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Celtic 3 Heats 1 - Martin O'Neill's Celtic clinched the SPFL title at Celtic Park — but the title celebrations descended into chaos when hundreds of Celtic fans invaded pitch at full-time, with Hearts players caught in the middle. Were Hearts FC players attacked? Goaded? Intimidated? And what does the SPFL's clear-up of whistle-gate add to the picture?  Peter and Roughie are joined by the panel to unpack a weekend of controversy, plus: Motherwell secure fourth, the search for Rangers' next manager (Steven Gerrard?), Scott Arfield to Livingston, the Scottish Cup final preview, and Jose Mourinho back at Real Madrid.  🟦 THE PITCH INVASION: Celtic fans storm Celtic Park pitch at full-time of Celtic 3-1 Hearts Hearts players "subject to intimidation, goading — and a couple were attacked" Hearts FC condemn the behaviour Police, SPFL response & whistle-gate fallout Alex Rae calls for strict liability for clubs with misbehaving fans  🟦 THE WIDER WEEKEND SCOTTISH FOOTBALL: Celtic clinch the SPFL title on the final day John Beaton ref-threat: police escort outside his house Motherwell FC secure fourth place Is Danny Rohl safe as Rangers manager or will Steven Gerrard return? Andrew Cavenagh sticking by Danny Rohl Scott Arfield in line for player-coach role at Livingston Mourinho returns to Real Madrid on a two-year deal  🟦 RELATED — TITLE-DECIDER CLUSTER: ▶️ Celtic Win The League | Celtic 3-1 Hearts:    • 🏆 FULL-TIME: Celtic 3-1 Hearts Reaction - ...   ▶️ Easter Road erupts as Maeda breaks Hearts:    • 🏆 Easter Road erupts as Daizen Maeda break...   ▶️ Sir Alex Ferguson's advice to Derek McInnes:    • ❤️ Sir Alex Ferguson's advice to Derek McI...   ▶️ Hibs fans celebrate Osmand sealing the title:    • Hibernian fans celebrate Callum Osmand sea...    CHAPTERS 00:00:00 How Celtic clinched the title at Celtic Park 00:06:00 Celtic vs Hearts — Hearts looked tired 00:10:00 Celtic Park pitch invasion — Hearts players attacked 00:14:00 Whistle-gate & the John Beaton police escort 00:17:51 Police escort outside Beaton's house 00:20:30 Celtic fans embarrassed — who's accountable? 00:22:00 Hearts FC club statement condemns Celtic fan behaviour 00:24:00 Should Celtic Football Club be charged? 00:26:00 Glasgow Green parade idea 00:28:30 Hearts' season post-mortem 00:33:00 Tactical: McInnes' back three 00:35:30 Celtic's European outlook 00:40:00 Rangers manager search — Martin O'Neill, Robbie Keane? 00:42:00 Andrew Cavenagh on Danny Rohl 00:44:44 Motherwell finish fourth 00:46:37 Champions League final preview 00:48:30 Falkirk 2 Rangers 5 00:52:00 Rangers' summer rebuild 00:58:00 Aberdeen post-Scottish-Cup 01:00:00 Scottish Cup final preview 01:04:57 Mourinho quiz answer

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00:00:00on facebook as well i'm delighted you could join us our sponsor is camera and commercials

00:00:04if you're looking for a quality new or used van sean's your man go to cameraandcommercials.com

00:00:09and he'll help you out in the studio alan ruff alec ray and tam mcmanus wearing normal clothing

00:00:16because of the weekend and boy are you a happy man not to have a heart strip on today

00:00:21i was 10 minutes away from eternal embarrassment to be honest with you and the strip was already

00:00:26the wheels are in motion from people at hearts to get me the strip so i'm pretty glad that celtic

00:00:32combined one i'm not gonna lie yeah um just before we start and obviously i think the good thing about

00:00:37it thank god i've got the uh three guys with me here is we will try and give you our

00:00:42honest opinion

00:00:43on the events of the weekend and our take on it and i have to say there's been a fair

00:00:49bit of hysteria

00:00:50but to put it into perspective uh it's nothing to do with football i just thought it was only

00:00:55right and proper that i'd mention this um that scott hastings passed away at 61 years of age

00:01:01um as a young reporter at radio fourth in edinburgh the uh well the lucky uh situation where i could

00:01:09interview scott on more than a few occasions when he uh would do some stuff for our rugby program

00:01:14uh he was a brilliant man a great rugby player and sadly passed away and it puts life into perspective

00:01:2161 years of age rugby and i was devastated when i heard it yeah i got very friendly with him

00:01:26and his

00:01:27wife and the family you know we used to go up to aberdeen every year and play pro-am golf

00:01:31day and it

00:01:32was a whole weekend it was playing cricket and everything you know and unfortunately i was at

00:01:37his wife's funeral a couple of years ago tragic circumstances there as well so i don't think a lot

00:01:44of his knew the situation he was in you know they obviously kept it in-house uh but when i

00:01:49heard the

00:01:49news yesterday i think we were more than me he would be devastated by the guy he's just such a

00:01:56nice

00:01:56guy and anybody who came across him he's so focused particularly in the rugby obviously did all the

00:02:01world cups and other but uh it's a sad thing yeah absolutely our thoughts and prayers go out to

00:02:06all his family and friends uh we love our sport um we certainly love football and what a weekend

00:02:14it was the main headline celtic win the title on the final day the spfl clear up whistle gate i

00:02:20thought

00:02:20i'd tag it like that uh pitch invasion hearts players um allegations are being attacked intimidated

00:02:27uh and crowd trouble in the city center we'll debate that mother will secure fourth place congratulations

00:02:32to them andrew kavanagh is sticking by danny roll scott arfield's in line to be the player coach at

00:02:38livingston it's the playoffs with partick thistle going to take on st miran and we still have the

00:02:43small matter of the cup final to come and by the way the special one is back at real madrid

00:02:47on a two-year deal there you are i've just managed to cover as many of the bases as i

00:02:53possibly can

00:02:54so with that in mind um josé marino the special one i thought i'd do the elite joinery and fire

00:03:01protection quiz for you and it's fairly straightforward how many trophies has josé marino won at real

00:03:06madrid do you want to have a wee go at that one because he's been there before ten seven seven

00:03:13i'll

00:03:14go six six okay we'll give you the answer at the end of the program today good luck with that

00:03:21thanks

00:03:21to uh elite for sponsoring our quiz question as ever and we'll start off by saying congratulations to

00:03:27derek mckinnis scottish football writers association had their dinner uh last night they've had some

00:03:32fantastic speakers along the way and eventually they just had to cut the budget you know year in

00:03:38year out uh tam you were the main speaker

00:03:44you were the main speaker last night oh man struggle like that bye hold on to that five minutes into

00:03:50i was like oh a wee uppercut yeah uh did you do well yeah it was good uh i was

00:03:55on after uh big chris

00:03:56sutton oh it's dovey renna yeah i think derek must have thought when he sat down me and him by

00:04:02the

00:04:02speakers so did you do walk on at the end no uh kept it uh non-celty green rangers but

00:04:12uh no i've

00:04:12been doing well and uh i thought roger hannah who was hosting it for the first time done really well

00:04:18as well so it was like it was a great night and uh fair play to derek for turning up

00:04:22must have been a

00:04:22tough one for him and claudio braga spoke really well as well um so congratulations to him and

00:04:29obviously barney stewart as well yeah absolutely uh barney stewart picked up the uh scottish football

00:04:33writer young player but uh great listen yeah you know it must have been a tough time for him uh

00:04:39we

00:04:40will discuss and digest all the events and try and offer our take on it without too much hysteria

00:04:46but to turn up at that event you know it would have been the hardest thing uh bearing in mind

00:04:52they've been they've been at the top of that table for so long alec yeah i think it would have

00:04:56been a body blow in the back of the developments the day before and the disappointment peter because

00:05:01they've led for such a long time and uh but i think it says a lot for derek you know

00:05:05i mean he's

00:05:05been recognized by the writers uh these guys you know they they trap up all over the stadiums

00:05:12the grounds throughout the course of the year and i've obviously announced derek as a the manager

00:05:16i think he's been absolutely tremendous i think he's led that team brilliantly

00:05:20and um i think they are a kind of a mold of him as a person you know you watch

00:05:26him develop over the

00:05:27years uh and he's got them really bang at it and unfortunately for them he just couldn't go over

00:05:32the line in the end yeah uh we'll discuss that um because it was the showdown it was the one

00:05:37that

00:05:37everybody was talking about three goals to one celtic won it in the end um the atmosphere was

00:05:43unbelievable ruffy i was there obviously um not in the press box but pretty close to it uh the

00:05:50atmosphere was incredible it wasn't a great game and if i you know i i'd rather we'll start with the

00:05:56positives and then we'll get into the negatives but in the end you know martin anil made as derek

00:06:02mcginnis has had uh been able to do on many occasions he utilized the squad changed the formation

00:06:09and the and the changes won the game for them yeah you're right you know the game itself you

00:06:13know and after 45 minutes i think if if i'd been a hearts player i would be saying to myself

00:06:18we can do

00:06:19this you know this team aren't great this team aren't causing as many problems you get the first

00:06:24goal uh unfortunately the penalty knocks you back a wee bit but certainly in the dressing room

00:06:29you would believe in that uh you could get something at that game but i thought when the clock hit

