OGC Nice 1-4 Rangers: immediate post-match reaction

[@ja-ks8dh]

This content for me is a necessity every week. Alec, please never apologise for a 90 minute pod. We need it. PC's European record is incredible, there's no other word for it. I have a feeling that on Dec 15, the big man, the players, the club and the fans MUST get the win to help kick start the season. I would take the worst game of football ever witnessed to homosapian man, a deflected scuffler, trickling into the net for a 1-0 win and give PC some breathing space and time to get this big blue rolls Royce.....rolling again.

[@FatEck1999]

Many thanks, my friend. Very kind of you. And I appreciate you taking the time. Yes, I would absolutely love it if we could get a result on the 15th and, to be honest, I was pleased we got this extra chance before the next league meeting for Clement to stop his Old Firm rot. Penalties against nine men - yup - I'd take it any old way we can get it too because, as you rightly say, he just needs to get that monkey off his back before he has any chance of winning over the entire support. He's become so good away in Europe that it's not just being taken for granted - it's being disregarded. I can't help thinking that when he gets that first OF win, he won't be able to stop beating them. Yet he won't get many more chances at that first derby victory.

[@andyhillis7158]

Manifique Sir! 👍🤣 Just catching up with your glorious upbeat summary tonight! Delighted for my two boys and I to witness such a wonderful performance and result in person! A phenomenal night for the Teddy Bears and our wonderful fans! Delighted too for the manager and players as the pressure on them was enormous. Keep up the superb mad scribblings and garrulous summaries! Looking forward already to the next pre-match rambling! 💙🇬🇧

[@FatEck1999]

@@andyhillis7158 bonjour, Andy, merci buckets for checking out the pod again, Mon Ami and thanks to you and your lads for representin on Thursday - Ibroxonia was coming across loud and clear from kick-off. Abd just got louder as the game went on. So glad you got due reward for making that trip. I just hope you didn't experience the maltreatment by the gendarmes. Aye. I was so happy for Big Phil and his garçons too - sensational response to last Saturday - that I'm hoping harder than ever for a result at McDiarmid tomoz to augment the turnaround.🇬🇧🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙👍

[@jamesmccallum1794]

Loved it, loved it, loved it Eck. Your chat and the game last night skipping and jumping me into the weekend singing Simple the best eating cake and a bottle of bru. With you all the way and PC, excited for Sunday, can’t wait. We can see the future the fast food fans can’t. We are the seers.

[@kianmcclure9528]

I’m 7 mins in. You are thinking and speaking so clearly. Insight. Long form journalism. You JD Salinger in disguise?

[@FatEck1999]

@@kianmcclure9528 😆😅 that's me, Kian. No roaming in the gloaming from me - all catching in the rye. It always goes full circle back to Ayrshire. And thanks for not posting that after 8 minutes you fell asleep. Appreciated, mate😆😉🫡

[@kianmcclure9528]

@ it’s a Rabbie Burns inspired title so fitting you would bring it back to Ayrshire.

[@scottanderson3347]

From Hemingway to Chas and Dave with a another amazing European result stuffed in the middle what more do we need from a Rangers podcast 😂 thanks as always Alex

[@FatEck1999]

No, thank YOU, Scott - very kind, sir. Thanks for taking the (considerable) time to watch my prattle but, as always, I blame it on the Teds: What a performance, what a result - what a nice change from last Saturday.

[@gilroy8011]

I never switch you off Alec. Absolutely brilliant.

[@FatEck1999]

Cheers, Gil.Thanks for taking the time to watch/listen again. I just hope my one other viewer did likewise... 😄😉Much appreciated, Sir.💙👍

[@stavrosbrainstorm3509]

Nice job man, like your style ❤🇬🇧

[@FatEck1999]

Appreciated, Stavros.👍

[@colincameron3885]

Great Alex, we did it! well done Rangers from the fans to the players to the management. The all blue strip strikes again. Coincidence becomes correlation then it’s about belief we can do it. Let’s hope for another great win on Sunday, 3pts is a minimum 🔴⚪️🔵

[@FatEck1999]

"Coincidence becomes correlation" - that's poetry, Colin. Loving it,sir - definitely stealing that one. And, yes, the all-blue is poetry in motion again. I'm yakking on about Milan's famous European kit but we've got one of our own and it's racking up some great results. One of the best in our history last night. And you're spot-on about Sunday. Had to laugh at Big Phil talking about "credit in the bank" last Saturday. Walter bloody Smith barely had any credit in the banks whenever his Rangers slipped up so, with one domestic away win all season, Philippe, just you get your overdraft extended and win, win, win in Perth.💪👍💙

[@wboyle9721]

Always love your rabbles alex got me thinking who was the 4th man on the moon 😅😅😅

[@FatEck1999]

😱😱This is too much of a coincidence! Fourth man on the moon? Have you heard me telling that story before, mate? Have I told you about the time-out team talk we got from Mr Meney, my physics teacher and assistant-coach of the school volleyball team? Were you in that Volleyball team? Did you go to Ardrossan Academy in the early-mid 80s? ARE YOU THE GHOST OF ALAN BEAN??!! (😉😆😆 Many thanks for taking the time to watch my nonsense, mate)

