What sports teams do you support?

[Heid the Ba]

Two up after half an hour, this is looking straightforward.

[Heid the Ba]

Well not that straightforward but you know what I mean. Yes, I am wearing my Rangers polo top like an 8 year old.

[Heid the Ba]

Get it up ye! That’s a third. King Billy Park is our house.

[Heid the Ba]

I think I have a new lucky top. That’s four.

[Lianachan]

I think I have a new lucky top. That’s four.

Well the top certainly seems to be working.

[Heid the Ba]

Yes indeed. Four nil. At home to Galatasaray next. We have a former player and manager who has some history with them.

Played 24, won 13, drawn 7, lost 4.

[Heid the Ba]

Found it.

[Arneb]

Are these qualification rounds played with only one match per round?

[Heid the Ba]

Yes, one off games until the group stages. It is usually home and away but not this year.

[Arneb]

Nice, a final in every round. No tactical "ah we might make it on the away goals rule" glather. Regular time, extra time, penalties if need be, end of story. Like in the German FA Cup. No use Hertha would have trounced Braunschweig in the re-match .

[Heid the Ba]

And without a crowd there isn't the same home advantage.

[Lianachan]

Yeah, vastly reduced I would think - though probably still there slightly, through familiarity, lack of travel, yada yada.

[Arneb]

VfL Osnabrück 1 - 1 SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Hertha BSC 1 - 3 SG Eintracht Frankfurt

Played 26, won 13, drawn 8 lost 5

Ach, Scheiße!

[Heid the Ba]

Yes, Hertha gonna Hertha.

[Arneb]

Some patriotic consolation:
Jürgen Klopp
Hansi Flick
Julian Nagelsmann
are the three nominees for European Coach of the Year.

[Heid the Ba]

Rangers cruising at Motherwell. Two soft penalties for handball helped.

[Heid the Ba]

Motherwell 1 - 5 Rangers. Actually six nil since we scored all the goals.

Played 27, won 14, drawn 8, lost 5.

[Lianachan]

2 penalties and a sending off here, all of them (of course) favouring the visitors. Not seen any of it so don’t know if the ref got those right.

Ross County 0 - 3 Aberdeen

Worse performance of the season, I’m reliably informed.

Played 28, won 14, drawn 8, lost 6.

[Heid the Ba]

Half an hour in and nothing each, lucky shirt still working.

[Heid the Ba]

One nil! In Istanbul there is a bairn starting to doubt their lucky shirt.

[Heid the Ba]

Two! I may never take this shirt off.

[Heid the Ba]

They got a late goal just to make it interesting.


Played 29, won 15, drawn 8, lost 6

[Lianachan]

That’s a very good result. That shirt really works!

[Arneb]

Pics or it didn't happen!

[Lianachan]

Two! I may never take this shirt off.

You don’t happen to have a Ross County shirt, do you?