0:00:02 > 0:00:05As the manager of Scotland, one of the things that really pleases me
0:00:05 > 0:00:08is how desperate the players are to be involved
0:00:08 > 0:00:10and how they'll bust a gut to get here.
0:00:10 > 0:00:14Barry Robson and Gary Caldwell drove up earlier and...
0:00:14 > 0:00:15ENGINE APPROACHES
0:00:15 > 0:00:18Oh, I think this is Barry Bannan now.
0:00:18 > 0:00:19TYRES SCREECH
0:00:19 > 0:00:21HORN BLARES
0:00:38 > 0:00:42As the current manager of...
0:00:45 > 0:00:51..Aberdeen Football Club, it is my honour to turn the first sod
0:00:51 > 0:00:55on this site of the club's magnificent new stadium,
0:00:55 > 0:01:00which will acknowledge the club's history in its construction
0:01:00 > 0:01:03with the Big Eck Enclosure,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06the Strachan Stand
0:01:06 > 0:01:08and the Dougie Bell End.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Over now to Craig Whyte.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Good evening.
0:01:21 > 0:01:26Let me assure you, Rangers will not go to the wall.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Everything is fine. It's business as usual.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Securing your stuff, mate. Judge's orders. Take that.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35I'm not saying there aren't problems,
0:01:35 > 0:01:40but they're problems that CAN be and WILL be dealt with.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Rangers are absolutely on top of it all.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46We are going firmly in the right direction.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Rangers will be around for a long, long, long time to come.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Light bulbs too, there, mate.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Just to reiterate, uh, Rangers have a bright future.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00RUMBLE OF CROWD
0:02:14 > 0:02:17He is genius.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Oh, yes. I'd agree with that.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Fergie is Fergie.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Which is just as well,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27because, if he wasnae Fergie,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29he'd be somebody else.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34He is born of football, by football, for football.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Well, now, I think he's from Govan.
0:02:39 > 0:02:47Ruthless, uncompromising, vindictive, bullying, vicious,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50but, to be fair, he has his bad points, too.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Now, see nowadays,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58the players' jerseys are emblazoned with their nicknames.
0:02:58 > 0:03:04Now, this one here, this is worn by Javier Hernandez Balcazar, right?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Whereas, this one here,
0:03:06 > 0:03:10this one's worn by Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha, right?
0:03:10 > 0:03:13This one here, this one's Ryan Giggs.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21I've had my run-ins wi' Fergie, who hasnae?
0:03:21 > 0:03:25But at the end of the day, we respect each other.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Me him, and him me.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32But if, for any reason, we didnae respect each other,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35him me, or me him,
0:03:35 > 0:03:41then I still think we would respect our lack of respect for each other.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44And if that's no respect, then I don't know what is.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Arguments?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Aye, quite often we didnae see eye to eye.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Unless I stood on a box.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56You know, at, at Old Trafford, there are certain odours
0:03:56 > 0:04:00you don't get a whiff of at some other grounds.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Like this. It's Duraglit silver polish, right?
0:04:06 > 0:04:10You know, Arsene Wenger will be watching this,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13and he'll no have a scooby what this is.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17Ah, si, is possible. I work in Manchester for over a year now.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Top one, sound, mad for it.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Well, it can be scary place.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24So I ask my friend Sir Alex for advice
0:04:24 > 0:04:29on how to avoid the drugs, the alcohol and the violence.
0:04:29 > 0:04:34And he just say, "Give up the nights out with Liam Gallagher."
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Now, preparation is everything in this game, right?
0:04:38 > 0:04:44So before I enter the dugouts, I like to prepare properly, you know?
0:04:44 > 0:04:47So I'll have a few packets of them.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Cos they're my favourite. I like them.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52I'll have a few, I'll have a few juicy ones, that's marvellous,
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Yes. That'll keep me going.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59There's nae jub-jubs. Och, well, I'll take some of them.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01They're good. They'll keep my breath fresh.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04That's it. Well, that'll do me at half-time.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Mind games? Oh, aye.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Like, getting you to eat an onion,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14after telling you it was an apple.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Well, if you were to put him toe to toe
0:05:18 > 0:05:21with the late, great, Smokin' Joe Frazier,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Frazier would have destroyed him.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27But not before Alex had skelped his dish with a football boot.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Retirement? Christ, no.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Why would I want to retire when I still love the game?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Still have the taste for victory
0:05:38 > 0:05:40and the big purple nose for a good player?