00:06:3575

00:06:36a lot of hearts players look tired they looked really tired mentally and physically and obviously

00:06:42as you said martin threw and the subs that uh turned the game for me you know i thought they

00:06:47came on they were fresh and they certainly that time we're going forward and going forward and

00:06:52hit the post you know a couple of wee goalie had a good save but you saw it coming but

00:06:56i mean to be

00:06:57three minutes away if we win in a league would be hard to take the other thing about it and

00:07:03i know

00:07:03some people have been you know and you guys are professional footballers some people have been

00:07:08getting miffed about derrick's tactics of wasting time this is a team that have led the table for so

00:07:15long you're going into basically 60 000 who are against you and you're trying to come out and please

00:07:22750 fans and you're trying to take on a team that their favorites then to win it and to score

00:07:29from the

00:07:30corner you know you're automatically thinking you you would any team would use every trick in the

00:07:35book yeah i don't think it's time wasting i think it's game management and that's you know derrick's

00:07:40great at that i think his team were really good at that the whole game i thought the first half

00:07:43he had his tactics perfect he left orson trusty on the ball you let him have it i think he

00:07:49had the

00:07:49most touches of the ball in the first half he let him have it he didn't he didn't double the

00:07:52you

00:07:52know he just left because he can't pass the ball he's a bag of nerves

00:07:56eh kabori dropped into mcgregor the whole first half very disciplined dropped into him mcgregor

00:08:00couldn't get on the ball either the two fullbacks i thought snuffed out yang and tenecte and hearts

00:08:05were brilliant in the first half and if they got in at 1-0 i think they'd have won the

00:08:08league peter i

00:08:09think that penalty just before half time was crucial for celtic was it a penalty yeah it's a penalty

00:08:13kick um it comes off his hand i don't think there's any dispute in that but i just thought at

00:08:19that

00:08:19time celtic were struggling and and if hearts could have gotten it 1-0 i'd have fancied them to go

00:08:23and win the game but

00:08:25just celtic getting that goal and then the start of the second half a little bit better as ruffy

00:08:28said the substitutions that came on hearts looked leggy i think benigni making off was a huge blow for

00:08:33the injuries he got early doors time really gave him it was a real setback for them because it then

00:08:38kind of hampers what you can do later on in the game because you've already used the two moments

00:08:42i also thought the big blow and we're not making excuses we're making observations on it i thought

00:08:47leonard and halkett going into it without those two as well you know because if you're looking for a

00:08:53rear guard and you're looking for defense and you're looking for the midfielders to suddenly

00:08:57lock in and then halkett and finley would have been there i'm not saying it would have changed

00:09:02the game but those things are blows as well and another thing if you look at it alec i just

00:09:08put

00:09:08together the the post split you know martin and you'll say after the defeat to dundee united win

00:09:12eight consecutive games oh no it's incredible you know and then from the 14th of march hearts had two

00:09:18defeats to killie and celtic and the draws against livingston and mother will absolutely killed them

00:09:24rangers four consecutive defeats out of five after the split no it's listen if you listen if you're

00:09:30touching on rangers that's nowhere near good enough you know they they folded you know we talk about

00:09:34the pressure and uh i think we'll go into that later on peter about the mentality and things it's

00:09:39been very well documented from the rangers perspective from the manager and now the owner

00:09:44so you know but the one thing that celtic did was they went into overdrive at that period and

00:09:49they showed their level of consistency it was interesting because we were sitting in here

00:09:52i don't know five six games to go and go listen don't worry about it people they're going to drop

00:09:56points you know each team we said this week in week out celtic never and they were relentless and

00:10:01they managed to go over the line yeah and there's a few bits that we have to try and clear

00:10:05up ruffy

00:10:07the referee clears up the fact that when celtic score the third goal the full-time whistle's blown

00:10:12end of story i think i didn't see it i didn't hear it he must have been the only one

00:10:16that had

00:10:16i must admit i i looked i mean do you know the funny thing is ruffy and this is the

00:10:21one thing

00:10:22that takes us into the area where i think we've got to pull no punches on it i didn't hear

00:10:27that

00:10:27didn't see it i saw the fans coming on to the park i could hear the majority of people in

00:10:33the ground

00:10:33were absolutely raging with them these were people who were jumping on at one point tam before i get to

00:10:39the hearts players at one point i looked and there was a like a guy who easily was 50 years

00:10:44of age

00:10:45running about on the park and i'm thinking what what are you doing what are you doing you know

00:10:50why are you on the park now we could have the um rod petre line from many many moons ago

00:10:55you know

00:10:55the over exuberance i get where marty neil's coming from they've just won the league you get

00:11:00people jumping on at the park you get kids jumping onto the park and you know that's fine but when

00:11:06you get to a point ruffy and i watched the two hearts players specifically because i was watching

00:11:10and i was in a position in that stand where i could see clearly shankland and the fans were goading

00:11:18them

00:11:18and they were coming towards them now i don't know as a professional footballer tam but if somebody's

00:11:23coming towards you you are not wondering you know am i going to let me i'm going to wait you

00:11:27know you

00:11:27are trying to get him off you they shouldn't have been subject subjected to the intimidation the

00:11:32goading and a couple of them were attacked and i think the celtic fans are embarrassed by

00:11:38that group of people who thought it was okay to go towards heart players i thought it was bang out

00:11:43of order yeah i think everybody to a man would agree with that you know you heard the booing you

00:11:48know from the majority of the the supporters in there they knew exactly what was happening

00:11:52you that situation again you should be celebrating no talking about all the bad things about it and

00:11:57that's what these people went on the park did they took away a wee bit at that moment in time

00:12:02of the celebration that should have been there and the chance for the hearts players to go to their

00:12:07supporters and say thanks very much so that's what that hooligan element that we're on the park did for

00:12:13that game the police um have said that they'll view the cctv innocence or guilt will not be determined

00:12:21by punters or pundits or anybody putting out their own narrative guilt will be decided by people who

00:12:28check and say why were you on the park we've got cctv of you if you have been in any

00:12:33way um guilty of

00:12:35attacking a hearts player then you'll be found out that will be determined by the police and the spfl will

00:12:40look at the footage and they'll determine what fine comes celtic way because i think they know they're

00:12:45going to get a thing yeah they certainly are peter at the very least you know you were at the

00:12:49game

00:12:50you're you're at 50 yards for the for the action you know so you've you've got a better view than

00:12:55any of us here and if you're saying that you know hearts players were attacked then and you know i'm

00:12:58going to take your word for that so there's going to be cctv looked at there's going to be police

00:13:02involved and i'd like to think if they if they catch people who were on there you know and assaulting

00:13:07hearts players they'll be banned for life and there's no other getting away from that you can't

00:13:11just say oh we'll fine you or you'll get a year's ban don't get back to the stadium yeah one

00:13:15of the

00:13:16things that i found really disturbing at the point and because i know a lot of the backroom team at

00:13:20hearts i i could see one of the people who works in hearts administration claire cowan coming on to

00:13:28the park and she looked visibly shaken and upset as she was trying to get them off off the park

00:13:33and that for me i thought was was a really scary moment if you are there i'm not surprised

00:13:41about them just going straight on the bus and just going they must have been absolutely devastated

00:13:46on the flip side of that that you know the majority of celtic fans ruffy are there to enjoy the

00:13:53game

00:13:53john swinney the first ministers come out today and say that look at legislation to make it illegal

00:13:58to go onto the park you know i don't see that i don't see that coming into effect that that

00:14:03is

00:14:04martin o'neill said in talk sport today you're talking about they've scored a goal to win the league

00:14:09people are people are excitable over exuberantly will go on the park but you know there's so many

00:14:16clubs right across the whole of the uk fans go on the park what are you doing you're arresting them

00:14:20all yeah we see it every year i mean you see it in particular down in england i mean alex

00:14:24probably

00:14:24saw it down there at the playoffs you know most of the the end of the games sometimes the whole

00:14:30part's covered in supporters because they're they're celebrating their team but it's it's stay away

00:14:35for the opposition you know celebrate with your own players you know and enjoy the moment but when

00:14:40you start doing the things that you were talking about there that's just a no-go area but uh you

00:14:45the situation to win that goal and i don't think you can and i don't know if you can blame

00:14:51the police

00:14:52you know for the you know they're there to stop that kind of thing or the scoot the stewards we

00:14:57all say

00:14:57you know you could do better but i don't think anybody expected it peter peter sorry so see the

00:15:04thing is in terms of where we go as a society or sort of as an organization the football and

00:15:09things

00:15:09where do we go with it all because if you don't put any legislation in the sfa don't do any

00:15:14sanctua

00:15:15like that a lot of fine um so you've got the sfa you've got the spfl and you've got police

00:15:20scotland

00:15:21who they feel as if they have been hard done by you know maybe some of the stuff after the

00:15:26game and

00:15:26things so you have a real kind of concoction of things that if nothing gets done or nothing gets put

00:15:32in

00:15:32place then we just it just rolls on i i accept i accept that point and by the way i

00:15:38i would usually

00:15:39read out uh quite a number of people who want to engage with us on the program uh you know

00:15:46i i'm not

00:15:46really bothered whether you like what i'm saying or not i don't care um i was at the game i

00:15:51watched it

00:15:51i don't think fans should be allowed to go on and intimidate and goad um and go towards hearts

00:15:58players and threaten their safety i just don't think it's right um and we where do we go well

