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Glasgow Rangers v Zenit St Petersburg
Manchester 14th May 2008

I will be there - picked up my ticket on Saturday!!! They are selling on ebay for £1,400!

Will be well over 100,000 Rangers fans in Manchester on Wednesday.

I have a feeling it will be a 90 minute siege on our goal reminiscent of the 900 day siege of Leningrad.

However, my prediction is:

Rangers 1 Zenit 0
Novo

You jammy git the bears are going mad trying to get briefs for the game. They reckon on about 100,000 going to manchester alone just for the atmosphere. Ibrox has the big screens going up. There is some talk about Glasgow green getting screens as well as george square. Get some piccies post them on here let the guys in the states see how fanatical the supporters are. Have a great time ....that was stupid you will have a great time. WATP.

Sell the ticket watch it on tv

put some chrome on your tba

( not into football me )

have a great time hope you win

Come on your Rangers.

Hope you have a great day out. Ironic really isnt it. You get to go to the EUFA Final and what beautiful far off exotic place to they choose to host the final......MANCHESTER Well at least they have decent beer. I think Tetley bitter comes from Manchester.

Good luck...hope you win.

Emmmm so this ticket when do you want the money to allow you to order up some of Brent and Eddies shiny stuff.

Sorry Eric, no can do! The shiny stuff will have to wait! Not for all the Chrome in Chromeland!

MON THE GERS!

Oh great . . . now I have to grab a Boddingtons . . . (I always keep some around).

Hope ye win!!

Almost all of them. It is always better at the source, but I enjoy a brew with flavor.

You should see me wandering through "Liquor World" . . . there are so many choices I almost sieze up! At the end of the day, I buy about 70% English and Irish, then I head to the US small batch brewery selections.

Try and down some Abbott Ale... my latest favourite

I think you can buy London Pride in Asda.. about £1.40 a bottle.

Where abouts in the UK will you be?

Abbott Ale is a good shout!

Although I remember the night I discovered Timmy Taylors - outstanding!

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Im flying in on a whirlwind visit. Spend three days with my dad in Thetford and then down to the Isle of White to spend a couple of days with my mum, and then back home again.

Cmon Mark admit it you are secretly a Gers fan and are flying in to see the teddy bears. Apart from that you know its going to be a ****** of a party and you canny miss it.

I've been sussed. Im a secret blue

Nooooooo. Though i will be cheering for you tomorrow, i am a full blown Red Blooded Gooner.

Well, I'm off to invade Manchester along with over 100,000 brothers (my mother was a busy girl)!

Back soon (with the cup)

MON THE GERS!

Sorry to hear the result fella! The Mancs cocked up the big screens too I believe.

2-0

Looks like they had a lot of trouble in Manchester. I hate that. A few morons ruining a good night, (albeit a dissapointing one) for the decent Rangers fans.

Hey BlueNose, you get home OK.

Cheers Lowey & Arsenalfan

Did not see any trouble - had a fantastic day a good 35,000 Rangers fans inside - outside well over 100,000. 50% of whom were drunk though. Many funny sights although one worth a mention is a guy (obviously worse for wear) having a conversation with a horse (no doubt discussing match tactics).

Must say they obviously underestimated the numbers. It Was total chaos in centre before I left for the match (45 mins walk - no wonder some of the Horse Whisperers didn't make it)!

The version I have had on the trouble was the Rangers fans reacted after having the dogs set on them. Probably a result of bad planning and way tooo much booze for way tooo many people.

Didn't help when the Big screens broke down I suppose :O

Didn't see all of the match, but the wifes says it was quite boring? What's your take on it?

Didn't see all of the match, but the wifes says it was quite boring? What's your take on it?

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Not one for a neutral I suppose. I thought the second half had plenty of action. Great experience though - the guy sat next to me had flown over from Atlanta and paid $2,000 for his ticket. Supporters clubs from all over the world represented except the Baghdad Loyal- they watched it in the British Embassy

Game was terrible Rangers tried similar tactics to those emplyed the whole way through the EUFA campaign. They should have started out with a more positive attacking formation Novo and Darcheville up front. A single striker will have no chance in those games. The long ball to Whittaker is predictable as well. Did Rangers not realise that Zenit would do some serious homework on how thay would play.

Over all great to make the final but a bit more thought and they could have had the beeting of these guys.


The crowd trouble absolutely disgusting some of the footage makes me amashed to say i support Rangers these people went to get drunk and had no self control or discipline. They are an utter disgrace they have not only shamed themeselves but all decent honest rangers supporters. I can only hope that the police use all the CCTV footage and bring these cretins to justiceand we should shame them further. Publish the pictures of these mindless morons in the Scottish press shame them. Theay should be shamed in front of there friends neighbours and colleagues.

The police in the past have used CCTV to identify football hooligans and they should do so again. I am sick to death hearing all these civil liberty groups bleating on about the rights of these poor defenceless pieces of trash. Whet about the ordinary people who spent a lot of money to have a great day out ruined will they be copmensated by these thugs? Not a hope in ******. Rangers can expect a fine from EUFA for this will any of these arses be sued to allow the club to recover the costs. Will any of them be sued by the injured police. Will any of them be sued by the businesses that were vandalised.

I am on my soap box so please excuse my ranting. A simple solution pick 12 names out of a hat of any that have been identified as being identified and whip them publicly and show it on TV if needed same as the Arabs do. Next time you can bet those 12 will be nowhere near trouble and a lot of other folk will think twice if they are to be punished if caught breaking the Law.



Sorry guys I am just a wee bit hacked off just now.

I saw the footage last night and was pretty disgusted myself. It looked like 70's & 80's footage. Manc' city council have cancelled the big screens for the Champions League Final now too. Tis always the minority that spoil it for the majority though, even though the minority was a large minority I couldn't understand why they didn't just put screens up in Glasgow tbh. Bloody same were ever you watch it on TV.

It was a great shame that the EUFA Final would be tarnished by a few morons.

For the most part violence at football matches in the UK is all but a distant memory. But occassionaly it rears its ugly head.

As a kid my dad used to take me to the Arsenal. Always loved going with him, but there were certain games that he was very weary about taking me too. Arsenal v Tottenham games and Arsenal v Man Utd games in particular. I can remember a couple of episodes against Tottenham that were very scary. The worst being on a underground train on the way home. A gang of Tottenham fans were going from tube station to tude station, getting on the platform and then as the train would pull in they would throw lead wieghts, fire extinghishers and any other heavy object that they could throw through the train windows. I was at Covent Garden station when we got attacked. Scariest moment in my life.

Thank fully, for the most part, this is a thing of the past.