0:05:40 > 0:05:45Sir Alex retiring would be such a loss to football.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46I don't want him to retire.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49I cannae wait.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Only An Excuse - the real Scottish football.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00I'm Gerard Butler,
0:06:00 > 0:06:04and I've been in more rotten films than any living actor.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07After a brilliant run-out with the Celtic lads for charity,
0:06:07 > 0:06:11I like nothing better than to splash my big, smug coupon
0:06:11 > 0:06:15with L'Oreal Poncey Face Lotion For Men.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Replenishes the moisture in your face
0:06:17 > 0:06:20by moisturising it with moisturiser.
0:06:20 > 0:06:26L'Oreal Poncey Face Lotion For Men, because I'm mur worth it.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30It'll change your fizzog quicker than I change my Paisley accent.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35So, why do the Green Brigade use so much Che Guevara iconography?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37But we don't.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39What about your t-shirt?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41What, that's Che Guevara?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46I thought it was Danny McGrain.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Right, mates, it's serious coupon time
0:06:49 > 0:06:52because the football world has been rocked tonight
0:06:52 > 0:06:56by allegations of unusual betting patterns.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00It's been claimed that - get this - players are deliberately
0:07:00 > 0:07:06trying to get themselves sent off to cash in on bets.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09The allegations come after police noted something odd
0:07:09 > 0:07:11in this piece of footage.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Have a look. See what you think.
0:07:16 > 0:07:21INAUDIBLE SPEECH
0:07:55 > 0:08:02- What do you make of that, mates? - Still looks inconclusive to me.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05As economic uncertainty continues throughout the country,
0:08:05 > 0:08:07nowhere is the pressure being felt more
0:08:07 > 0:08:10than within our treasured football clubs.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Even the capital is feeling the pinch,
0:08:12 > 0:08:15with two Edinburgh giants now beginning to experience pressure.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Our special correspondent, Jamie McIvor, sends us this report.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23Thanks, Auntie Jackie.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27As far as commitment to tackling social issues goes,
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Edinburgh is leading the way
0:08:29 > 0:08:33by providing more guests for the Jeremy Kyle Show
0:08:33 > 0:08:36than any other region in Britain.
0:08:36 > 0:08:43However, as far as football goes, the city is a capital in crisis.
0:08:44 > 0:08:51As far as Hearts go, the stark facts couldn't be more starkers.
0:08:51 > 0:08:56There will be no foreign white knight willing to invest in them
0:08:56 > 0:08:59or any other Scottish club.
0:08:59 > 0:09:05The club is facing a drastic cull as unsustainable wages need slashed,
0:09:05 > 0:09:10whilst putting the club into administration has been threatened
0:09:10 > 0:09:12by owner Vladimir Romanov.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18But what do the fans think?
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Em, excuse me, kind sir,
0:09:21 > 0:09:24would you like to say a few words about your team?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Oh, aye, I'm just a Jambo, eh, ken?
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Like, eh, wee Robbo and Big Elvis. Ken? Know what I mean?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Billy Brown, whit? Know what I mean?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32I'm just a Gorgie Gadge, eh? Ken?
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Thank you, kind sir. Er, now, be off with you.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42But what about the other half of the city, the Hibernians half?
0:09:42 > 0:09:45They haven't had their problems to seek either.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Eight managers in ten years, a new empty stand,
0:09:49 > 0:09:54and now Pat Nevin claiming to be a fan.
0:09:54 > 0:10:00So what do genuine supporters think about all that?
0:10:00 > 0:10:05I say, good man, pray tell me what thoughts you're currently thinking.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10Eh, cabs and rips, ken? Eh, Proclaimers, ken?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Eh, Mickey Weir, Franck Sauzee, Choose Life, ken?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- Aye, mm. - Are you taking the piss?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20With the future looking dreich and drizzly
0:10:20 > 0:10:24for the capital's giant mediocrities,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27just what will it take for the sunshine to return,
0:10:27 > 0:10:33not just to Leith, but to Gornagie, too, and get the fans excited?