00:16:06i'll tell you i'll tell you what we've witnessed in the last week which again sums the whole thing up

00:16:10you have you have police outside john beaton's house you have and i know this for a fact andrew

00:16:18dallas for the worst week of his life you know for what he called on the var john beaton calls

00:16:24a

00:16:24a handball these boys are doing their job yet their families are under threat you have a situation

00:16:33now where you have and quite a lot of people buy into it and that's fine you know you don't

00:16:37need to

00:16:37come and watch plz soccer or or listen to radio stations if you don't want your freedom of choice

00:16:43you can do what you want but we have in the last year i've witnessed more than anything

00:16:48you have people now you and i've had this discussion when you first come back to scotland

00:16:52you have flag wavers you have people who are absolutely so partisan on air you know and i and

00:17:00i've had in the last 24 hours somebody on their twitter naming me in a and a joist that he's

00:17:06had with

00:17:06you um you have fans literally on uh parading as pundits making all sorts of stupid statements

00:17:14to try and you know you know stick with their own crowd you know but there's a lot of really

00:17:20good

00:17:20journalists a lot of really good pundits who are balanced who can look at something and call it as

00:17:24it is but we i don't know how we do it i don't know how we police it it's so

00:17:27difficult to police

00:17:28you can't go and arrest everybody who's on the park you certainly can't arrest people like the

00:17:34person who's been arrested for for releasing john beaton's no no dad because that's a data

00:17:38protection thing isn't it and so see the thing is and the ramifications of that what was it online

00:17:44they did it on tour yeah so the ramification for that are absolute idiotic and madness because

00:17:50ultimately john beaton's now sitting with a police escort patrol outside his house which is not

00:17:55acceptable now does that detract from so there's two separate things this boy decides to put that

00:18:02on line which causes john beaton untold distress which is bang out of order and i don't think

00:18:07anybody could condone that kind of starts as madness but then you've also got the refereeing standards

00:18:12which most people are feeling is across the board feel as if they've declined a little bit this year

00:18:17yeah i i just think you know and it's not just about it's not it's certainly not just about

00:18:22celtic roughly that the social media society as a whole thinks it's okay that you you you can get

00:18:30away with well that's i thought i think we talked about it a couple of years ago and there was

00:18:35somebody down in parliament or something that was bringing out some new legislation instead of hiding

00:18:40under a name you have to be published as the name you know that behind it yeah and i thought

00:18:47they

00:18:48were going to stop that i thought they were going to pursue that and get that out the window but

00:18:51that obviously i mean these people are just hiding behind a name you know and well done to the police

00:18:58for catching that guy who were beaten i don't know because i suppose he would use a another name so

00:19:03it

00:19:03can be done you can do it but as you say you know there was far too many people on

00:19:08that part not

00:19:08everybody you know threatening hearts players but the ones that were threatening them i'm sure ccd

00:19:14we can catch them they have to be seen to be in something doing something i mean there was i

00:19:19remember the

00:19:20guy that get caught and he's he's his company sacked him yes you know things like that that's

00:19:25that's the things that get you would like to think that's the thing that gets through to other people

00:19:30to stop them doing it what about strike liability peter they tried that like two years ago i don't

00:19:35think i know the clubs voted against it no no but no no i know the clubs are voting against

00:19:40it but

00:19:40what i'm saying to you is if certain fan bases regardless of what club it is yeah then if there

00:19:46was a punishment to that club a deterrent so you say he's got not necessarily the weekend and i'm

00:19:51talking about across the board well if that was the case hearts would win the league because

00:19:54celtic fans came on when they scored in the game against rangers no no i mean he's talking he's talking

00:20:01about i'm just talking about going forward for example just pluck it any any fan base comes on

00:20:09the pitch yes and you forfeit the game that literally that so what i'm saying is then the

00:20:14responsibility becomes to to the club for the fans behavior and then that way there's nowhere to go

00:20:20but then what you do is you put a stop to because fans will not come on the pitch if

00:20:23it costs you

00:20:24three points well can i tell you something i i i i i understand where you're coming from but the

00:20:29problem is here you know celtic and rangers are now in a battle to see who's paying for

00:20:34when the broom broom loan road end was wrecked yeah in the scottish cup tie yeah there's a debate over

00:20:39how much money the celtic fans don't get that they've wrecked an area where celtic are going to

00:20:44have to pay money i don't know i i mean and by the way does that not go back to

00:20:48liability then

00:20:49has that not been the case for a long time because i think yeah that has been the case for

00:20:52rangers and

00:20:53celtic fans going to both grounds they have to pay but it hasn't stopped them so strict liability

00:20:57but be a bit of a minute peter and listen we see this a lot with paratechnics they go oh

00:21:02we're

00:21:02looking at monkeys we're going to just kind of whistle we love this display it's another 20 000

00:21:06pound fine it's not really it it's not really hurting anyone is it really but i think the clubs

00:21:10right across europe and especially in scotland i think you're right robbie i don't think they want

00:21:15strict liability they're not willing to imagine it was points peter well absolutely can you imagine

00:21:18time they're going to think about it and by the way see if you think like as an example at

00:21:22the

00:21:22weekend the majority of celtic fans weren't quite happy with these folk going on the pitch

00:21:27according to not just you but most people were at the game they were booing if they were going on

00:21:32the pitch no one find where that we're going to lose points there would be self-policing believe me

00:21:37if you ever want to go on that pitch you'd be going where you going yeah they'd be filled in

00:21:40after the

00:21:40game absolutely costing the team a league and listen the other thing about it and this is the other

00:21:45thing about uh the context of it all is you know the majority of celtic fans were there the atmosphere

00:21:52was absolutely fantastic the 752 hearts fans were there were singing their hearts out as well

00:21:58it had the makings of just an unbelievable occasion had hearts been able to hold on

00:22:04you know can you imagine the feeling i mean the pubs up and down edinburgh were all stacked with

00:22:09people it was it was absolutely incredible i've no problem with the the and by the way i'm giving

00:22:16you the narrative of what's come out from it ruffy which is basically from from from the moment it

00:22:23happened um hearts condemned the behavior uh and then said you know the pitch invasion invasion caused

00:22:31a chaotic end and nobody seemed to know whether or not the match had been brought to a finish

00:22:34they've mentioned that as well but they paid tribute to derrick mcinnis and the staff

00:22:39um and none of them deserved the disgraceful scenes that unfolded now um sbfl sent the

00:22:46congratulations to celtic and then at the footnote overall and i'm paraphrasing here condemning the

00:22:51scenes which saw a number of celtic supporters encroach onto the field of play they're going to wait

00:22:55for the match reports on that and see what happens and they'll obviously uh urge anyone with

00:23:01information about alleged criminal activity to contact police scotland celtic to their credit issued an

00:23:08apology apology to hearts the staff um for what prevailed after uh the ball hit the back of the

00:23:15net um we apologize to hearts for the situation encountered by their players and staff at the

00:23:20conclusion of the game and for the fact that these events prevented them from saluting their own

00:23:24supporters at the end of an enthralling campaign to which they've been contributed so much

00:23:29i don't know if the strict liability understand where you're coming from i don't know if that

00:23:33i don't know if that will be brought into effect i don't think they'll embrace it um but the other

00:23:39thing that john swinney did point out was should there have been a situation where celtic should

00:23:45have made known that there was going to be a gathering an event if they won the league at celtic

00:23:51park or at

00:23:51a park or somewhere let's go rather rather well glasg or glasg green rather than this situation which

00:23:57you have in the city center roughly where yob's across yob's just just wrecked the place

00:24:03it's not the first time it's happened it's happened there it's happened at joz square

00:24:06and the damage that gets created it's just it's just not one at all you know and for it have

00:24:13happened once twice three times and something or somebody i don't know who would be charged it

00:24:18maybe the club themselves have the responsibility to say right you're going to the glasg green

00:24:22there's a cordoned off bit there and that's where you're going or something like that but

00:24:27nobody again nobody seems to have taken notice nobody's taken you know it's happened and it's

00:24:33happened and they just forgot about it do you think there needs to be some kind of summit in the

00:24:38summer

00:24:38something i mean i know i know listen i know george folks and what did i say to you on

00:24:43friday i say to

00:24:44you if celtic win the league there will be calls for inquiries there will be you know this that the

00:24:51other would take place and that's exactly the way it's unfolded george folks is calling for an

00:24:55inquiry he's written a letter to fifa now i'm not in any way diminishing his uh right to do that

00:25:01i'm

00:25:02just saying do the spfl need to take the lead first of all and try and the clubs as well

00:25:06i think the

00:25:07clubs have got a it's their supporters that are causing all the damage so i think they all should

00:25:11get around a table you know we keep hearing about meetings that they keep having but this is getting

00:25:16so important now that uh it's happening far too often and it has to stop peter listen listen to

00:25:22john swanity did he can i allude that there was a fan zone place so that the hearts fans would

00:25:29have

00:25:29been attending we got we got um information from hearts that if they were to win the league this

00:25:35would be the process and the process would be they i think they got to the city chambers at a

00:25:39certain

00:25:39time and and go all the way in a parade down to time castle the fans would be allowed into

00:25:44the

00:25:45stadium and then they could celebrate with the players open top bus there would be interviews

00:25:49there would be an open top bus as well which yeah because see the thing is i think listen listen

