years has it not?

I’m hoping so! 9am tomorrow I’ll find out apparently.