0:10:33 > 0:10:37This is Jamie McIvor, Reporting Scotland.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47Help! Help! Auntie Jackie?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50This is my branch.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52This is my branch.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55THIS is my branch.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01The improvements are there for all to see.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05Back in 2004, in the bad old Berti Vogts days,
0:11:05 > 0:11:09we played eight, got 14 points and finished second.
0:11:09 > 0:11:15Now, we can play eight games, get 11 points and finish third.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18It's all about progress.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22OK, we've missed on qualification for a major tournament again,
0:11:22 > 0:11:23seven in a row.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28But I'm confident we'll get to the World Cup in Brazil.
0:11:28 > 0:11:34So, join me and start learning the lingo!
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Ola.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Hello.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Meu nome e Craig.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43My name is Craig.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47SHE SPEAKS IN PORTUGUESE
0:11:47 > 0:11:51I'm picking the one lone striker.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55SHE SPEAKS IN PORTUGUESE
0:11:55 > 0:11:59I've no idea what that means.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04Mambo, salsa, samba.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Heel, toe and away we go! One, two, three, together.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11SHE SPEAKS IN PORTUGUESE
0:12:11 > 0:12:15If Steven Fletcher phones, I'm no in.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Ate logo.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Cheery-bye the noo!
0:12:20 > 0:12:24If you'd like to see that STV programme again on the STV Player,
0:12:24 > 0:12:26simply click the STV Player at
0:12:26 > 0:12:30STV slash player dot STVplayer slash dot player dot
0:12:30 > 0:12:33slash dot STV dot player dot slash dot STV.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36And to win tonight's competition,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38simply answer the following question:
0:12:47 > 0:12:54- You could win a cash prize of £1.25. - All calls cost £1.30.
0:12:54 > 0:13:00Italy, Greece, Ireland, and, finally, Rangers.
0:13:00 > 0:13:06Ladies and gentlemen, that completes the draw for the European bail-out.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Well, for Rangers, it's the perfect combination.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12We play in blue, I'm Whyte, and we're in the red.
0:13:21 > 0:13:28Scotland has a proud history of pioneering explorers.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31And to truly appreciate the trailblazing spirit
0:13:31 > 0:13:36of these bold men, we need a pioneering TV presenter
0:13:36 > 0:13:40not afraid to stick with a Bon Jovi hairstyle.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44A man who can talk while walking up stairs,
0:13:44 > 0:13:50and while walking down them as well.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54When these brave missionaries
0:13:54 > 0:13:59took their first tentative steps into worlds unknown,
0:13:59 > 0:14:03not only did they take with them Christianity and disease,
0:14:03 > 0:14:06they also took with them football.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08And no-one carried forth the torch
0:14:08 > 0:14:11that illuminated the beautiful game more so
0:14:11 > 0:14:17than the only Scotsman to be named European Footballer of the Year.
0:14:17 > 0:14:22The King, The Lawman, Denis Law.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26Well, you know, I was born in Aberdeen, you know?
0:14:26 > 0:14:30But I overcame that hurdle and I ended up in Italy, you know?
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Playing for Torino.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Now, if Edinburgh is Scotland's Roma,
0:14:36 > 0:14:40then Torino is Italy's Cumbernauld.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44It really... Aw, I tell you, it's a toilet, you know?
0:14:44 > 0:14:46"Il Bagno."
0:14:46 > 0:14:49But that's where I mastered football, you know?
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Calcio, you know?
0:14:50 > 0:14:55Me, the Lawman. "Il Legge Homo."
0:14:55 > 0:14:59And let me tell you, no, really, I loved the good life.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01I really did, you know?
0:15:01 > 0:15:03La Dolce Vita, The Good Life.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Oh yeah, I mean, what a sitcom that was, you know?
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Margo in her wellies, oh, it's hilarious.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16In post-Renaissance Italy, Law was a sensation.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19When I went to Italy, I was on a mission to...
0:15:19 > 0:15:22To explore strange new worlds, you know?
0:15:22 > 0:15:25To seek out new life forms and civilisations,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28to boldly go where no man had gone before.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31And I tell you, Captain Kirk, what a player he was.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33He was marvellous.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36You know, the Italians, they love their heroes.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39They really do. Whether it's me, or Zeus,
0:15:39 > 0:15:44or Berlusconi or the Fuzzy Felt pasta chef, eh?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Eh? When's your Dolmio Day?