00:25:53see with the various councils so you've got edinburgh council you've got glasgow council um and i think

00:26:01because you need planning you need permission from the council if you go to glasgow green you would

00:26:05need uh permission for glasgow city council there and i don't think that's hard if rangers won the

00:26:10league taking to bella houston park you know if they want to take a lap on around ibrox

00:26:14and then obviously parkhead you go to the the nearest part to that yeah and then facilitate

00:26:20that and then you would be there for security and things because it would be in a park you're

00:26:23not in the streets of glasgow roaming about to whatever time for across the board yeah or

00:26:29edinburgh for that matter um we wait to find out what punishment will uh come the way of the people

00:26:37who were on the park because you're not allowed on the park simple as that so we wait to find

00:26:43out

00:26:43what happens there it doesn't take away and i think martin o'neill was right to point it out it

00:26:47doesn't take away from the fact that uh you know over the course of the game over the course of

00:26:52the

00:26:52season they've somehow through all the madness ruffy you know wilfred nancy brendan rogers they've

00:27:00somehow with a 74 year old man managed to get in there and wave the wand work out how to

00:27:07get the best out

00:27:08of a honda civic i hate to say to you but i did i did say to you i said

00:27:19there is something about

00:27:20martin o'neill we have chopped and changed our opinion but i said the martin o'neill effect and

00:27:25i was mocked for it on this program the martin o'neill effect is great there's something about him

00:27:31he still has what people have in this game and i think you have it as a quality you know

00:27:36is you can

00:27:38you want to do something but you want to get to put your head through a brick wall we've said

00:27:41that

00:27:41all along about a manager coming into a a new club when he walks through that door you then either

00:27:49look

00:27:49up and go well he's got that aura and it's the same at every club you know when that new

00:27:54manager

00:27:55walks through and he and he's got something and martin has got something there's no doubt about it he's

00:28:00been there he's done it and he's actually been honest enough to say when at the training ground

00:28:04people think i'm a vagrant because he does it in yeah he just walks about well the two coaches

00:28:10obviously do the coaching he does his bit yeah whatever that is you know and if you ask any of

00:28:15the players when he walks into the dressing room and he says something then they take it in yeah and

00:28:20that is a great thing to have if you're a manager but i'm not i i think he does something

00:28:26i think what

00:28:26he does is he sits there with the coaches and said look listen this is the way i want to

00:28:30play it

00:28:30you go and instruct that i don't need to be on the i don't need to be on the training

00:28:34pitch but i'm

00:28:35going to work out the motivation i'm going to look at the way the game's on listen this guy's won

00:28:39two

00:28:39european cup medals this guy's won two a championship he's been unbelievable um and countless honors as a

00:28:47manager in england and in scotland so he knows how to change games he understands it but the great thing

00:28:53that i think about malik is turn around and have a word with you he puts your hand on your

00:28:57back and

00:28:57said listen son i know i know exactly you know the thing is you because i worked with peter reed

00:29:02never took any of the training and obviously he did some incredible things at sunderland

00:29:08and but they have a persona when they talk you're like you're hanging off every word they did walter

00:29:14smith had it as well yeah you know i don't i know walter did the the coaching but what he

00:29:17had that

00:29:18presence and that kind of and i'll and i'm thinking back to because before you threw in the

00:29:22two uh champions league uh european cups back in his day yeah do you remember him sitting on the

00:29:28panel for itv do you remember he was sitting with two two world cup one else they went boys you

00:29:33don't even know who i'm on but i had two two european cups in the bag so calm down boys

00:29:36you know what i mean so that shows you he's got the whole stick and i go cool so the

00:29:41thing is

00:29:42and a lot of these boys wouldn't have known who martin and he was when they come in

00:29:45but as soon as you find out and you get that kind of interaction with him right away you know

00:29:49because you could sense it after these guys yeah and the other thing about it which i thought was

00:29:55fantastic and i've got a lot a lot of time for him um tam is he looked at it at

00:30:00half time and thought

00:30:02this isn't working and we and he did say on friday you know we are going to throw the catch

00:30:08and

00:30:08sink at this we're going all out all guns blazing so he brings on ianacho and then that the

00:30:15real three after that that swung it for me he brings on james forrest who then goes forward

00:30:20immediately he brings on srachi who's going past players he was very good and then he brings on

00:30:25the forgotten boy who was very very good before he got injured callum osmond yeah the substitutions

00:30:31changed the game changed the flow of the game changed the momentum of the game and as ruffy said

00:30:35earlier i think when an actual turns inside hits the post and then it was a header that came in

00:30:40it

00:30:40was a great save of the goalkeeper you're thinking right there's a goal coming here and

00:30:43i just think you know martin's obviously a top manager but you're right i think he just he's

00:30:48got he smells he smells something and he goes right i'm going to play him i'm going to put him

00:30:52on there and he knows how to get results so i think martin and he was dragged a mediocre celtic

00:30:58squad over the line this season honestly if you don't get him in celtic don't win the league

00:31:02you know if wilfred nonce is allowed to sit in a couple of weeks celtic don't win the league

00:31:08they pulled the plug at the right time they got martin back and they won it in the last day

00:31:11but if they left it another couple of weeks it was done tam do you know you make a really

00:31:16interesting

00:31:17point there about the subs i think over the course of the season i think the biggest impact has came

00:31:22for the celtic bench because the amount of times they bring players on and they get late goals you

00:31:27know ian natural forest has done it as well and and and that for me is crucial because we've spoke

00:31:33about

00:31:33the importance of hearts they look this season they've managed to bring guys off the bench you go

00:31:37that's like for like and i think the depth has helped hearts considerably but i think the class

00:31:42coming off of the celtic bench is ultimately it's got them the title because they've scored so many

00:31:46goals later on do you think you should be offered the job do you think you'll want to take the

00:31:50job

00:31:51or do you think there's someone else well obviously everybody's listening to the wee soundbites after

00:31:55the game when they ask him he'll go i'm 74 you know i like having my coffee down in london

00:32:01and all that

00:32:01but if he gets offered that he's not going to say no if he doesn't he take it i really

00:32:06do think he

00:32:07should have some part in and celtic moving forward i think a board a board him and the board the

00:32:12board

00:32:12are obviously getting pelters off all the fans all year they're if they're not sensible enough they're

00:32:18putting him on that board because if he goes on that board that'll quell some of the stuff that's

00:32:23going about and his wisdom he's got in the game must rub off on them particularly where they were

00:32:27talking about the rejuvenation of the whole team you're talking 15 players maybe

00:32:31going out and 15 players coming in so you need some is that what they're talking about this year

00:32:36they'll go about eight out and loan the loan players will all go there's going to be drastic changes

00:32:41they're also by the way the division between fans and the board hasn't gone away so i i wonder if

00:32:49dermot desmond will look and try and you know look at changing the board freshening it up and then

00:32:54maybe changing the attitude because the next person who comes in if it's martin remember martin was the

00:32:59manager he controlled everything at celtic first time around he'll not be coming back in you know

00:33:05looking for some people saying i'm doing this i'm doing that if he gets a one or a two year

00:33:10deal

00:33:10he'll be saying well i'm the manager i'm controlling this you know so i think from that point of view

00:33:16he's definitely going to there's going to be some talking to say have i got the money have i got

00:33:21the

00:33:21backing to get the players i want the same ones that brendan wanted you think they'll give him the power

00:33:25peter because modern day managers don't tend to have that whole autonomy well jabby alonso has

00:33:31just been made manager of chelsea yes you know so it's it's you know it's not as if it's it's

00:33:35something that's as you say alec in this day and age alec if you had two young coaches can you

00:33:41afford

00:33:42to have somebody like that matter just making just making give you the energy the younger coaches

00:33:47i'm going to be honest with you i think maloney's helped him considerably and i don't i genuinely don't

00:33:52know how it played out at half time yesterday whatever it was a couple of days ago and i don't

00:33:57think that played out i really genuinely believe that maloney had a big impact on that going to the

00:34:03back three yeah genuinely a day because see the thing is if you're happy with a back four and you've

00:34:07gone that most of your career to flip to a three yeah he played a three when he was himself

00:34:11when when

00:34:11they were still take the first time three big center halves and a gap one side thompson the left

00:34:16so it might have it might have gone back to embracing that sometimes as you know yourself

00:34:21sometimes it's about the players you've got available that can allow you to do that but it

00:34:25got to the point where he said well i'm hooking trusty because this league's slipping away you know

00:34:28and and you could sense you said they were tired ruffy i thought they were tense the hearts players

00:34:33i thought they started to get nervous i think when you're at one each you're at one each you're

00:34:39you're just hoping you've got individuals in there are going to put their body in the line and

00:34:44stop them creating chances but celtic started getting chances where they weren't getting the

00:34:49minute and then the mentality thing comes into it lauren shanklin ran his course you know he was

00:34:55shutting down people he was he'd last 15 minutes he'd done his bit i think psychologically you must be

00:35:02saying to yourself three minutes three minutes man surely we can hold it for three minutes yeah

00:35:07i don't know if it was attention peter i genuinely felt as if it was a dip because of the

00:35:13amount of

00:35:14pressing they've done in the first half yeah so you know you're pressing your life out and then

00:35:17all of a sudden you're kind of so much so that they get a couple injuries yeah you know people

00:35:21are going oh the hamstrings are gone because they're putting so much into it i remember you a

