Away Friendly v Rangers

[dannybcity]

Can't wait for this going to be a great laugh.

 

[UlsterBlue]

wouldnt mind goin to this actually since rangers are my second team.

 

[colinbellsboots]

wouldnt mind goin to this actually since rangers are my second team.

its like , when i was at school, 1975, you were either CITY or a rag, and celtic or RANGERS.....i was rangers have liked them ever since , there support is a bit crazzy....but if your loyal and blue its gotta be city and rangers .

 

[Glasgow Man City]

i'm well up for this, we should treat the stadium and city with respect.
lets show them how football fans should behave.

As has been said many times, the vast majority of Rangers fans did exactly that in Manchester. If you put 100k+ people in an area with very few bins, very few toilet facillities and a lot of cans, bottles etc of liquid you are going to get a mess.

Personally I think Manchester City Council vastly underestimated the amount of people coming to Manchester and therefore the proper facillities to deal with that amount of people were not in place.

As far as the riots are concerned, I think 8/9 have been charged, 3 from Glasgow (including 2 under 18's), 2 from Greater Manchester, 3 from other areas of Scotland, and 1 I think from the Essex area.

Lets not continue to make this out to be the fault of the vast majority of Rangers fans, or even the vast majority of the people of Glasgow.

 

[BlueMoon93]

i'm well up for this, we should treat the stadium and city with respect.
lets show them how football fans should behave.

As has been said many times, the vast majority of Rangers fans did exactly that in Manchester. If you put 100k+ people in an area with very few bins, very few toilet facillities and a lot of cans, bottles etc of liquid you are going to get a mess.

Personally I think Manchester City Council vastly underestimated the amount of people coming to Manchester and therefore the proper facillities to deal with that amount of people were not in place.

As far as the riots are concerned, I think 8/9 have been charged, 3 from Glasgow (including 2 under 18's), 2 from Greater Manchester, 3 from other areas of Scotland, and 1 I think from the Essex area.

Lets not continue to make this out to be the fault of the vast majority of Rangers fans, or even the vast majority of the people of Glasgow.

I didn't think the rags were involved in the trouble?

 

[tolmie]

Is Ashton Lane a goer then chaps ?

 

[aka blue jambo]

From the Scotsman website -

RANGERS have confirmed they will host Manchester City in a pre-season friendly.
The Scottish champions continue their preparations for the defence of their title with the clash at Ibrox on August 4 or 5.

The date for the meeting with Mark Hughes' side will be confirmed once the draw has been made for Glasgow rivals Celtic's Champions League third qualifying round in mid July.

Rangers also face fellow Barclays Premier League outfits Arsenal and Portsmouth over the summer and boss Walter Smith is relishing the prospect of facing more top names.

Brazilians Robinho and Elano will likely join England internationals Shaun Wright-Phillips, Wayne Bridge and Micah Richards for the trip north of the border, while former Celtic striker Craig Bellamy is also expected to play some part in the match.

Smith said: "Manchester City have a squad packed with quality and this match will give us another good test ahead of the new SPL season.

"I know our fans will enjoy watching players of the calibre of Robinho, Gareth Barry and Roque Santa Cruz and it should be an entertaining game.

"We have an exciting pre-season programme lined up following our three-game trip to Germany with matches against Arsenal and Paris St Germain in the Emirates Cup, Portsmouth at Fratton Park and now Manchester City so our players will certainly benefit from competing against teams of this calibre."

Tickets go on sale to season ticket holders from July 1 and on public sale, subject to availability, from July 14.

The full article contains 262 words and appears in scotsman.com newspaper.

 

[PistonBlue]

From the Scotsman website -

RANGERS have confirmed they will host Manchester City in a pre-season friendly.
The Scottish champions continue their preparations for the defence of their title with the clash at Ibrox on August 4 or 5.

The date for the meeting with Mark Hughes' side will be confirmed once the draw has been made for Glasgow rivals Celtic's Champions League third qualifying round in mid July.

Rangers also face fellow Barclays Premier League outfits Arsenal and Portsmouth over the summer and boss Walter Smith is relishing the prospect of facing more top names.

Brazilians Robinho and Elano will likely join England internationals Shaun Wright-Phillips, Wayne Bridge and Micah Richards for the trip north of the border, while former Celtic striker Craig Bellamy is also expected to play some part in the match.

Smith said: "Manchester City have a squad packed with quality and this match will give us another good test ahead of the new SPL season.

"I know our fans will enjoy watching players of the calibre of Robinho, Gareth Barry and Roque Santa Cruz and it should be an entertaining game.

"We have an exciting pre-season programme lined up following our three-game trip to Germany with matches against Arsenal and Paris St Germain in the Emirates Cup, Portsmouth at Fratton Park and now Manchester City so our players will certainly benefit from competing against teams of this calibre."

Tickets go on sale to season ticket holders from July 1 and on public sale, subject to availability, from July 14.

The full article contains 262 words and appears in scotsman.com newspaper.

Cheers mate, as I was reading that article I was wondering how many words were in it but couldn't be arsed counting them.

 

[tolmie]

I counted 261 !

 

[colinbellsboots]

i'm well up for this, we should treat the stadium and city with respect.
lets show them how football fans should behave.

As has been said many times, the vast majority of Rangers fans did exactly that in Manchester. If you put 100k+ people in an area with very few bins, very few toilet facillities and a lot of cans, bottles etc of liquid you are going to get a mess.

Personally I think Manchester City Council vastly underestimated the amount of people coming to Manchester and therefore the proper facillities to deal with that amount of people were not in place.

As far as the riots are concerned, I think 8/9 have been charged, 3 from Glasgow (including 2 under 18's), 2 from Greater Manchester, 3 from other areas of Scotland, and 1 I think from the Essex area.

Lets not continue to make this out to be the fault of the vast majority of Rangers fans, or even the vast majority of the people of Glasgow.

good shout, 8 or 9 arrested out of how many? hundreds should have been arrested .
i was there that day and i can confirm that a large number of those that tried to walk away from the trouble where fuming. but farr tomany idiots in one area , and all that booze , what else did you exspect.... ffs rangers have a massive following, which is great, but the fact that greater manchester police where in part responsible, for there over the top responce....
might have been better if the screan had been located in heaton park,at least it would have been contained and less chance of it getting compleatly out of hand....
i mean ONE of BRITAINS biggest clubs playing in a MAJOR final, what where they exspecting 4 coaches of day drippers lookin for a picnic?? simple resurch on the internet is very easy, at least them you have a real clue as what to exspect....i am in noway condoning anything that happened , but please a bit of resurch and it could have been avoided..