There were no holds barred as the
Marquess of Queensberry rules were thrown out the window and Gilmour revealed what's gone on behind the scenes ever since the day Green turned up to see St Mirren play Celtic and launched the suspicion that plans for league reconstruction might be the victim of foul play.
In today's wars, it's the Army that has suffered most from lack of funding because of the brutal physical and psychological nature of desert and mountain warfare, where death is a constant companion and facing a fanatical, elusive enemy, which doesn't fight to
Marquess of Queensberry Rules but blows you up or stabs you in the back.
We have been too concerned about playing by
Marquess of Queensberry Rules. It is time to take our forces off the leash.
Which was why I smelt a rat - albeit a large pink one - when I read a recent newspaper report concerning the BBC's mildly bizarre programme, The Fight, which pits minor TV personalities against each other under
Marquess of Queensberry Rules, over three 90-second rounds, the price of these foolhardy people's humiliation being a pitiful sum going to help underprivileged children, I shouldn't wonder.
No way would John Wayne beat Victor McGlaglen under
Marquess of Queensberry rules - C, Ballycumber