00:35:25couple of weeks ago and this is the key element here and i think um i think i think this

00:35:31is where

00:35:31the difference is is when you've got players who suddenly then want to go forward and go past the

00:35:36man that you know you're creating a two-on-one yep yeah because sir actually suddenly is a left

00:35:41back because past two players yeah you know um forrest goes forward better than yang could

00:35:47on the flank and then ozen breaks he gives you a little bit of pace and there's two up front

00:35:52ruffy but listen at the cold light of day i think martin and the the players and callum mcgregor and

00:35:57everybody's got the right to have a little i mean i noticed the players were out and they were

00:36:01you know they were out with the the social media with their hand over the the head and

00:36:04neverland everybody's got the right to to wallow in it they deserve great credit for it for hearts

00:36:10i think they can go back and say what a season they gave us what a season where we were

00:36:15incredible

00:36:15i mean i predicted hearts from january would win the league i did see last week that i thought there's

00:36:19no way they're going into celtic park and getting a draw or a win roughly i just thought that that

00:36:23they'd blown their chance by then but you know we all were we're all over the place with a prediction

00:36:28i think i think at the beginning the beginning of every year i would say the neutral movie you know

00:36:33obviously rangers and celtic somebody always wanted somebody to split them we always wanted a

00:36:39a challenging league something that could not just for the two of them to be running away with 15 20

00:36:45points and hearts have done that you can't take it away from you last october they've done more than

00:36:49that ruffy they've not just split them they've took them right to the way and i mean as you read

00:36:54out

00:36:54there that probably the last third of the season it faltered a wee bit you know they weren't picking up

00:37:00many wins as they were early on but you can't take anything away from it yeah it's a point for

00:37:06some for a club out with rangers yeah yeah some points tally listen really consistent over the

00:37:12whole year claudio braga won scottish football writers player of the year barney stewart won

00:37:16young player but derrick mckinnis won manager of the year you know and great credit to uh martin

00:37:23neil who do you think should be the manager if it was and there's a there's so many great things

00:37:29about to happen but if it was me and i was looking and i was saying who would i like

00:37:35to see in his

00:37:37celtic manager i'm i'm afraid wait a minute hold on i'm going for jen's birth

00:37:44listen if celtic i want to be forward thinking they want to play the brand of football that a lot

00:37:50of people would like to see um i think he should be the manager if martin is off you might

00:37:56need to

00:37:57get in quickly because there's another club in for him yeah i'm not i'm not i wouldn't be surprised

00:38:01who's that wolf's birth abroad no no it's a french mob but it's a toulouse yeah sorry i know you've

00:38:06got a lot of contacts in the game and you've got your ear to the ground what are you hearing

00:38:10i'm

00:38:11just saying that i what can i tell you something come on martin i'll tell you this martin anil was

00:38:16not being considered in the last month for the job as manager martin anil was there just get us over

00:38:23the line the first time around he didn't get any kind of there was no connection to say you know

00:38:29what's happening after this noncee's in thank you very much and goodbye so when he come back in the

00:38:34second time you know you're thinking to yourself well he's got another win oh dundee united's a

00:38:39setback but then they've started to gather pace he wasn't he wasn't being considered and and i think

00:38:45i think it would be wrong not to consider him you know i'd like to if martin wants the job

00:38:49great

00:38:49give him it for two years would you not imagine sorry peter would you not imagine that the celtic

00:38:53board would already have someone in place now you know the season's done no that's no that's

00:39:01but the thing is i've had such a long time and do you imagine being at this stage and you've

00:39:06actually gone and you're humming in hand whether you're going to give it to the manager you've

00:39:09probably not considered because you've said a month ago it's not considered that was i'm saying so

00:39:16no and i i think they were just saying let's wait and see let's wait and see let's wait and

00:39:19see

00:39:20and now he's on the verge of getting a double and i said to you before tam martin anil wins

00:39:25the double

00:39:25there'll be a clamor from celtic fans to give him the job now my point on this is what's celtic's

00:39:31biggest problem apart from recruitment and the way this board has conducted itself what's their

00:39:35biggest problem the fans want to see european football and and at least some kind of credibility

00:39:43back on the european stage so if they want to be forward thinking if they want to do what

00:39:50dermot desmo was able to do to try and stop dick advocates rangers which is quite simply go for a

00:39:56manager that has got a budget can transform the squad and can bring credibility back on the european

00:40:02stage who's out there is it a robbie keen is it is it martin anil is he going to get

00:40:09a two-year deal

00:40:09you can't give him a one-year deal it doesn't work all that means is you're just shunting it down

00:40:14the

00:40:14year and down the season so i like the football jens bertha alaska who played with motherwell with

00:40:20with the limited players that he had i think if he was given a budget and given the same type

00:40:26of

00:40:26footballer that wanted to learn wanted to develop wanted to play his style i think the celtic fans

00:40:31would love it i would certainly love to see a jens bertha alaska at celtic if there's a better manager

00:40:36out there than the celtic board know about it crack on you know but that's that would be my choice

00:40:41i

00:40:41don't know about you uh from the style of play yeah i think any any supporter would want to see

00:40:47that style of a play that mother will do you know obviously you would like to think celtic would

00:40:52have better players than motherwell so that would be taking it forward i just think this board would

00:40:58look at martin anil done particularly well and going he's doing well nobody's bothering about us

00:41:03no why don't we just give him the job and and keep the success i think we'll probably look on

00:41:07that

00:41:07yeah you've got to well let's let's wait and see you know because they're not getting any hassle

00:41:12now nobody's bothering their backside with the board you know that and martin has done what he's

00:41:18done you know and obviously maloney's there and the coaches are doing well and they've already had

00:41:23their fingers burnt with the last guy so big big choice who it is they bring in celtic fans will

00:41:29not forget what's going on this year ruffy you wait till that scottish comes out of the way and

00:41:33they'll want matters addressed yeah you know but i do i agree with you i think dermot desmond's got

00:41:38three or four candidates in his mind he's probably just actually been tweaked on the thought wait a

00:41:43minute i've got to be respectful to martin anil here and what he's done i'll have the chat with

00:41:48martin and say martin where are you at are you tired do you want it for two years he says

00:41:52he wants it

00:41:53he'll give him it martin anil's unanimous choice i think for the celtic supporters as well the popular

00:41:59choice i think to a man moving in child who'd want martin anil as the manager i want him as

00:42:03a statue

00:42:03outside the now ruffy you know i think i think if he said he wants it's interesting the other one

00:42:07for you imagine you've done a poll and went like who would you want martin anil or ask you

00:42:11oh the next celtic manager i think it'd be a fascinating poll and the reason being is because

00:42:15see for what he says about bringing the style yeah you know what i like about this guy and he's

00:42:19young and all and he's got a wee bit about him so see when you hear him in press conferences

00:42:24he's not a pure motive it's like he's thoughtful he's insightful and he's also got a wee bit of

00:42:30bite about him i like this guy yeah listen um give us your thoughts on it um my apologies to

00:42:37people

00:42:37that were not reading out some of the comments because as you can imagine uh some of the comments

00:42:43a lot of the people we have on our program who come on and i'd like to thank them all

00:42:47there's a lot

00:42:48of really good uh people who come on who love football and want to call it the way they see

00:42:52it some

00:42:52people don't like what we're saying some people obviously are writing their own narrative but for

00:42:57the people who've followed us all through the year thank you so much because you're you know

00:43:01your football you like your football um and you know you like the people that we brought on board

00:43:07delighted that alex been with us as well and the journos has been well received um you know i look

00:43:13at

00:43:13some other platforms and and some other people uh i mean i it's stuck in my throat i've got to

00:43:18mention

00:43:18this by way or if it's stuck in my throat you know here's a line that that that came out

00:43:22and

00:43:22this is why it does my head and listening to other broadcasters some broadcasters who wear the colors

00:43:28of their team uh on the actual broadcast um who's had a dig at you i'll get him later um

00:43:33was uh you

00:43:34know the line that came out simon jordan's tweet what a shame for scottish football nothing exciting

00:43:41i knew about celtic winning the league everyone can go back to not caring about scottish football

00:43:46again i mean what does that tell you what does that tell you about the contempt he has for scottish

00:43:51football yeah if you don't want to talk about if you don't like it shut up shut up celtic have

00:43:56won

00:43:56the league you don't if you don't like the narrative of celtic winning the league shut up don't comment on

00:44:01the game yeah well i think i think everybody knows that not the majority of english people down in

00:44:06england don't think much about our game they don't think we're they think we're inferior you just

00:44:11have to get a scotland england game and see how much they think they're better than us but i mean

00:44:16and even when when teams are drawn together scotland teams they get club teams against english teams

00:44:21it's out there you know there's nothing we can do all we can do is try and produce the goods

00:44:26up here

00:44:27we don't want things like that happening at the weekend which obviously gives people stuff to jump

00:44:32upon but they have no knowledge they don't see scottish football they don't come up and watch it

00:44:37so i don't think they should have every right to to criticize it we're going to talk about rangers and

00:44:42we're going to talk about uh motherwell shortly um but uh here's a competition that uh sam and

00:44:48jordan might actually want to get involved in it's a chance to go and see scotland uh scotland against

00:44:53haiti scotland against morocco and then scotland brazil after that we'll throw we're throwing in

00:45:00flights yeah after three games we know we're all going back home ruffy we know where we are in

