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Not the Palace. The other place across the road.

Silly bhoy, surely. They’ll laugh it off. No newspaper campaign. No questions at Holyrood. No tumbrels.

He’ll get cards galore. Double yellow in his first twenty minutes.

First half United absolute dross. Second half Chelsea timorous. Poor game.

Whaurs yer sporting integrity noo, eh Peter?

That sort of focus is never on the tims in the first place. The Marseillaise is inclusive. It threatens everybody. TBB at least confines the target.

Leckie and Lennon should know that provocation is not a defence, only mitigation but the mitigation diminishes by ten per cent for every ten yards run to confront the provocation.

Controversial. Edgy. What great journalism. A buffoon eulogises an idiot.

Oh well, that’s all right then.

Steady, cs. You’ve made your point well. I wouldn’t want to see you chopped. I’d miss the controversy.

Technically a penalty I suppose but not compared to the all-in wrestling that goes on at corners.

Any eleven from those fit and not suspended would trouble my confidence. As for the bench, apart from Docherty and Kelly, I hope none of them has to come on.

Not often you get four different posts in a row and every one of them accurate.

How absolutely splendid to see Cove remaining in the mis-named Highland League. They have a half decent name. Apart from that nothing good to be said about them.

Last bit sounds more like nightmare.

Watched twenty minutes of this. Feeble crowd. Brutal tackling. Neither side will improve the SPL.

Smith, Johnstone, Reilly, Turnbull and Ormond. The Cormack, Stanton, Brownlie team. Takes it down to just over the hundred.

Yep. It came yesterday. Should be another one the day after today.

Yep. I wrote it.

“Turn that on its head: do you reckon that Portugal has had no decent centre-halfs for the best part of a decade so that he was there at various international tournaments et al?” dB, ten years ago - five, three even- I was a better centre half than I am now. Alves was expected to organise the defence with a steely presence and put an end to the frequent loss of stupid goals. Has he done that?

I would happily play Alves. I would probably win.

My humble contribution about Alves from the Chile v Portugal thread last June: Posted June 28, 2017 “Saw twenty minutes. No tackles. Two headers out straight to opposition. One header missed - chance to Chile. One daft foul embracing opponent right in front of ref. Otherwise marking space. Konterman? Surely not again.” At least Bert was fit.

Great banter, that tweet. But it was sent during working hours by a minister of the soi disant Scottish government.I

See that Giroud? Just the kind of big, scoring centre forward that Arsenal need. Oh wait ...

Wa ha hey. Baggies soaring up the table. There’s boing in the Throstles yet. Will a miracle confound my pre-season prophecy?