Euro afterthoughts: (No, I don’t mean The Rangers! - just some Post-Villarreal bile)

Need yer help here, troops: This isn’t so much an attempt at an “article” as a few day-after-the-night-before lingering thoughts on a night of great excitement and occassion … AND a big begging bowl for the aid of my spleen: I need to let fly and I want your assistance. Please - Feed my bile.

If I’m ever lucky enough to get the opportunity to get the thrush again I’ll be sure to tell the dock I have a problem with my “Graeme Speirs”! According to Gers@OpenFootie regular, Boaby, he’s behaving like a “Sad Little Prick”.

Didn’t see Speiro’s comments - what was he winding us up with now?

Neither did I see Dado’s hand-ball til I watched it on the STV highlights last night. Most folk around me didn’t know for sure what had happened - Govan Rear’s view was slightly blocked by the big lumey-shirted Latino behind Dado. We thought it might have been a push or something but eventually the word got round. Totally understand how Boaby feels about it (see 5th post on thread under preceding piece) and I think it’s times like that - when yer at the game/in front of the telly and watch it happening live - that ye get yer true feelings about a player: ye know me, I’m Mr Blindly Loyal - I’m a big softie about anyone who has ever put in a good shift for The Teds but maybe if I’d realised what was happening AS it happened I wouldn’t have been so forgiving. … Nah - I would have been. I love Dado, almost unconditionally.

To be honest there were so many arseholes all around me (Fucking CL tourists) calling The Gers “donkeys” and “useless” and worse, that I was getting more and more obstinately “Loyal”… First thing I did when Lovenkrands scored was turn round and aim a “gerritrightupyeyacunt” in the face of some neo-pensioner who’d done nothing but slag us from the first minute.

Not proud - he’s too old to use the internet probably - but he should know that THIS is the place we slag off the team, not AT a game where they clearly need all the help they can get!

Dado’s not fit and the need to compensate for that - coz he’s such an honest guy - is probably what lead to his brainstorm - he knew the boy was behind him and thot there’d be a clean header on Ronald’s goal if he didnae do something.

Instantly forgiven as far as I’m concerned but he’s clearly not on his game and, yeah, I’m not too fussed about him missing the second leg, especially as we only have one more competitive game before that in which he can get more match fit.

And - HEY - if my team-mates in the AT Mays Head Office XI hadn’t forgiven me for my hand-to-ball nightmare down at Largs all those years ago then I’d never have become what I am today: A fat bitter bastard who was never forgiven by his team-mates for one display of incompetence too many! :-)

PS - what about Waterreus last night? Thot he kept us in the tie a few times - exceptional.

PPS - who knows the score with the season-ticket holders in the centre of the Govan Stand - the Rear of it anyway? Last night, as I left, I noticed it was all junketeers, with their suits, passes and facial expressions which screamed “I don’t give a fuck about Rangers OR The Champions League or football really - I could just as well be at a golf day out” - there was a big Uefa sign up saying “Corporate” or “priveleged area” or “members section” or something which basically meant “tourists” and it made me wonder what happenes to all the poor punters who go to see us getting humped by Hibs and struggling with Falkirk but cannae get their own seats for the biggest games of this or any season?

C’mon , folks - Murray’s Lap Dog is about to bite its master here - I’m getting “anti-Chairman” vibes - someone stoke me up with info :-)

If yese don’t mind like. I’d be grateful. Thanks.