00:45:04life we know we're all going back home and he wonders why we don't want england to win in

00:45:08we've got 14 nights accommodation a thousand pounds spending money as well and you've got

00:45:15you through the first couple of days yeah absolutely i guess you two buttons to the ground

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00:46:13it was fantastic it was how it didn't win a bafta um or how it didn't win a uh a

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00:46:20podcast i just do not know ruffy it was absolutely that was brilliant ruffy sensational son but listen

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00:46:33also we'll

00:46:33announce uh congratulations to jay kelly who'll be going to the uh champions league final in budapest

00:46:39we've also got five runners up we'll be contacting them from our premium service who'll be getting

00:46:44a plz goodie bag as well ruffy with um on the gear thrown in there uh so that'll be up

00:46:51on our

00:46:52clothing as well clothing yeah absolutely brilliant wee gary o'connor joke thrown in there well done

00:46:57just can't get out of his after dinner mode can he he'll do anything for a turn

00:47:01i saw you all absolutely don't forget tam's got his own uh booking agent now are you going to

00:47:06increase your fee because you thought you went down the storm no no no i won't do that no good

00:47:09deal

00:47:10at ruffy yeah um okay um we've talked about it congratulations to uh celtic for winning the title

00:47:17and i think uh you know great commiserations first and foremost to derrick mckinnis and the rest of the

00:47:23team they made this season absolutely fantastic for all of us um and i think the hearts fans rightly uh

00:47:29gave them a huge round of applause coming back to time castle uh they've been absolutely brilliant

00:47:34congratulations to motherwell they defeated hibbs faddinger's strike gives them european

00:47:39football how good was that ruffy i think they deserve it for what they put in this year you

00:47:43know we've been talking about i'm i'm getting away from hibbs and hearts and rangers the celtic

00:47:47the two teams for me obviously motherwell and falkett this year i think they again have been a breath

00:47:52a fresh air you know motherwell particular obviously style of play and they've been a joy to watch and

00:47:58and when you get this far you want to see somebody like that not getting a wee taste at the

00:48:03end and

00:48:04european football is fantastic again for motherwell to be back in there yeah um they've restored my

00:48:10faith in the whole game i like you know the amount of times i was at third park watching and

00:48:14i'm thinking

00:48:15this is sensational what this guy's doing with players i know i know no and i don't mean to be

00:48:22disrespectful when you say like journeyman guys that went around the block the the brand the style

00:48:27and it must be so refreshing for for motherwell fans as well because with the greatest respect

00:48:32they've probably not seen this level of playing it for the back through the lines pace

00:48:37did you had you did you know about faddinger did you know well at what had you heard of you

00:48:41i had heard i'd obviously heard the one or two of them but i did it's not as if they're

00:48:45sitting on

00:48:46your radar they're on the radar now yes they're on the radar of the big clubs uh because of what

00:48:50they've done this season and i think that will be i think i think someone mentioned something a week

00:48:56or two ago and i thought that's a really interesting point because not only has he brought a brand of

00:49:00football he has now elevated motherwell in terms of assets because the place is littered you think about

00:49:08they started a season two where they are now if you go in there and try and nick one or

00:49:12two of their

00:49:13players then obviously you'd have to pay significant fees for them and that's not something that you've

00:49:18really put at motherwell the odd like you know your tumbles and yeah you get higdon moving you know

00:49:25i something like that where where you look at that and you go you know that's that's a like a

00:49:29once in

00:49:29a blue moon but i think that they're littered with guys that could go for a decent door brilliant to

00:49:34watch yeah they are indeed down to ten men they controlled the game you know and if you're a hip

00:49:38supporter watching that game you're thinking well we're pretty direct we get it

00:49:43ball wide they put balls in the box motherwell just toyed with them in the first half you know

00:49:46played really really well and the brand of play they deserve to finish fourth i think they've been

00:49:51a travesty if hibbs finished above motherwell i wanted them to finish above motherwell but

00:49:55in terms of the they're chalk and cheese the way they play yeah and they mother would deserve

00:49:59really finish fourth fall cut two rangers five chermiti gets a hat trick he ends up with 15 goals

00:50:05this season yeah one of them he scored was an absolute raker well do wasn't it yeah no listen i

00:50:10think

00:50:10listen to you throughout the course of this season i've looked at this boy and without

00:50:14doubt you can clearly see qualities and traits you go oof this boy's no bad the problem you have at

00:50:20rangers is that if you don't get between like 20 and 30 goals all of a sudden people are going

00:50:24nah not

00:50:25good enough but i can actually see progression this boy's just turned 21 as well so they've obviously

00:50:30invested a lot of money in him and there's speculation he might leave this summer i would like to see

00:50:36him

00:50:36another year at least uh to see if he can add on the numbers and be more of a focal

00:50:40point in the

00:50:41middle of the goals i think a lot of these games where he's got maybe a couple of hat tricks

00:50:45and

00:50:45things i'd like to see him more prolific over a longer period scoring a lot more and then that

00:50:51would result in a lot more a return at the end of the season before i get these two guys

00:50:55to comment on

00:50:56it and i'm not going to ask for the definitive answer because i think it would be difficult in your

00:51:00position as the assistant at partick thistle um which is basically is it the right move to keep

00:51:06danny roll are you surprised that andrew cavern has come out and said he's there he's a man no i'm

00:51:12actually pleased he has backed him pier and i'll tell you the reason why is if rangers continually go

00:51:16in every six months 10 months 15 months and they constantly chop and change you will never get any

00:51:22continuity and you need to give someone that that opportunity to try and get at least a couple of

00:51:27windows because at least then you can start getting your hallmarks now just reading some

00:51:31of the comments over the last week or so about leaders and things i i think that is you know

00:51:37people throw their words out and you often hear if you guys like myself ex-players bomber brown at

00:51:41half time a couple of weeks ago against motherwell and they talk about character and personality and

00:51:46mentality and all these things i think that danny roll's identified that they're not getting the

00:51:51the the characters required i think he's identified that pretty soon when he's winning that job he's

00:51:58he's notified his boss and kavanagh that they need to bring in more quality in terms of their leadership

00:52:05quality and because the way that they have fallen off the cliff and the split is alarming and if he's

00:52:12identified that then kavanagh's obviously gone he knows exactly what we need here yeah before he has

00:52:17to go to a new manager he has to find all that out before you know you're six months eight

00:52:20months down

00:52:21the line so he's probably giving them the benefit they do here and now they have to recruit players

00:52:26but the interesting thing about it is and i think it's been a learning curve for kavanagh and that

00:52:30as well over the course of the year it's okay going and getting your tumetes and thinking go you know

00:52:34what we'll pay eight for him and we'll try and nick 20 or whatever that looks like with various players

00:52:39at a certain age but you also have to buy quality at maybe 25 26 and i think Chelsea are

00:52:45very similar in

00:52:46terms of you need that balance you look at Celtic they've got you know you've got guys like Forrest

00:52:52McGregor you know Tierney so these guys will all be a good age where they can actually lead that

00:52:58dressing room and they will be the leadership group there and they've been over the course and

00:53:02distance so they need to try and get some more leaders within the dressing room and with that in

00:53:06mind just briefly massive clear out coming well again you obviously mentioned Celtic there but

00:53:12you've got all these lone players that will all go back and then obviously there'll be players that

00:53:16don't and by the way Peter don't forget you've got Sir Fuentes i think Davis is coming back there'll be

00:53:20other lone players coming back as well so they'll be trying to ship them on so it could be really

00:53:26upheaval at Ibrox yeah in the end do you think it's a good move to back

00:53:33Danny Roe yeah um do you think he's going to win the title no no no no i don't think

00:53:38he's a man for

00:53:39rangers Peter i know people will go you've got to give him an opportunity but i i don't know i

00:53:44don't

00:53:44know i've been pretty consistent over the last three four five weeks about Steven Gerrard i've seen him

00:53:50get interviewed by Ali McCoy the other day i think uh you know if he's still in the background i

00:53:55think

00:53:55he's still lingering in the background Peter and i think if if somebody says bye we're getting 25 30

00:53:59the moment he's been they're really getting back for rangers i think he would he would want to come

00:54:03back so you still think he's in the background i thought i still think Gerrard still still in the

00:54:08background to come back to rangers in the summer possibly ruffy manager says uh it needs a changed

00:54:17or revamped squad and a pre-season that's what the Andrew Cavanaugh said yeah i remember when the

00:54:23the new manager came in right at the very beginning and correct me if i'm wrong here he says bear

00:54:29i don't know what style we want to play i don't know what kind of players i've got i don't

00:54:34know

00:54:34what formation we're going to play but he said i can tell you right now i will find out the

00:54:39players

00:54:39we want should be here and the players that shouldn't be and i think in the wee run that

00:54:44he had he's justified that amount of uh to back him you know and i think obviously he's under a

00:54:52wee bit

00:54:52of pressure that people are leaving but i think you've got to give him a chance you've got to give

00:54:56him a

00:54:56chance and the the owners have got to back him as well you know to bring in a better quality

00:55:00so

00:55:00i think his remit when he came he's just a bit done it all obviously he failed we see before

00:55:06this

00:55:06this blip we were all thinking rangers could still do it

00:55:09my we're all thinking rangers could still so he was there he was there or there

00:55:13your fans hope from from nowhere of being a transitional season he suddenly transformed

