The Scottish Football thread

[Lineker]

Blimey.

[MDK]

Fuck me, pick that one out the onion bag, keeper. 

[Cymbols]

I saw a clip of that from Celtic TV, commentator absolutely no sold it, prick.

[Lineker]

Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has been charged with breaking rules relating to gambling on football matches.

The 34-year-old is accused by the Scottish Football Association of placing 44 bets between 1 July and 15 September this year.

Barton is due to return from a three-week club ban on Monday following an internal dispute.

The player has until 12 October to respond to the charge, with a hearing date set for 27 October.

SFA disciplinary rule 33 prohibits players, coaches, club officials and referees in Scotland from betting on football anywhere in the world.

In May, Partick Thistle midfielder Steven Lawless was given a six-match ban, with four of those suspended until the end of this season, after being accused of betting on 513 matches.

Two former Rangers players, Steve Simonsen and Ian Black, have also served bans relating to gambling rules breaches in recent years.

Dunfermline striker Michael Moffat served a four-game ban in 2014, when at Ayr United, after he was found guilty of placing seven bets on six matches involving his own team, as well as a number of other bets.

[MDK]

East Kilbride are currently chasing the record of 26 straight wins set by the might Ajax. They might beat it!

[Lineker]

Malky Mackay has been appointed as the Scottish FA's new performance director.

[DavidMarrio]

The highlight of Scottish football....Rod Stewart doing the Scottish cup draw pissed. 

 

[Cymbols]

I like that in England you have all this isotonic energy drink bullshit, whereas in Scotland, you have this:

 

 

[Chris2K]

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Rangers have announced they have accepted Mark Warburton's resignation, but the manager has told BBC Scotland he knows nothing about it.

Rangers announced on Twitter that Warburton, assistant David Weir and head of recruitment, Frank McParland.

It linked to a website statement saying that Rangers had accepted their notices of termination.

But Warburton says he was unaware of Rangers' statement and has not resigned.

lolwhat

[Lineker]

Rangers

Apparently their account was hacked?

[MDK]

6 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Apparently their account was hacked?

That old chestnut 

[Kaney]

That's amazing.

[Lineker]

Mark Warburton has called on Rangers to answer questions put to them by the League Managers Association (LMA) as he reiterated his position that he did not resign from the club.

In a joint statement with assistant David Weir and head of recruitment Frank McParland released on Wednesday, the deposed Rangers management team expressed their surprise that the club had not addressed the questions posed to them.

Rangers announced on Friday they had accepted the trio’s resignations and Graeme Murty took the team during Sunday’s Scottish Cup win over Morton.

The statement, released by the LMA, read: “Much has been said over the last few days relating to our departure from Rangers Football Club.

“At this stage, for legal reasons, it is inappropriate for us to comment in any great detail on our departure from the club.

“However, given that the club has seen fit to make detailed public statements, it is important that we should clarify certain matters and as such we would like to formally place on record, that at no stage did we resign from our positions at Rangers.

“It is a matter of surprise to us, and to the League Managers Association (LMA), which is advising all three of us, that despite its detailed public statements, the club has not answered key questions put to it by the LMA, in writing, requesting an explanation of why it suggested that we resigned from our positions.”

Rangers released a statement on Friday that claimed manager Warburton, Weir and McParland had come to an agreement to leave the club via their joint representative.

Chairman Dave King followed that up on Saturday with a lengthy update which criticised Warburton for his response to boardroom scrutiny and accused him of a lack of commitment to the club.

King claimed that after a meeting, their agent “subsequently offered that Mark, David and Frank would resign with immediate effect without compensation as long as the club, in turn, agreed to waive compensation from any new club that they signed for.

“After discussion the board accepted this offer and employment was immediately terminated. In order for us to achieve our ambitions we need employees that, like your board members, will always put Rangers first.

“While we were dealing with the admin and press releases relating to the resignation the agent again contacted us and asked to defer the resignation until the management had secured a new club.

“I assume that the new deal had somehow collapsed at the last minute.

“The board met to consider this request but resolved to hold them to the original agreement.”

[Lineker]

Rangers have confirmed Pedro Caixinha as their new manager on a three year deal.

[MDK]

Absolutely shocking dive in the Ross County/Celtic match  

I'd be annoyed if it wasn't so comical. 

[Cymbols]

Hibs vs Aberdeen is on BBC One Scotland right now. Good game too, 2-1 after 35 minutes. 

[Baddar]

Classy.

[MDK]

19 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Classy.

Classy

[Kaney]

Yeah there's a reason why they're known as Scotland's Shame.

[MDK]

6 minutes ago, Kaney said:

Yeah there's a reason why they're known as Scotland's Shame.

Glasgow?