[@wboyle9721]

@FatEck1999 I can't be transparent that I am a ghost hated volleyball was too busy studying gravity as I am a decendant of issac newton mearns an apple fell on my head never been the same since 😆 🤣 😂 best eck

[@FatEck1999]

​@@wboyle9721​😂😂 we were struggling in a game and Mr Meney had his inspirational team talk all ready. Determined to show us that nobody ever remembers runners-up, he pulled us into the huddle and asked this bunch of 14 year olds, "Boys, who was the SECOND man on the moon?" As one, we all replied, "Buzz Aldrin" His face drops, he shouts " Oh right so the one time I DON'T want you to know the answer to a physics-related question is the one time you know it?", told us we were playing shite and we went back on court feeling so clever that we won.

[@Albertlindie]

In my 68 years on this planet, I've never read Hemingway, but boy, am I glad my mate Colin Cameron introduced me to your podcast. Simply the best, Alex. Can't wait for the next one.

[@FatEck1999]

He's on a bonus, Albert - Cameron gets a hundred quid for every new customer he sends my way. make sure you get your split, off him!😉😄 Very good of you to check it out, my friend. Very much appreciated. Aye, he's some man, Colin isn't he - absolute diamond and I've been stealing his patter for years now. Great thing about Hemingway is so much of his message is "between the lines" or "below the surface" it means most of his books are all relatively short, which suits a slow coach like me. Can highly recommend Fiesta and A Farewell to Arms but his short story collections - especially Men Without Women and The Snows of Kilimanjaro - are exceptional. But, 68 years? Are you telling me you were born the very year Rangers first stepped into the European arena, with a game against a certain OGC Nice? I only ask coz I spend a lot of time talking about stuff "I've waited my whole life for" so it's nice to know one bluenose last night got something they'd literally waited their whole life for👌💙

[@Albertlindie]

I think I will struggle to get that split from Colin 😂. Your spot on Alex....born in the east end of Glasgow in June 1956. I retired a couple of years ago after 40 years in the oil industry......so I have plenty of time to go look for your Hemingway recommendations.

[@malcolmmartin3206]

Revenge best served cold, sixty eight years a mere blink in the history of Rangers. With you all the way on Clement. Not so Hemingway.

[@FatEck1999]

@@malcolmmartin3206 Aye, that dish would certainly be cold after all that time, Malcolm. Smelled bloody delicious to us though, eh. Papa Hemingway a git of a man but I do enjoy his stuff, while getting it's not to everyone's taste. Here's hoping Clement soon has everyone in blue loving his work.

[@kurtyboy01]

Yes Listening to Alex will set me up nicely before work #MonTheRangers played excellent last night Raskin MOTM in my opinion , Philip (London)

[@FatEck1999]

Thanks, Philip .Hey I hope it doesn't send you to sleep again, mate - I just listened back and I am definitely slower than usual in this one. I think it's just basking in the afterglow of such a momentous result. At the opposite end of the scale, as you say, Wee Nico last night - ooft! If anything he was even better than he was in Piraeus. Phenomenal. Great choice as MOTM, mate. Hope your work flies in!

[@grahamkeltie3421]

excellent as always, Alex. I totally agree re Clement. Would be a huge mistake not to back him until at least the end of the season.

[@FatEck1999]

Thanks, Graham. Aye, I would agree. If nothing else, it's at least a change of routine😃

God Bless the Rangers and another great pod from Eck, all is right with The World. 🫡🤩🇬🇧

[@FatEck1999]

💪💪Go on, you beautiful Teddy Bears💙💙 Thanks so much for watching again, Pete and, yes, what a difference it makes to life when we get a performance like that from Rangers. Two whole days of feeling relaxed. Hope you enjoy it as much as I intend to, mate!

aye we are on top off the world again hope we beat the Saints mate, yes we will enjoy it Eck, wish Rangers were not so stressful :)

[@FatEck1999]

And it's always a good sign when we get trolls from other clubs on here getting abusive towards me - shows they're jealous and starting to fear the auld Teds again - but I'll not have them being cheeky to my pals so that's that clown barred, Pete. Sorry about that, mate. But you're spot-on. Life is beautiful. For two whole days anyway😁😆🫡

Eck thank you for that there is always people jealous of Rangers success, I never bit back at him because just becomes tit for tat, I am used to the abuse being a Rangers fan when I leave a comment but never on here, thank you for having my back pal :)

[@craigsmith6026]

Chuckled at the acting at the start. The Rangers online fan representing the current general consenus on the result. The smiling, head shaking and subtle accent change. Hyndland rather than Anniesland. Genius

[@FatEck1999]

Much obliged, Craig - to you and anyone else watching any of this video. Watched bits back this morning and I'm clearly on the Rangers podding equivalent of taking a whitey - absolutely spaced! The cold sobriety of the domestic fare means suddenly consuming an overwhelming amount of Rangers positivity in European away games is more than my system can cope with. Blissed out!

