Presume the forum will be supporting our representatives from these islands?
100,000 Rangers fans have made the trip. Incredible support.
Going to be some occasion tonight.
Some great videos emerging from Seville and surrounds where supporters have gathered and it seems like a true carnival atmosphere.
This is what football is all about.
This is beautiful. This is what the great game means to people. Football is the most important of the unimportant things in life.
Hopefully most going will be like this bloke, but just with the sheer numbers going, something will kick off. GVB was right. You can bring 50 people and they could cause trouble. Cheap beer, and lots of alcoholics, German and Scots. What could go wrong!
Enough about the Down football team.
A game of this stature deserves a dedicated thread of its own. Particularly with such interest in the League of Scotland amongst a sizeable cohort of the forum.
Without question. The eyes of Europe and the world will be on Seville tonight. Scottish club football is suddenly taken seriously again across the continent and thatās all down to Rangers.
Whatā the position for Scotland in the European Cup next season if the Gers win tonight. Do Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers both go in at the group stage, and if so what seeding?
I donāt take much interest in UEFA coefficients so perhaps one of the posters who does could oblige? I have heard that Celtic will gain automatic entry to the group stages of the Champions League next season as a result of the Teddy Bearsā European exploits but open to correction on that.
I think in a general sense there are two points: i) Rangers even reaching this stage is a huge boost to the Scottish club game as a whole - a rising tide lifts all boats as they say, and ii) the champions of the Europa League deserve an automatic place in the Champions League as a first seeded team.
This is disappointing. The Eintracht Frankfurt fans seem like a nasty bunch intent on causing trouble.
The best answer to this is for Rangers to beat them on the pitch.
Andy Mitten said on the United We Stand podcast that he was standing waiting to see 10,000 out of the 35,000 march to Camp Nou for the Barcelona game. He seen a Spanish man taking pictures of them innocent enough fair. About 5 of the Eintracht ultras set upon him. According to Mitten, the Spaniard held his own.
Quite a few of the German clubs would have a very nasty hooligan element.
Is the family friendly image of the Bundesliga merely a chimera?
A good twitter account to follow for all purveyors of League of Scotland action, CD. A summary in the above thread.
I brought my boys to an outing this morning in Center Parcs called the Teddy Bears picnic. I view this as a good omen for later, as Iād booked it online months ago when plotting activities for our few days here. Some wonderful scenes from Seville now, with the Teddy Bears similarly enjoying themselves in the build up to later.
Heās a hun so would take with a shovel of salt
Colin Millar doesnāt sound like a German name.
The Huns were a nomadic tribe from Mongolia. I donāt really follow whatever point it is youāre making.
Walter Smithās greatest triumph was his careful curation of the tradition and then handing it on to the capable hands of the younger generations.
What a legacy.
He would be so proud today.
Hereās why Iām supporting the Germans
+1 a great bunch.