Dog's Football Thread Part Five.

[Vicky]

The Siol Nan Gaidheal flag.

The Tartan Army won't be happy until that's our official flag.

[Vicky]

A documentary has been made about legendary football manager Bill Shankly.

Shanks was some man and many people believe, he's responsible for Liverpool being the huge club, they are today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41932500

[Vicky]

Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Matt Busby



Another two of the best managers of all time and between them, they managed nearly 2500 games for Man Utd.

Then there was Jock Stein.

The first British manager to win the European Cup.

I was born in the same town as Matt Busby and Big Jock played for my home team and of course Fergie played for Rangers.

[Vicky]

Unlike the Hillsborough, Heysel and Bradford City Disasters, there weren't television cameras to record the horrific events of the Ibrox Disaster in which Sixty-Six Rangers fans died.

There are some photos though and there's Big Jock helping the victims



Jock Stein was a nice man.

[Vicky]

Well that's good news for TJ this Christmas, his lads have the most days off over the Festive Season.

Leicester City will be the busiest team..

They have to play four games between the 23rd of December and the 2nd of January in the space of 213 hours.

Arsenal on the other hand, have 290 hours to play their games.

Which is the equivalent of three days extra rest.

It took 87 days to compete the first eleven games of the season, but the teams in England will have just 47 days to complete the next eleven.

[Dean]

Well that's good news for TJ this Christmas, his lads have the most days off over the Festive Season.

Leicester City will be the busiest team..

They have to play four games between the 23rd of December and the 2nd of January in the space of 213 hours.

Arsenal on the other hand, have 290 hours to play their games.

Which is the equivalent of three days extra rest.

It took 87 days to compete the first eleven games of the season, but the teams in England will have just 47 days to complete the next eleven.

Too many boring fucking International breaks Vic!

[Vicky]

Well that's good news for TJ this Christmas, his lads have the most days off over the Festive Season.

Leicester City will be the busiest team..

They have to play four games between the 23rd of December and the 2nd of January in the space of 213 hours.

Arsenal on the other hand, have 290 hours to play their games.

Which is the equivalent of three days extra rest.

It took 87 days to compete the first eleven games of the season, but the teams in England will have just 47 days to complete the next eleven.

Too many boring fucking International breaks Vic!

I don't like international breaks Dean, it breaks the momentum.

Rangers won their last two games before that break, we'll probably lose on Saturday now.

[Vicky]

It seems the winner of the Ballon d'Or has been leaked a month before the ceremony takes place and Lionel Messi has been announced as the winner.

That would be the sixth time Lionel has won the award.

[Vicky]

Antonella Messi has also let slip that she's expecting another wee boy and Thiago and Mateo will have a wee brother to play with next year.

[Vicky]

A Rangers website was asking which of these four would get your vote for Rangers manager.

Wee Del, Graham, Franky or Vanni.

I'm going with wee Del.

[Vicky]

Poor Vam is feeling like a Scot this morning after her lads failed to qualify for the World Cup.

That's the first time since 1958 the Italian lads have missed out on the tournament.

[Vicky]

Rangers have had a lot of Italian players over the years..

Here's Lorenzo Amoruso.

[Vicky]

My personal favourite.

Rino Gattuso



I hope Rino knows if he son Francesco plays football, he'll be playing for Scotland.

Rino's wife is from Glasgow.

[Vicky]

Some man, wee Rino.

[Vam]

Poor Vam is feeling like a Scot this morning after her lads failed to qualify for the World Cup.

That's the first time since 1958 the Italian lads have missed out on the tournament.

Che DISASTRO, Veeeekee!! Ciao Azzurri...

(I'm sure you get the gist)