[@georgereid4528]

Brilliant Chas and Dave rendition Alec..but sadly not quite as impressive as our lads in France ..pity poor St Johnstone on Sunday...don't we ? Super pod sir .

[@FatEck1999]

Many thanks for taking the time, George. Aye, even my gorgeous singing voice - the voice of an angel with laryngitis - couldn't hold a candle to the beauty of that performance in France. Just hope Perth doesn't throw up something more comparable with my dulcet. We've turned the corner now. I'm as sure of it as you are😬😬😀🫡

[@shantydoctor]

a filthy wee 3 points given how things are ...😂👏🏼💙🇳🇿

[@FatEck1999]

Laaahved it, Shanty - absolutely loved it, mate. Much needed blast of sunshine amid the grimey winter of our domestic situation.

[@bigphil6082]

Igamane reminds me of Alfie. We certainly capitalized on Nice's errors. One of these games where everyone played well.

[@FatEck1999]

Spot-on as always, BP - the fallout from Saturday's draw with United would have you believe the best we could have got from a poor Nice performance last night was a goalless draw. But we clearly had a game-plan and, moreover, the scent of blood.The sequence of play between our first two goals is gorgeous - mercilessly going for the jugular.

[@bigphil6082]

@@FatEck1999 Having an effective centre forward makes a huge difference. Involved in the play and able to finish.

[@FatEck1999]

@@bigphil6082 C'est arrive. Now all we need is Cortes back wide left and the plan is complete (ish) - maybe Jefte or Yilmaz will let Bajrami slip inside to ten and then Dio becomes the new Hemdani - brilliantly effective but only in a job solely available in European games.

[@_M_1_]

Thanks ‘Eck … great post & great performance from Clement’s Rangers ❤️🤍💙

[@FatEck1999]

Appreciated again, my friend 👍

[@brendanmckenna8126]

Eck , another really enjoyable podcast ( from a Hemingway going in reverse but would mean Congregationalism/ Calvinism terminus & they aren't notoriously pro Judaism either ). Anyway to the Fitba ' - great background knowledge & history of the earlier clash in ' 56 which was year I was born. Question? Are they in fact superior quality players but buckle under the demands and intensity of an Ibrox but the entitlement/expectations as an Institution of almost part of the fabric of a Scottish nation. Celtic suffer similar but probably less so as their antecedents are external & sort of transcend their immediate environment. Volleyball , eh. Mines were Rugby & played top private schools plus Irish Dancing ( Phwoar the wummin ' ).

[@FatEck1999]

Thanks, Brendan. No, it's more a case of if Hemingway was "converting" to anything christian he was obviously taking the Jesus stuff seriously and when folk start doing that at anytime over the last two thousand years, the Jews are often right to be nervous. Anyway, like I said in qualifying my ramble, open and casual antisemitism was a part of life among the set he's portraying so brutally honestly in that book, set a decade before the Nuremberg Laws came into force. Thank "god" there's none of that now, eh😮 Celtic are the establishment club now if there ever was such a thing and the number of foreign players in each club over the last thirty years has reduced all "external forces" to whether or not they have the football ability and the mindset to handle a big crowd, irrespective of what singular characteristics you or I want to imagine onto that crowd. Virtually every player at either OF club this century would be the same player at the other half. But you and I can still enjoy suspending the disbelief. I played rugby for our school once. Full back. But I'm not quick. And I let it bounce, thinking ,"ach, it'll bobble up to me eventually"... Dancing with Irish girls was much more enjoyable.

[@SkyeSeafoodandeatit]

We struggle in a poor league against poor opposition and we do better in against decent opposition it's a no brainer

[@FatEck1999]

@@SkyeSeafoodandeatit aye, it's definitely now an established fact that we're great away in Europe and terrible away domestically. Hopefully start changing the domestic fortunes on Sunday.

[@amaffmaheidschannel-rc6re]

Good video mate 🇬🇧🔴⚪️🔵

[@FatEck1999]

@@amaffmaheidschannel-rc6re cheers, my friend. Thanks for giving it your time 👍

[@thetryingscotsman4065]

I prefer Heat rather than Hemingway 🤣

[@FatEck1999]

That's two of us, mate - and I love Hemingway. But he's binned. No more Hemo - just Heato.The audience must get what it wants and if that happens to coincide with my desire to watch films rather than read books, SO BE IT!!😉💙💪

[@BillyMcMorran]

Where is all the Celtic fans? 😂😊

[@desmtb]

Rangers were great but Nice were woeful!

[@FatEck1999]

Dundee United had one shot on target last Saturday and we dropped points to them. Nice had way more than that last night but we stuff them.

[@robbiegraham9359]

Weirdo opinions aye 😂 bsck to same shite sunday🙄

[@FatEck1999]

😄It's got to the stage, Robbie where the most weirdo thing will be if we either lose at Old Trafford OR win in Perth! How TF did this happen?? If we're 3-0 up at half-time on Sunday I'll be changing channels - smacking the remote control, stand-up style, shouting "is this thing on?? Am I watching the Chelsea game or something??"

[@robbiegraham9359]

@FatEck1999 would not put anything past this team. So bloody wasteful at times