ABR?This is a PS to yesterday's post and is taken from an ITN reportPolice chiefs were "sickened and disappointed" after Rangers fans ran amock through Manchester.More than 100,000 supporters had travelled from Glasgow for their team's Uefa Cup final against Zenit St Petersburg.Many had been drinking all day and violence erupted at around 7.30pm when a big screen which should have show the match failed.Greater Manchester Police said a total of 42 people had been arrested during the night including three for ticket touting.Calm was restored after five hours of running battles between fans and riot police but the city centre streets are still strewn with rubbish, cans of beer and broken glass.Rangers lost the final 2-0 after a lacklustre display at the City of Manchester Stadium but the...
Scots and Irish come secondThe bloggee who not so long ago drew Huttonian's attention to Englands's defeat by Scotland at rugby has been somewhat reticent over this afternoon's result from Rome. The same reticence may also apply to the events at Twickenham where England had a good day at the office. The Bhoys in the Pubs in both Drogheda and Dundalk will be crying into their stout, poor lads. There are other things than being good at Rugby.As both the Irish and the Scots have known for some...
Scots out in blaze of somethingSometimes the poor Scots do themselves no favours with their anti-English ginormous Chip. Take this offering on the BBC Euro 08 Football blog:After claiming that the Scots would murder the Italians in tonight's qualifying match Braveheart continuesEngland are going out i cant wait to laugh at them ohh england are so great say the most hated nation in the planet Scotland came from nothing u still think ur amazing ur gonna get beat by croatia and im gonna laugh so hard at u nobodys as u continue to be the most hated nation with no euro spotFor this sober assessment to be realised Scotland had to beat Italy (2-1 would have done it) and Russia to win against Israel (2-1 would be fine) Sadly for Jock Strap Italy got the two as did Israel. So its good night for...
