Scott7

Well, you see, it’s kind of like this. For the jessies who play and commentate on “footie” jersey pulling is just fine but a good dunt with the shou’der is horrific brutality, the sort of thing Caligula had a season ticket for. This abominable practice, endemic on the Continent, was comparatively rare here until imported from Italia 90. Young people hearing me droning on about it tell me gently “but it’s a man’s game”. It used to be.

Edinburgh’s a toffs’ town. I think it’s what they say in Morningside as in “Shell Ay poor oot more tea, Dephne?” In the current context it’s pouring out money as a happy couple leaves the Kirk after tying the knot thereby leading to the scramble. The practice features frequently in Oor Wullie and The Broons. Never heard it called a poor oot, not even in the years when I dwelled in Edinburgh’s high glamour south, ken?

A weekend of ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night like my forecasts this season so nuts to that and the following will be right. Most of the teams are in disguise to avoid embarrassment. Leicester 2-2 Gunners Clarets 2-1 Bees Scousers 3-0 Seagulls City 3-1 Palace Mags 0-3 Pensioners Wasps 0-0 So’ton ( Relegate them both) Hotspur 1-2 (the start of Ole’s customary rise from the ashes) Canaries 1-2 Leeds Villa 1-2 ‘ammers Wolves 2-2 Toffees

That Portuguese writer chap was a good judge.

FF reported the death of Jimmy Millar Number 9 this morning. Six pages later and about twenty minutes ago the OP is confirmed as mistaken. Some small relief.

Black ribbons hanging outside the Cabar Feidh pub in Elgin. Never seen that before.

I urge erudite posters on here never to let nbm away with the nonsense which is a large proportion of their output. Keep it simple when you write to them. Keep it factual. Above all keep it unemotional. Many a sound argument is obscured by outrage.

Strange that on the same day, Benitez and Solskjaer should deploy the same tactic of your own centre backs marking and even tackling each other.

You’ll be raging the ref, compo.

Solskjaer responding with a terrific burst of speed to put himself several lengths back in front. 0-4 at Old Trafford.

Me neither.

Just inside his own half, Davis short side pass to somebody, somebody passes back to Davis in a worse position than when he made the initial pass, Davis, hurriedly back to Goldson on the wrong foot, defence in retreat. This isn’t going to end well.

Chelsea’s last three goals including the o.g. and the penalty were offside.

Rafa coming up on the inside to lead Arteta and Solskjaer in the Managerial Goodbye Stakes?

Spiers, the thinking man’s Ian Archer. Or is it the other way round? Or are both the idiot’s idiot? “Lenny looks after you. He throws you in at the deep end.” I’ll take time to work that one out.

Is that all?

Brentford the new Bournemouth. Here today, gone in a couple of seasons. They’re playing well, though. Read on for their fate this weekend. Arsenal (World Famous) 0-0 Villa (Mighty in History) Chelsea 4-0 Norwich Palace 2-0 New Sheiks United Toffees 2-0 Watford Leeds 1-2 Wolves So’ton 2-0 Burnley BHA 1-3 City Brentford 1-2 Leicester Hammers 2-2 ‘Spurs United 0-0 Liverpool

Well done, Rangers. A fear-free last quarter hour for the first time in ages. Brush up on clearances, throw-ins and shooting for next time.

Legend!

No need. He knew all the Presbyterians had left to go to their work.

At least Hagi has a go. He’s compelled ‘keepers to make some decent saves.

Showing your age, old bean. Good name on his displays so far. Doesn’t look like a player. Now watch him rise to great heights. Nothing like a condemnation from me to see a career take off.

Correct. The stage 2 man could be Gerrard if his current players don’t let him down and Liverpool don’t intervene but more likely someone from the managerial stratosphere. Could Potter from the high flying Seagulls fill both roles?

I renewed my TV Receiver Licence under protest. Several protests, actually, one of which was the BBC Scotland fiasco with regard to Rangers. Here is what BBC Audience Services say. Rangers continue to operate an exceptional ban on one of our journalists which severely restricts our ability to report freely from Ibrox. We hope you’ll understand that, in order to maintain public trust in the impartiality and independence of our reporting, it is the BBC’s responsibility to determine who should report, on its behalf, on any particular story or organisation. It would be inappropriate for us to allow any other body or organisation to pick and choose which BBC reporters should or should or should not provide our news reports. We have offered to return to Ibrox to provide match commentaries and interviews etc. while we try to find a permanent solution to the overall dispute, but Rangers have said this is unacceptable. We continue to speak to the Club as we seek to find a mutually agreeable solution to the current impasse. I’m conflicted here. While I understand that others have different needs from the Broadcaster I personally don’t want any Sportscene/Sound people back at Ibrox because they will just carry on where they left off but it’s the principle that matters. I’ll be answering the letter to see if I can persuade them to reply more substantively and more accurately. (What “ban”?) In addition, they are silent on the Manchester United/Dundee United scenarios on which I invited comparison. One of the non Rangers matters I raised was the futility of the BBC Scotland Channel. They tell me it’s the most watched digital channel between 7pm and midnight. After BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV/STV, and Channels 4 and 5. What an achievement. I wonder who came sixth. ALBA?

This is brilliant stuff. There’s a book in it, surely. A good Rangers team. One tradesman, one mercurial talent and the rest high level performers. The Portuguese journo got it right about Greig. The only D’ited players I remember are McAlpine, of course, and Rolland.