0:15:47 > 0:15:52These days of glory were all too brief for The Mongoose,
0:15:52 > 0:15:56who eventually returned, not to his native Scotia,
0:15:56 > 0:16:02but to the land of the English and other trails yet to be blazed.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06But, for that one fleeting age,
0:16:06 > 0:16:13he shone like the Sun King and ruled the game like a colossal Caesar.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18I came, I saw, I conked out.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Next week on The Football Explorers,
0:16:25 > 0:16:29we look at this - the world's oldest surviving football,
0:16:29 > 0:16:32found inside a wall in Stirling Castle
0:16:32 > 0:16:35and believed to date back to 1540,
0:16:35 > 0:16:42the last time local team Stirling Albion got a decent result.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Only An Excuse - the real Scottish football.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Heh, heh, heh!
0:16:54 > 0:16:59Yes, this is me, Chick Young, saying I am totally, definitely,
0:16:59 > 0:17:06absolutely, 100% against fielding a British team at the Olympics.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10The whole thing threatens our independence as a football nation
0:17:10 > 0:17:13and it... What? What?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Have I seen the strip?
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Well, no, actually, I haven't. But what's that got to do wae it?
0:17:21 > 0:17:27As I was saying, Team GB, what a magnificent idea!
0:17:27 > 0:17:30I'm definitely behind it!
0:17:33 > 0:17:39Welcome to the draw for the first round of the Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43A competition, let me remind you, funded by the seized assets of major criminals.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Gentlemen, if you'd like to begin.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I cannae get in here.
0:18:00 > 0:18:05Speaking as a prominent media figure,
0:18:05 > 0:18:10I, too, was hounded by journalists and hacks.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Which was daft, really, cos if they wanted to know what I was up to,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17all they needed tae dae was ask.
0:18:17 > 0:18:27However, there was one time that the antics of the press sickened me.
0:18:27 > 0:18:33One night, I was engaged in a three-in-a-bed romp
0:18:33 > 0:18:40of the sexual variety, wae a pair of dirty big darlin's, you know?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Oh, honeys.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Pure Joe McBrides, by the way.
0:18:45 > 0:18:53And then this tabloid rag published all the lurid, sleazy details
0:18:53 > 0:18:58of the coital naughtiness on page seven!
0:18:58 > 0:19:00And I was pure beelin' at that
0:19:00 > 0:19:03because it should have been on page one!
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Thank yous.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Thank you, your lordships.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Oh, and your ladyships, too.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Gies a wee tinkle, eh?
0:19:20 > 0:19:25See that bumble bee yella-black-third-away-strip thing?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27See when the Cel'ic wear that?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30They just look stupit!
0:19:30 > 0:19:32And that's no on.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36It's no the job of Cel'ic players to look stupit.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40No, no, it's the job of Cel'ic fans to look stupit.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44That's why I'm 58-year-old and dressed like a leprechaun.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49Neil, can you explain the loss of form with some players?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52No, I can't. I mean, take Kris Commons.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54All I know is that, over the close season,
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Kris went from being a player we couldn't afford to lose,
0:19:58 > 0:20:01to a player we couldn't afford to feed.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06You're watching Sky Sports News.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Carling Cup latest,
0:20:10 > 0:20:14as Northampton Town get set to take on AFC Bournemouth.
0:20:16 > 0:20:21There's a big night of action for The Cherries...
0:20:21 > 0:20:23who are unbeaten in four.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29So, the League One outfit
0:20:29 > 0:20:32are brimming with confidence
0:20:32 > 0:20:34for the visit of the Cobblers.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38What about that, mates? Eh?
0:20:38 > 0:20:43And not forgetting the big Scottish Communities Cup tie in...
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Sorry, mates. It's too much.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00A dark, Ibrox Stadium-shaped cloud is hanging over me,
0:21:00 > 0:21:05because of one wee documentary concerning Rangers supremo
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Mr Craig Whyte.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11A documentary which has resulted in a bitter divorce
0:21:11 > 0:21:15between the totally sensational, utterly astonishing,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18monumentally magnificent, righteously dignified
0:21:18 > 0:21:26Glasgow Rangers Football Club FC and the so-called BBC.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30And, as an employee of said organisation,
0:21:30 > 0:21:35I, Charles Young, am forbidden from talking to Rangers.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38And so, it seemed, would end a glorious era
0:21:38 > 0:21:42of dispassionate, neutral reportage.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46I had two choices. One, accept the current situation,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50or, two, rebuild BBC Scotland's relationship
0:21:50 > 0:21:54with the country's greatest institution.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58Denied of my right to slabber over the mighty Rangers,
0:21:58 > 0:21:59it was a no-brainer.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02I started my own personal sooking up,
0:22:02 > 0:22:06with a measured apology to Craig Whyte.
