Ally

Ally

@broonsky.bsky.social

Rangers and Scotland. Political science and public health. FKA GioVanBroonkhorst, Ally MickBeale & Abdally Sima.

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🧵 A bomb hoax in Glasgow schools last week revealed a fascinating geographic difference in the way parents reacted... A cluster of schools in the north and east of the city saw the biggest drop in attendance the day after the hoax, amid safety fears...

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Anyway, congrats Harry, you do deserve it, but let us always remember you like this 🙏🏼

Emily✨@emilyoram.bsky.social

I’m in absolute bits I’m so sorry if you went to bed and didn’t see this live

We have been brilliant and should be 2-3 up at least. But it's only 1-0. Same old story, all season. Before today we had scored 13 goals all season, from an xG of 26! Soon we need to start leveling up to where we deserve to be.

Glasgow Rangers Chat@glasgowrangerschat.bsky.social

Frustrating half hour so far but they’re playing well and just need to keep plugging away - Lots of half chances and plenty of pressure - it’ll come

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City spent over £80m on Ayyoub Bouaddi. Gave him 10 mins today, 32 so far and they can afford to ease him in as they spent £241m on two other midfielders. He cost over £80m! Love them, loathe them, like them, don't mind them, you cannot argue it's in any way healthy for football

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It's pretty remarkable that the most famous guy in the world, the richest guy in the world and the most powerful guy in the world are all the exact same kind of pathetic loser

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social

just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy it's incredible

VAR overturning the penalty on Doak was nonsense. Doesn't matter that, on slo-mo replay & stills, it looks like BGD stepped on the defender's foot. He had the ball, running full speed, the defender was nowhere near the ball, isn't entitled to knock BGD off-balance by putting his foot there!

Then, VAR intervening when nobody called for it, to give us a penalty was equally terrible decision. Only on slow-mo replay (again) can you see Miovski momentarily reacts to defend himself from a ball blasted at him from 3 feet away. Hits his arm, pen. Ridiculous over-punishment of the 'crime'.

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Journalistic balance does not require that you seek to find the positives in the largest, most sustained act of cheating in professional sports history. Especially if it's investigating an idea that, apparently, no one independent or respectable can be found to put their name to.

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BBC at it again

Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social

"The money flowed around football. It made a lot of other clubs richer. It helped teams everywhere and especially in the Premier League." Seems a bit weird to build an entire piece around a Man City-friendly claim yet be unwilling or unable to cite anyone making it. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Two wrongs make a right 💪🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Graham Ruthven@grahamruthven.bsky.social

Quality process by VAR to cancel out the legitimate penalty for Scotland only to award a nonsense one soon after... 🤦‍♂️

Look at this graph from @www.scottishfootball.info IMO Man City should be threatened with permanent expulsion from the EPL - unless they deliver full co-operation with further investigations into 2018-26 finances, and ongoing. They shouldn't get away with "only" 115 charges.

Everyone assuming Richard E. Grant is super smart just cos he's posh. He's just got a posh accent! He's clearly a Dick Nice But Dim.

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I think this will be one of the defining images of the Premier League's void years: a proudly working class fanbase celebrating that the ruling family of an oppressive regime had hired a barrister on £10,000-an-hour to try and prevent them suffering consequences for their cheating. Embarrassing.

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Replying to @uglygame.bsky.social

You'd like to believe that this might be a good lesson to people of what happens when you allow your identity to become so closely intertwined with your football team that you end up going to bat week-after-week for a repressive regime. But I don't think we are any longer that naive.

Re that last Repost. It's a big problem that people crave having their own opinions validated constantly, without reflecting on their own biases or flawed reasoning. Fortunately, all my opinions are immediately correct. Please like and repost if you agree.

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#MCFC reported pre-tax result across first three years Premier League PSR was fully assessed, spanning 2015-16 to 2017-18: £30.1m profit With ADUG 'tagged sums' removed: £354.4m loss

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Since Manchester City’s owners are guilty of systematic cheating, surely the punishments (relegation, huge fines, transfer bans) should also including stripping them of their right to run a football club?

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell.bsky.social

The Manchester City cheating scandal, just like Chelsea’s cheating under Abramovich, is the inevitable result of complacent regulators allowing British football to be used for sportswashing by charlatans, crooks and despotic regimes

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A 0-0 draw doesn't exactly scream 'bold new era,' but that second half was everything Pocognoli promised. Aggressive. Brave. Creative on the ball. Just a shame it wouldn't go in! Encouraging. Also Billy Gilmour - player 🤌

So eh full credit to Dan Purdy and Robbie Thelwell and the rest of the recruitment team then? FF was full of calls for them to be immediately sacked... pretty much all summer.

Glasgow Rangers Chat@glasgowrangerschat.bsky.social

We’ve got the better goalie, centre backs and full backs - Our midfield is better, our wingers are on a par and we have the better strikers - We’ve even got the better depth? Amazing turnaround in a couple of windows

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My assumption is they’re all scared that they’ll be knifed too. It’s the very definition of terrorism. They’re too frightened.

paulmccarthy79.bsky.social@paulmccarthy79.bsky.social

Why is our state seemingly paralysed in the face of these domestic terrorists? It's symptomatic of an absolutely hollowed out governing class. Unable to make anything happen, just bobbing along in the stream.

Sensational performance today, he's an old school defender who really loves defending, it's brilliant to have him fit and available consistently now

Rangers Review@rangersreview.bsky.social

🤩 A Sunday stroll for Sterling

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Celtic have now won just one of their last 11 games against Rangers in normal time in all competitions. Which is utterly remarkable considering that Rangers only returned to the Scottish Premiership 10 years ago.

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Good value for the lead at half time - The man for man is a high risk strategy defensively but we’re coming out on top in the duels and looking fairly solid - Could easily have had another one before the end there - CMON!!