00:55:19when there was no pressure on peter there was no pressure in danny roll when they came in

00:55:23they were third bottom fourth bottom in the league then when the pressure came many big games did they

00:55:27one but you know the thing is games when it mattered they couldn't win the big games see when

00:55:31see when they come in they actually made them very resolute they were the the best defensive record

00:55:35in the league alongside motherwell for for a long period and up until about six seven eight games

00:55:39ago they've actually conceded that was another two at the weekend and uh they were averaging about

00:55:442.5 per game for about the last five or six games yeah conceded yeah so all of a sudden

00:55:48they've

00:55:49went from being the meanest defense to being wide open

00:55:54yeah i just don't think he's a man i just think in terms of winning big games he's not done

00:55:58it

00:55:58you just think he's no the man because you think it's gerard no because i just don't it's no gerard

00:56:03i don't think it's danny roll i think he's not shown that they can win big games at rangers under

00:56:08pressure the only remit for danny roll when he when he signs the players that he wants in the summer

00:56:12ruffy it's just simple second is nowhere you've got to build a team that wins the league by the way

00:56:17it's

00:56:18not a team that's got to bed in win the league he'll know that he's a manager he's he's he's

00:56:24sampled

00:56:24what it is to be with a range of supporters they want to be winners they want to win every

00:56:28game

00:56:29so that he'll get the drift by now so he needs to build on it next year i've got to

00:56:33find in a few

00:56:34things quickly um you know when we've all bought a present as players and then some of the staff

00:56:39have bought presents there you are martin that's been great you've been absolutely brilliant and then

00:56:43martin boyle says oh no bye i'm staying for another year here's your presence back it's all about

00:56:47hey brilliant brilliant for martin hey why they turn damn why why they turn them i just think

00:56:52he's he's he's form over the last two or three months has been incredible and i think i don't

00:56:58think he was going to get another contract in january but i just think he's played that well

00:57:02and they've went maybe he's got an area in them maybe he's took less money i think he was on

00:57:06big

00:57:06money maybe they've came to an agreement with his wages but i think that's i think it's a good move

00:57:10for hubs to keep them well done to kelly neil mccann brilliant fantastic yeah i seen them two weeks

00:57:15go against st murran and then obviously they've scored again a barrel load at the weekend finley

00:57:19curtis is fascinating because i think i've seen them playing against uh ludigretz the thursday

00:57:25before he ended up joining and come on up and i couldn't believe they would let him go because for

00:57:30me he always looked a threat when he came on and his current form would most certainly be chapping on

00:57:35the door uh for the for the scotland trip over to america yeah conway is not going to be going

00:57:40we're hearing so somebody's got a no is it a winger or is that another striker i hope it's another

00:57:47striker that's going to jump out from somewhere but who would everybody would everybody have a choice

00:57:52at who is the number nine the new at this moment for scotland shankland shankland in the first game

00:57:57shankland yeah and they'll probably play dice i love two games when you've got a donkey what

00:58:02what's the other boy she adams she adams she adams uh dundee three aberdeen two uh somebody pointed

00:58:10out a word of this on social media stephen presley first point at ibrox in 23 years first home victory

00:58:16against celtic in 37 years first consecutive victory at tanadise in 27 years uh first club sheet a couple

00:58:23victory at tanadise in 25 years first victory at rugby park in five years first ever victory at

00:58:28rugby park in the scottish cup first victory at pataudry in 22 years the big man's doing well

00:58:33obviously he's obviously got a good he's got a good reception

00:58:41first time beating aberdeen back to back listen they're eight he's done well brilliant great uh

00:58:46again you must get a job roughy and i don't think you've ever imagined getting a job and people don't

00:58:50like you no yeah i think it was his own fault right at the beginning you know what he came

00:58:54out

00:58:55with but that's everybody individually their own their own thing but uh no no i think his brand of

00:59:02football as well and we all know he needed 10 12 players and he got them and some of them

00:59:06have been

00:59:07very very good yeah absolutely st mirne won dundee united won it was flat as a pancake i'm sure

00:59:13craig mcleish is just looking and thinking you know get this out of the way because the battle is

00:59:18ahead against your man yeah yeah it's a big decision for him you know they play his best

00:59:22players in case any get injured i don't know if anybody did but uh let's hope when the the

00:59:27playoff comes that uh there's no celebration on the park for the thistle supporters yeah

00:59:34this is this is this episode is getting replayed you just can't come on the show if it happens

00:59:39it's unbearable you know oh man liability he's some money to die yeah absolutely what about that

00:59:44alec he's driven liability 25 fans all going done that's all right we'll get the points back

00:59:50um but anyway i don't know young stanley said that last week he says um

00:59:53i saw the interview he's here he says oh well done and he says that's an important point here

00:59:58away from home it's the playoffs mate hey listen brilliant i i watched the game i thought tony

01:00:05walk made a big difference i have to say just as a wee footnote roughly before alec gives us his

01:00:10thoughts on the the playoff losing the keeper yeah i mean i'm sure alec would agree that somebody

01:00:16phoned him up and said right i want my goalie back you know before that game but he got on

01:00:21with it and

01:00:22obviously the boy didn't do the second goal in particular i think he could have done a wee bit

01:00:26better but i think that's the problem you have is peter see when you take players on loan yeah

01:00:30the other thing is we've obviously got a couple of guys who are in one from samirin who won't be

01:00:34available to us from you for the for the final playoff game so unfortunately that's just the the

01:00:41nature of the getting loan players you know they can claim them back are you underdogs oh god i

01:00:47the thing is you know you look at the you know st mirin they're obviously being a cup winners

01:00:53premier league team for a while now and um you know they're obviously the league cup winners as

01:00:57well so but listen the thing is we've we've already played them a few couple of months ago as well

01:01:02you

01:01:02know in the scottish cup which was a good game as well so listen we're all looking forward to it

01:01:06i

01:01:06think it's great i think at the start of the season if you'd have said listen you're going to get

01:01:10as far as we did that's 50 games down already mark was counting them the other day and so we've

01:01:15obviously got a couple more to contest what would it mean it'd be unbelievable okay it'd be brilliant

01:01:21peter do you know the actual thing do you know the thing is it's like the fan base has kind

01:01:26of

01:01:26grown along with us that was 8 000 i think it's the the most and i think it's a decade

01:01:31yeah you know so

01:01:32they are very much invested and we're trying to do and i'm led to believe that the stands are sold

01:01:38out

01:01:38already so it's going to be a good night on thursday as well you think you think you know a

01:01:42legend

01:01:42would maybe come back and support you guys for that who jonah don't don't you don't want me and him

01:01:46going no no no no no you used to man you used to stay away yeah you go to the

01:01:52races or something

01:01:52take him up the perth races yeah by the way can i tell you something you imagine those two went

01:02:01just invaded the pitch just to oh it's like liability yeah absolutely uh just a couple of things

01:02:06quickly before we finish then i'll give you the competition answer thank you to so many of you

01:02:10who have put on some uh really good comments about it all um we yeah and uh for those who

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01:02:32you still get time before the draw in the 24th west ham be careful what you wish for you want

01:02:36to play the west ham way i'll tell you what the west ham way is there's no go over the

01:02:40david moise

01:02:41and now you're going to get relegated yeah there's your west yeah yeah i think look at you

01:02:47moise invited him into the balls last month get it in before the end of the talent ever

01:02:51just say something to you right and i know it's i know it's unusual right but you're going to be

01:02:57able

01:02:58to answer this right you talk about you and mark wilson you know at the end of the day when

01:03:04i when

01:03:04i'm sitting here and people think oh alec and peter great friends you know you stick by your mates

01:03:09don't you yeah you do do you know what an interesting thing about it is see that darby next year

01:03:13if they

01:03:13do go down milwall west ham is up there being one of the best oh man honestly yeah oh sam

01:03:20i'm telling

01:03:21you it is mental yes absolutely even the build up the thing the atmosphere can i just say something to

01:03:27you

01:03:27if and i'm not in any way trying to belittle what happened and and you know we need a bit

01:03:33of humor

01:03:33in our life yes but if i was a player and the milwall fans were coming on for over exuberance

01:03:37i would be

01:03:38running off the park quickly going to the toilet because when they come on see the last time at the

01:03:45old den yeah he came streaming on by the way and i'm not exaggerating right so this guy's who's ripped

01:03:50my tap right office and i was like i take it right next minute the shots are getting whipped off

01:03:54and i'm

01:03:54holding my underpants right i went back down so that was 1993 i went back down about three years

01:04:01ago to play for a a benefit a benefit game and a guy come in and says can you sign

01:04:06that i said oh it

01:04:07looks kind of like the proper strip that had all the football league badge on yeah he went that was

01:04:11the one i got ripped off you with the old den and i went you i said that was that

01:04:15man so i ended up

01:04:16signing for me he'd kept it for something like god knows about 30 25 years or whatever it was should

01:04:20you have taken him out if you'd taken no no no this guy is there oh no no no no

01:04:24right so uh stick

01:04:26by your mates uh uh griezmann says farewell lewandowski says farewell as well i did and harry

01:04:32kane wins a bundesliga roughy harry kane can we not get him what did we what did we wind up

01:04:37with

01:04:38him about 50 goals 55 56 goals i think about 50 56 goals scored wow just unbelievable banged in

01:04:44another hat trick just towards the end yeah absolutely definitely definitely he's not