0:22:06 > 0:22:13"Dear Mr Whyte, please, please, PLEASE do not do this to me.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18"A BBC bias against Rangers?! How can you say that?
0:22:18 > 0:22:23"Given the 150 ex-Rangers players employed on Sportsound alone,
0:22:23 > 0:22:28"I beg you, see reason.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31"Yours loyally, Chico."
0:22:31 > 0:22:36I realised I couldn't just sit by and wait for a response.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38I had to take assertive action.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42You're daeing a great job, Ally. Keep it up.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Aye, shooperb.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Hey, Ally, four in a row?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Yeah, shenshational.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Alistair, a quick word?
0:22:54 > 0:22:58Ah, sorry, Chick, most un-shooperb.
0:22:58 > 0:23:04That was shoddy and shady. Shtay away from my players.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07'A super snub from Super Ally.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10'And other interviewees were even less forthcoming.'
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Why are you victimising Rangers?
0:23:12 > 0:23:17I was still having no joy getting inside the club,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20although representatives from the old guard agreed to speak to me.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Former Chief Executive Martin Bain.
0:23:24 > 0:23:30Well, we tried every feasible source to raise income for the club.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Guising, collecting ginger bottles, we even sent a begging letter
0:23:34 > 0:23:38to that couple from Largs who won the lottery.
0:23:38 > 0:23:39No-one wants to know.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42So what could Rangers be looking at?
0:23:42 > 0:23:46Administration, liquidation, sequestration?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Well, it certainly isn't constipation.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Aw, that's no funny.
0:23:50 > 0:23:55This was a far cry from the grand old days of yore.
0:23:55 > 0:24:00The days of King Walter, the days of nine in a row.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04And, let me tell you, the ordinary fan was not happy.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09If the unthinkable happens, and the Rangers do go to the wall,
0:24:09 > 0:24:15then I and my associates will guard that wall.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18You know what I'm saying?
0:24:18 > 0:24:23It was starting to seem that I'd run out of aces.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27I'd rolled the dice and landed on a busted flush.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32I tried to establish contact between his people and my people,
0:24:32 > 0:24:37via The People, but to no avail.
0:24:37 > 0:24:42Then, out of the true blue, I received a summons.
0:24:42 > 0:24:47Craig Whyte has agreed to see me, but there are to be no cameras,
0:24:47 > 0:24:52no recording devices, no pens and no notepads.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55I'll let you know how I get on.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Cheers, brother.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08I've just spent three hours with the man himself.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12And in that three hours, he spoke to me of his dreams, his hopes,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16his desires for the club that is the glorious Glasgow Rangers.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18And of his visionary business plan
0:25:18 > 0:25:21that he believes will make this club even stronger than it is now.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24And having now met the man and listened to him,
0:25:24 > 0:25:26all I can say is...
0:25:28 > 0:25:31..we're (BLEEP)ed.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Only An Excuse - the real Scottish football.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Whit? As far as our singing goes?
0:25:46 > 0:25:51Listen, some people say we are intransigent and refuse to change.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53But I tell you, that's no true.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58There are many songs we don't sing at Celtic Park anymair,
0:25:58 > 0:26:04like We've Won the League Again, Easy! Easy!
0:26:04 > 0:26:08and We Are The Champions.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11When I hear the name, I think he is legend,
0:26:11 > 0:26:15especially when working with hot young talent.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18So I salute you, Silvio Berlusconi.
0:26:18 > 0:26:23The chaos caused by the mass strike has affected Scottish football.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26The Aberdeen first team were forced to take their children
0:26:26 > 0:26:28to training with them.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32Get this - the kids won 4-1.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37And there was some good-natured micky-taking
0:26:37 > 0:26:38at Celtic's training ground today,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41when Kris Commons responded to rumours
0:26:41 > 0:26:45of a fall-out between himself and his manager Neil Lennon.
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