Scott7

Oh yes you,can. If you’re referring to Arsenal’s third the fourth has jam on it. Martinez has a nightmare five minutes.

Depends a bit on who’s getting the money. Arsenal, United - fine. City, Newcastle- tut, tut,

Have we got any tough guys, dB?

If a team puts the ball out of play, for whatever reason, that team loses possession and the other team can do what it likes with the ball. Resume play on that basis. You certainly can’t expect to get it back because your own chap was injured. If you put it out because the other fellow was hurt, return of the ball is within the gift of his teammates so don’t expect anything. If the opposing team decides to give the ball back, do it by means of a foul throw. Anything else leaves room for doubt. Was Beale right or wrong? In the Corinthian league he was right. In this league he was wrong. Any media hysteria would have died down in a fortnight. I get the impression that the media line is Tillmann is the villain with some grudged acknowledgement of Beale’s remedial measures. I don’t study media reports so it could be a wrong impression.

There were a few seasons when a cup-tie at Ibrox was a rarity. We are having some luck at a time when we most need it.

Harold Davis even less so but his mere presence would have been enough to deter the Jags from over-reacting to the goal.

No tie is easy for this Rangers side but on paper, I can’t recall an easier path towards the final. If Hearts can manage to torpedo celtic, I’d be minded to award them the trophy on the spot.

They are utter dross, aren’t they?

Did you not really mean method of delivery rather than results? In which case, I agree.

How would you improve the results? Convert the celtic draw to a win?

I wonder why two, maybe three Jags weren’t red carded for the assault on Tillman. Maybe in the interests of sportsmanship etc. McCall should have subbed one of them without actually putting the sub on.

People told me Cantwell and Raskin would sort out this sort of nonsense. Best wait the final whistle before judgement in case both get hat-tricks.

I’m sure Southampton have a feeder club somewhere. Usually they take players but I suppose a manager is a possibility. Leeds or So’ton? Where does the ambitious manager go? There’s a safety option there but while Southampton never will, Leeds might - one day. Win something, I mean.

Shouted RED CARD to a ref. Speaks out against deviancy.

You’re in trouble big time if the Mods see that. Or perhaps not.

Took the breath away, didn’t it? Talking of which, Kai 1966.

None.

The good: 3-1 v Dundee 1964 The bad: 2-3 v Hibs 2016 The ugly: 0-4 v celtic 1969 These are all finals. Meanwhile, in other rounds: The unbelievable: 0-1 v Hamilton 1987 The impossible: 0-1 v Berwick 1967 The aw naw: 0-6 v Aberdeen (I wasn’t there but the radio commentary is seared into the memory banks)

Is he not AC?

I laughed but on reflection, they probably will. There must be a special relationship with Catalonia, surely, similar to the one with Royal Madrid.

The good old effy cup continues to entertain. Wrexham performed sturdily against Sheffield United in the replay at Bramall Lane. Blades played really good passing football but couldn’t finish until taking a lead in the second half which Wrexham equalised with a penalty. They got a second penalty which they missed and then lost two goals deep into extra time. Slightly weird to think that Don Bradman hit 140 on the ground for the Australians against Yorkshire.

I wouldn’t say I was attached to him but I didn’t want Eddie Rutherford to be transferred to Hearts.

Sportsound was broadcasting during the last two hours of a transfer window. Gordon was presenting and making a good job of it. In the last minutes he said something was coming in but he would have to check with the producer if he could announce it. He then said he had the producer’s approval and told the audience an offer had been made for Felip Sebo by Edinburgh Zoo. I speculate the “message” was planted by one of the production staff and endorsed by the producer rather than dreamed up by Gordon himself. @buster.posts sensibly above. We are all too quick to take offence. If Sebo’s teammates had said it to his face in jocular fashion or if supporters of any club had been saying it among themselves in derision, it would not matter one bit. But it was wrong to broadcast it. If they had said a scout from Rangers had been seen at the rhinoceros enclosure at the zoo, that would have been acceptable as a comment on the club’s style of play, a comment that listeners might or might not have agreed with. There was no need to single out for insult a young foreigner who unlike Gascoigne, for example, had hardly any profile other than not being very successful. Speaking about rhinos, can you imagine the demented press coverage Don Kitchenbrand would get?

Gordon was a very good broadcaster in his early years at Sportsound. He was an Aberdeen supporter. Fair enough. Born and brought up there, was he not? The notorious Sebo transfer incident was fed to him by a producer. Gordon said something to the effect that he would need to check with the producer before he read out the message and then that he had been given the go ahead. So, on the night he was by no means entirely to blame though he could have made his own decision not to read it. It was a disgraceful episode worthy of sackings. In their excitement the poisonous creatures thought they were insulting Rangers. In fact they were grossly insulting a young man plying his trade as best he could in a foreign country. Gordon and his programme went rapidly downhill after that.

Naw, I’ll wear the cap of shame. The conical one with a D on it.