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🎵 Woooaa hokey cokey cokey🎵 Is it ok to say that?

“1st incident - Motherwell player handballs it 2nd incident - Motherwell player pulls on Dessers shirt before flailing to the ground 3rd incident - Butland gets his face stamped on” 1. Accidental from other player’s deflection but don’t ask me what the law is. 2. Who gets whose shirt first? Looks to my aged eyes that Dessers is the instigator. Penalty. 3. Red card for the hurdler.

That was reminiscent of Aberdeen v Rangers. ‘Gers miss chance after chance then Ferguson scores with minutes to go.

Sunderland whacked 0-3 by Coventry. Storm of booing and mass exodus when the third went in.

Some sympathy for McNeil. He endures Jimmy Millar, lord of the leap, then along comes Jim Forrest, rocketing past him on the left, disappearing into the distance on the right. When Lawrence sacked Forrest he ruined Forrest’s career but he saved McNeil’s.

5’6” but he looked taller than that, more 5’8” but you can’t argue with stats. Could outleap McNeil no bother.

That’s a good one. When Rangers were signing Mikel Arteta the Spanish press were calling them Guardabosques. Försterei sounds much better.

A Christmas Broadcast from the King. (I don’t think his new backing group wii go far)

I speculate Easter. Not necessarily Easter 2024.

None like him.

European shop. Look at the price tag. Could be ROI I suppose.

You’re surelynot telling me the Sco’ish Fitbaw Press Corps isn’t on an intellectual par with the High Table at Magdalen?

Five minutes.

It is. I didn’t say it was Greek. I said it sounded like Greek. I was ten years in Edinburgh before I realised it was Pilton and not Piltdown.

The doddering old goats didn’t disclose the interesting bits. Probably still classified by the Air Ministry.

I doubt that. Greek rather than Latin was spoken in the Pilton in my day. At least that’s what it sounded like. I heard Bob Crampsey talk on radio about the ghost commentary. The match was at Easter Road. Other broadcasters doubted the Mount Florida sage but Alex Cameron confirmed it as true. The valiant commentator thwarting the Luftwaffe was Rex Kingsley.

Would Leeds ever finish a match with more than five or six on the park?

Most votes have been cast. The featured five are Sterling, Tavernier, Balogun, Lundstram and Sima. Remind me. What were we saying about them in September/October? A lesson for us all, myself foremost: do not rush to judgement. I wonder what we’ll be saying about them at the end of the month.

That header was Jimmy Millar style. Our other masters of the headed ball DJ and Hately would never have scored that - too tall. Millar could do the high jump stuff as well.

Good luck to Sunderland, with Michael Beale.

No, you’re right but it was before my time and maybe yours too, probably pre-war. My earliest memories are Raymond “up go he heads” Glendenning and Peter “c’mon the Rangers” Thomson. They nor their successors needed zones. They just told you what was happening and whereabout. Alistair Alexander and David Begg were the last proper commentators.

bbc used to do this for major vents. You could get the tv commentary, the radio commentary, crowd sound only (the best) or mute.

Thanks. Great without the babble. I see trackside advertising for a forthcoming Scottish Cup-tie. The home club must be worrying about ticket sales. It’ll be ok. Buckie will take plenty with them.

The Cup won and having been assigned to a boring task, I switched on to hear how they were all taking it. Remarkably well. The only participants I knew were Wullie Miller and Tom English. The verdict - a poor first half, better second and Rangers deserved to win it. Miller said this isn’t a great Rangers team (no arguments there) but they had more than one chance and Aberdeen offered nothing until the last ten minutes. when English arrived the discussion changed to whether his team are still favourites for the title. He thought they probably are because they can afford better reinforcements in January. I don’t know what the match commentary was like. I never listen to that. The closing discussions were calm and quite reasonable. Not the excited pandemonium that would have accompanied a Rangers defeat but not dour and grudging either.

The medals ceremony at Hampden was a glittering spectacle presided over by absolutely galactic celebs. Who was the geezer who handed over the cup with a face like thunder and then turned on his heel and walked away?