PhilJock

🇬🇧 Dad, Grampa and carer of the beautiful Tracy. Oh and I love the world famous Rangers Football Club (Scotland’s most successful club).🇬🇧

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

This needs to be posted every day from now on...

[SUPERB FOOTY PICS @SuperbFootyPics]

What A Lineup

[Bygone Britain @BygoneBritain]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A Coca-Cola delivery truck on Castle Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, with Edinburgh Castle in the background, 1953

[Today In History @historigins]

The children of hop pickers on a farm in Kent, England, photographed on September 3, 1940, as they took shelter in a trench at the edge of a field and watched the aerial combat unfolding overhead during the Battle of Britain

[Farva @FarvaRangers]

There isn’t being enough made about this.

Martin O’Neill was given a 1-2-1 with referee chief Willie Collum, that nobody else seems to have been afforded.

Then in the week after it, 7 key decisions were wrong which gifted Celtic the title.

Hearts should be all over this.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The longest line of sight in the U.K. has been seen only a few times, and photographed once. In 2015, Kris Williams was atop Snowdon in perfect conditions and managed to snap The Merrick in Southern Scotland. A remarkable distance of 232km (144 miles).

[Derek @DerekAllan61]

@andrewbluebells

[FTBL_Planet @FTBL_Planet]

When Andy Goram had three months left on his Motherwell contract, he already knew he was not getting another one.

He was coming towards the end of his career, driving to training with his wife Miriam, and the phone rang at half nine in the morning.

It was Ally McCoist.

That was suspicious enough on its own.

Ally did not usually phone people at half nine in the morning unless he was still coming in from the night before.

So Goram spoke to him, thought nothing more of it, and went into training.

At lunchtime, the phone went again.

This time it was Walter Smith.

Walter was at Everton then, but he told him to keep his phone on because somebody was about to ring him.

“What is it, gaffer? You got a job for me?”

Walter just told him:

“Just keep your f****** phone on.”

A couple of minutes later, the phone rang again.

“Goalie, it’s Alex Ferguson here.”

“We’ve got Bayern Munich on Wednesday and Liverpool at the weekend. Barthez is injured and Raimond van der Gouw is struggling. I need you to come down on loan until the end of the season.”

Goram knew exactly what was happening.

Ally McCoist could do Ferguson’s voice perfectly.

So he gave the only answer that made sense.

“Coisty, f*** off.”

And he put the phone down.

Then the phone rang again.

This time Goram told Miriam to answer it.

“Miriam, this is Alex Ferguson, and you can tell that fat b****** he’s got ten seconds to say aye or naw.”

It really was Sir Alex Ferguson.

So Andy Goram went to Manchester United.

Steve McClaren took him round the dressing room and introduced him to the squad.

Goram knew most of them already.

Then they got to Roy Keane.

No handshake.

Just Keane staring at him.

Goram looked at him and said:

“There’s no point is there?”

Keane just said:

“No.”

And that was it.

Keane was a Celtic man.

Goram was a Rangers man.

They did not exchange a civil word in three months.

Training did not exactly help.

They were playing eight-a-side one day, and Keane and Luke Chadwick were up front for Goram’s team.

Goram pinged a half-volley straight on to Chadwick’s foot.

Chadwick snatched at it and put the volley over the bar.

Keane turned on Goram straight away.

“Hey you, give me the f****** ball.”

Goram was not having that.

“What, do you get the ball just because you’re Roy Keane? F*** off.”

From that moment, the atmosphere was gone.

On the way off the pitch, Gary Neville came over to him.

“Goalie, we don’t talk to Roy like that down here.”

“We just don’t.”

Goram wasn’t ready to start building relationships.

“F*** off Nev, do you just do everything Roy wants? Now do one.”

Neville just walked away without saying another word.
#football

[Jambo Smithy @JamboAldo]

@CelticFC attract an entirely different level of utter scum don’t they? Imagine winning the league (albeit corruptly) then instead of celebrating with your pals and team you go to abuse your opponents who have been attacked as they were leaving the pitch.

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

Former Bayern Club President Uli Hoeness on the club's season ticket prices:

"We could charge more than £104. Let's say we charged £300. We'd get £2m more in income, but what's £2m to us?

"In a transfer discussion you argue about that sum for five minutes. But the difference between £104 and £300 is huge for the fan. We do not think the fans are like cows, who you milk.

"Football has got to be for everybody. That's the biggest difference between us and England."

The words are years old but the sentiment has never been more relevant. While Bayern keep their season ticket prices amongst the most accessible in European football, clubs in this country continue to price ordinary supporters out of the game. Some are charging five, six, seven times what Bayern ask of their fans.

[Jimmy UK Veteran ⬅️🟩🇬🇧 @Jimmyocx3]

@henry_Pringles https://t.co/SG0SjffGKt

[Henry 🇺🇸 @henry_Pringles]

🇬🇧 Members of the British Army's 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment prior to the assault on Mount Londgon, East Falkland, June 11 to 12, 1982.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Jeez. I really can’t be bothered. Idiotic questions. When you were a footballer did the ball hit your head a lot? I wish in a virtual world you really could have your independence so I could watch you cope with the shitshow it would be on debt, borrowing, currency, and the massive austerity it would entail.

[The Name of War @TheNameofWar]

British soldiers from the Cameron Highlanders chalk
"Hitler! Look oot, the Jocks are coming", 1939

[James May @MrJamesMay]

I’m sure we have all now seen the footage of Metropolitan rozzers kicking a suspected terrorist in the head, repeatedly, when he was down.

We can all play a part in putting an end to this sort of police brutality. Mainly by not going around stabbing people.

[PhilJock @Philjock]

@JohnCon72636524 😂