Championees!

[Ally]

I've lost my voice somewhere in Glasgow. Awesome day yesterday including a mad dash back to Ibrox to hail the team bus back along with 30,000 others then a mad bender at Optimo.

[Dirty0900]

Well, you only have one team to beat for it

[matt]

Yeah it must be such a thrill winning such a mickey mouse league where it's either you or Celtic ending up Champions each and every year.

I look forward to your inevitable group phase exit from the Champions League once again...

[big screen satellite]

champions of what?

i'd be embarrassed winning that league every other year or so....

Celtic/Rangers need to play elsewhere...

this comes from a United fan who's team has won their league three years running

[stimpee]

Congrats Ally. even tho it is a bit of a mickey mouse league. Needs another Fergie to come and kick some arse like he did with Aberdeen, and for someone who isnt a total nutcase (like the bloke who bought Hearts) to buy some of the other clubs and actually let the manager pick the team...

[BeautifulBurnout]

Congrats, Ally! Nice one!

(Ignore the other miserable buggers!)

[Ally]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Congrats, Ally! Nice one!

(Ignore the other miserable buggers!)

Thanks, and yeah - shower of bastards

Dirty0900 - a wee bit like how Newcastle are gonna find division one?

Matt - charming...

Other Matt - Totally agree, but the team's a function of the league it's forced to play in. The 'best league in the world' is bankrolled by Sky money, you give the global brands of the Old Firm access to cash like that (Rangers can bank £10M for winning, Newcastle get something daft like an £11M parachute payment.......) and a calibre of opposition which that money buys and you've got guaranteed top-six finishing.
Make no mistake, winning this year was crucial for us to prevent Celtic running away financially. I couldn't give a flying fuck about flippant criticism like what I see here, I fucking loved it.

Steve - Yeah I know, but we play where we do and I love my team - best club in the world!

[Dirty0900]

Ally, just a joke mate, however:

People can mock all they like about Newcastle going down, but I personally don't care. At this moment in time, it was a dead cert they'd go down. Having roughly 5 managers in one season isn't going to help. Big Sam, Keegan, Kinnear, Chris Houghton and Alan Shearer isn't going to get any organisation going at all. Been like this for the past two seasons.

They need to go down and rebuild. Apparantly, Shearer will sign on and help get something going. I expect for Michael Owen to fuck off is anyone is daft enough to buy him alongside Martis/Jonas G/Bassong/Stephen Taylor as they may want better opposition then Norwich and Coventry. They don't do a pissing Leeds as they have players intact at the moment who are experienced and have youth players who have been there for a while. For once, they may have to call on what they which will be good at Championship level, instead of throwing money at people.

Oh and Mike Ashley? He is part of the blame for them to go down. When fat Freddie Shepherd was there, he may have been a crook, but we never went down.

[Dunwho]

I hope Barca do a job on Man U tonight....sink their battleship good

[stimpee]

Ally: the EPL is swimming in cash (un)fortunately. Thats how it goes.Teams either make loads or lose loads. I think Ranger want a slice of that, but if they do they'll have to see how the League of Wales suffers by having Swansea/Cardiff in the English league (tho obviously not to such an extent) because it would harm Scottish football. A victory is still a victory. You won the league. You still have to beat all the others. The Dutch league has been won by PSV/Ajax (except for a handful of years by Feyenoord) since 1981, until this year when AZ won it. Who won it in 81? AZ. People don't level the same arguments at the Dutch league... why not?