01:04:49no no no no's no number nine hey the body got a service for scotland anyway josier marino

01:04:58back at real madrid brilliant um he's just he's bogged up every time you think that he's just

01:05:03going to peter away because benfica then well madrid undefeated at benfica and by the way he'll sort

01:05:09he'll sort out

01:05:10your Mbappis

01:05:11and all that

01:05:12he'll empty

01:05:12we talk about

01:05:13managers

01:05:14walking through

01:05:15a door

01:05:15can you imagine

01:05:16him walking

01:05:16through the

01:05:17Dourier

01:05:17Madrid

01:05:17oh no

01:05:18he's got it

01:05:21Phil Marston

01:05:22Benfica

01:05:23unbeaten

01:05:23all the way

01:05:23through the season

01:05:24just before we go

01:05:25the answer to the quiz

01:05:27how many trophies

01:05:28has Jose Mourinho

01:05:29won

01:05:30do you say

01:05:30Ruffey

01:05:3010

01:05:31you said 10

01:05:32Ruffey

01:05:33the knowledge

01:05:34is unbelievable

01:05:35but it's not

01:05:36for you

01:05:38it's 3

01:05:42he just won

01:05:44three trophies

01:05:45in his first time

01:05:46so yeah

01:05:47he didn't win

01:05:48the Champions League

01:05:48remember he won

01:05:49the Champions League

01:05:50with Porto

01:05:50and Inter Milan

01:05:52he won the title

01:05:56I think it was

01:05:562011-2012

01:05:57against one of

01:05:58the best

01:05:59Barcelona sides

01:06:01of all time

01:06:02so great credit

01:06:04to him for that

01:06:04getting a title

01:06:05but that was the answer

01:06:06the other thing

01:06:07I was going to say

01:06:07to you

01:06:08as we finish off

01:06:08this Ruffey

01:06:09the shows continue

01:06:10because we're going

01:06:11to be back

01:06:11for the World Cup

01:06:12we're going to be

01:06:13doing programmes

01:06:13I'm going to be

01:06:14doing one-to-ones

01:06:15the Journals

01:06:16is on on Wednesday

01:06:16we've got lots

01:06:17of programming

01:06:18Tam's going to be

01:06:19with us through the summer

01:06:19obviously from your

01:06:20own point of view

01:06:21you've got another

01:06:21four holidays to take

01:06:22before we're back

01:06:23for the new season

01:06:25well I am going

01:06:26to Miami

01:06:27so I'll be able

01:06:28to help you out there

01:06:28yeah absolutely

01:06:29he's going to

01:06:30see his son

01:06:31so he's going to

01:06:32do a live

01:06:33he's going to

01:06:33a live

01:06:34you don't miss

01:06:34then you know

01:06:35you don't miss

01:06:35an opportunity

01:06:36cocktail to the beach

01:06:37you'll invoices

01:06:37for the four minutes

01:06:41you're sure I'm

01:06:42going to get it

01:06:43to work

01:06:43yeah

01:06:43the other thing

01:06:44just out of curiosity

01:06:46if you become

01:06:47a Premier League

01:06:48assistant coach

01:06:50how difficult is it

01:06:51for us to get you

01:06:52on the Monday

01:06:52an extra fiver

01:06:54we should cover it

01:06:54Peter

01:06:54yeah absolutely

01:06:55that's exactly

01:06:56you're my type of guy

01:06:57that's the type of thing

01:06:58no worries to

01:06:59Barry Hall

01:06:59if you're a seed

01:07:00a tenner

01:07:01I was about to

01:07:02push the same button

01:07:03that Bertie Hall

01:07:04pushed for Ruffy

01:07:05when he asked

01:07:06for an increase

01:07:06what did you ask

01:07:07for me Bertie Hall

01:07:08an extra fiver

01:07:09and they said

01:07:09do you know

01:07:10how many pies

01:07:11we'd have to sell

01:07:12to cover that

01:07:15I said I'm sorry

01:07:17I asked

01:07:18exactly

01:07:19anyway there's

01:07:20lots more

01:07:20competitions

01:07:21coming as well

01:07:21but lucky Tigers

01:07:23there

01:07:23and we've also

01:07:23got one

01:07:24where we're going

01:07:24to give you

01:07:24the chance

01:07:25to win yourself

01:07:25a painting

01:07:26of your favourite

01:07:27player

01:07:28courtesy of

01:07:28First Class Credit Union

01:07:30we're basically

01:07:31asking you to go

01:07:31onto our website

01:07:32you can go on

01:07:33there right now

01:07:34pick

01:07:34not the best player

01:07:35just the player

01:07:36you think

01:07:37should be

01:07:37in the top 50 players

01:07:38since the Premier League

01:07:40started in 1975

01:07:41you can put any player

01:07:42in or you can pick

01:07:43the best player

01:07:44and then we're going

01:07:45to pick out

01:07:46one lucky winner

01:07:47from all the entries

01:07:48and you can pick

01:07:49a painting

01:07:50of your favourite player

01:07:51and it's commissioned

01:07:52to Gio Thompson

01:07:53the sports artist

01:07:54it's been fantastic

01:07:55and I'll leave

01:07:56the last words

01:07:57to you Tam

01:07:57because

01:07:58quite simply

01:07:59everybody was wondering

01:08:01whether you'd have

01:08:02the boots

01:08:02the shinies

01:08:03the whole hearts

01:08:04strip on

01:08:04and you were willing

01:08:05to do it

01:08:05because Gary Locke

01:08:06and the whole hearts

01:08:07team

01:08:07I was getting it

01:08:09organised

01:08:10and I was going

01:08:10to sign it

01:08:11and donate it

01:08:11to charity

01:08:12just do it

01:08:15for a laugh

01:08:16no I'm not doing it

01:08:17come on

01:08:19if that's one

01:08:20next year

01:08:20I'll do it again

01:08:21there you go

01:08:21say one next year

01:08:22you'll do it again

01:08:23that's not bad

01:08:24the great Sandy

01:08:25Jardins said to me

01:08:27there's a game on it

01:08:28Ibrox

01:08:28for a noiser

01:08:29would you

01:08:31come along and play

01:08:32and it was Rangers

01:08:32home against

01:08:33Rangers away

01:08:34and McCoyston

01:08:35Walter Smith

01:08:36had the whole

01:08:37strip laid out

01:08:38with my name on it

01:08:39just under the

01:08:40photograph of the Queen

01:08:41with a note saying

01:08:42we've left it

01:08:43specially for you

01:08:45so Tam

01:08:46do you wear it?

01:08:47you still got it in there?

01:08:48I've still got it in there

01:08:50in the chattel

01:08:50in the festival

01:08:56it's below the

01:08:57confession box

01:08:59it's one of the

01:09:01it's one of the

01:09:02competitions

01:09:03for next year

01:09:03I'm giving it away

01:09:05I'm getting rid of

01:09:05everything

01:09:06anyway listen

01:09:07the banter's good

01:09:09if you are a football

01:09:10fan please come back

01:09:11all over the season

01:09:12there's lots of

01:09:12more shows going on

01:09:13this week

01:09:14and I'll be out there

01:09:15with the one to ones

01:09:16as well

01:09:16and we're going to be

01:09:17following

01:09:18good luck

01:09:18thank you I appreciate that

01:09:19we really hope that you

01:09:20do it

01:09:21no discredit to St Mirren

01:09:22but obviously we've got

01:09:23a bit of bias here

01:09:24we hope he does it

01:09:25thanks to Alec Ray

01:09:26brilliant for this season

01:09:27and hopefully

01:09:28we'll get him on

01:09:29through the summer

01:09:30and hopefully back

01:09:30with us next season

01:09:31Ruffy as ever

01:09:33season number 15

01:09:34Ruffy you'll be going into

01:09:35which is incredible

01:09:36I thought we were going to

01:09:36get rid of you

01:09:37after season 2

01:09:382 he was rotten

01:09:41I'm going to say

01:09:432 he was off

01:09:43decent

01:09:45I still have a memory

01:09:46in the second year

01:09:47where you were sitting

01:09:48in that pub

01:09:48going

01:09:49I'm not coming back

01:09:52yeah

01:09:52and a big hello

01:09:53to those people

01:09:54we're still here

01:09:5515 years

01:09:56incredible

01:09:57absolutely amazing

01:09:58Tam's with us

01:09:59what a sign

01:10:008th year

01:10:01and this is now

01:10:02eclipses my time at Hibs

01:10:04it's the longest

01:10:04I've ever been in one job

01:10:05and it's the longest time

01:10:06we've tried to fight off

01:10:07liquidation with him

01:10:08on board

01:10:09because every club

01:10:09he's went to

01:10:10Jonah

01:10:10yes he's a Jonah

01:10:12over and above that

01:10:13you've been absolutely

01:10:13fantastic Tam

01:10:14and now

01:10:15one of the finest

01:10:16and most expensive

01:10:17after dinner speakers

01:10:18on the circuit

01:10:19where does he go next

01:10:21where does he go next

01:10:23then the Apollo

01:10:25live at the Apollo

01:10:26smoke

01:10:26Tam walking out

01:10:28hey

01:10:29administration

01:10:30sacked

01:10:31that's the act

01:10:33in a nutshell

01:10:35I'm everybody here

01:10:36I hope you enjoyed the show

01:10:37thank you for listening

01:10:37thank you for watching

01:10:38thank you for listening

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