Uilleam

Time to close that 'Club'; time to wind up the companies associated with it; time to grub up the pitch, parking, and circulation space, demolish the buildings, remove the debris and detritus, turnover the ground, and sow the cleared land with salt.

Cue: three days of 'Porteous - victim' in all organs of the Scottish media.

Smoke bombs!! Where the fuck is the thumbheid when he is needed?

This is not even mince, this is some kind of ground meat from the glue factory

Well, that was mince.

Campbell, ditto

Porteous taking Japanese lessons, I see

He's a debauched looking bastard, that Hibs' manager.

FOOTBALL | GRAEME SOUNESS Graeme Souness: I looked at Ray Kennedy and knew everything would be alright – he should be considered a great of the English game Liverpool legend pays tribute to his former team-mate and expresses sadness that the game didn’t do more to help him when he fought Parkinson’s in his later life Graeme Souness Tuesday November 30 2021, 7.00pm, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/graeme-souness-i-looked-at-ray-kennedy-and-knew-everything-would-be-alright-he-should-be-considered-a-great-of-the-english-game-789b6089r Ray Kennedy was one of the most underrated players I played with, a man that you looked at in the dressing room before a big game and instinctively knew you would be all right. The European Cup semi-final of 1981 is a great example — nobody gave us a prayer away to Bayern Munich in their stadium until Razor put us in front inside the final ten minutes. He was always a man for the big occasion. I remember watching him when I was still an apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur, scoring the winning goal against us at White Hart Lane to clinch the title for Arsenal in the last league game of the 1970-71 season when they went on to do the Double. I remember clearly thinking then, “I want to be him, a young player in the first team, winning things.” Ray loved his clothes and was always immaculate, a big, handsome man with that sallow skin he had. He was a striker then and Bill Shankly’s final signing for Liverpool in 1974, for a club record £200,000. It was a stroke of genius by Bob Paisley later to convert him into a goalscoring midfielder. I was the poor relation when it came to scoring beside Ray, Terry McDermott and Jimmy Case in that midfield, which was definitely the best in terms of goals that I played in at Liverpool. I was the odd man out by not getting into double figures. We had Jimmy on one side, Terry scoring close to 20 goals and Razor getting about 15. It wasn’t just about Kenny Dalglish and Dave Johnson up front. They also all did the hard yards the other way to support the defence. When we won the title in my first full season at the club we conceded just 16 goals in 42 league games and only four of them at Anfield. Ray wasn’t brilliant at anything, but he was very good at everything. He never gave the ball away, was a threat on the far post, and he had a silky touch and intelligence. People don’t regard him as one, but we have to talk about him as a great of the English game. After all these years, I still can’t tell you if he was naturally right or left-footed because he was so good with both. Ray made bad balls into good balls. If your head was down and you dropped it somewhere into the area of the far post on the left-hand side, he’d make your dodgy pass look like a really good one because of his anticipation, his timing, his power, his bravery and his determination to go and make that ball look good. When you talk about people scoring goals on the far post, he epitomised that because of his physique and football brain. Ray and Jimmy were incredibly close, through thick and thin. Ray was the senior member of that partnership and Jimmy was his partner in crime. Ray had been around the block and Jimmy was his apprentice, but he loved Ray and learned quickly from a good teacher. Ray had a dry sense of humour and nobody was keen to take him on in the banter stakes. It wasn’t just that he could cut you dead with a one-liner, he also had a serious, forbidding side to him and people were wary of that because he was a big powerful man with a real physical presence about him. I’d have loved to have him in my teams when I later became a manager. When I went to Newcastle United, I saw more of him and it saddened me to see how Parkinson’s had robbed him of his quality of life. The PFA should have done much more for him than it did because it made him a shadow of the man I played with. My great sadness is that he lost half his life to that awful condition — after having achieved so much before it affected him.

Are Kyogo's theatrics jist no' Noh, know, with hissel' as Principal Boy, or the shite, as we say in Osaka?

Nuffink for nuffink here, And precious little for sixpence. But I feel lucky, so if you would be so kind.........

'Megged. Maybe you should get out a bit more; under appropriate supervision.

In all seven official vernacular languages? Impressive.

Well, it is now.

Sakala is Zambian for 'Salmon'. You're welcome.

We were walking a tightrope.....now we are walking the catwalk

Fashionably late with substitutes....

I think that Livingston has dragged Rangers down to its level.

They're lucky that they have not been booked for that

What's Dutch for "Concentrate, you bastards, concentrate"?

If you can't disallow the goal, book the scorer.

Lovely set up; lovely finish. Keep them coming, Rangers.

This selection does not fill me with confidence.

After losing on penalties to Germany at Euro 96, a distraught Paul Gascoigne returned to England’s base, unsure of his next move. “I went into the kitchen and found a monster carton of ketchup, which I emptied all over Robbie Fowler,” he writes in his autobiography. “Then I ran to my room and had a good cry.”

Here is Dornan in his pomp: A man who displays, overtly, support for a muderous, sectarian, illegal, terrorist organisation, is thrown into fear and perturbation, by a tweet which was not even addressed to him. Go figure. What does this cretin offer to the people of Cathcart? Beyond vile bigotry and hatred, that is..... Former soldier fined for sending menacing tweet about James Dornan MSP Gordon Currie Tuesday November 23 2021, 12.01am, The Times James Dornan told the trial he had been concerned by the language and phraseology in the tweet https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/former-soldier-fined-for-sending-menacing-tweet-about-james-dornan-msp-qnq9hsqcm A former soldier has been found guilty of sending a menacing tweet suggesting that James Dornan, the controversial MSP, should be assassinated. Andrew Brews, who served in Northern Ireland, said Dornan was “another dirty little Nationalist rat” who “deserves one behind the ear”. Brews, a private residential landlord, admitted the phrase was one used during the Troubles to refer to a method of assassination. He said he had posted the message on a Twitter thread after seeing a picture of the MSP posing in front of a flag linked to a proscribed terrorist organisation. Brews said the post had been a “knee-jerk reaction” to seeing a taxpayer-funded politician smiling in front of an Irish Republican Army flag. Dornan, who was sent the tweet by supporters, told the trial he had been particularly concerned by the language and phraseology. Brews had written: “As I have told him, if he thinks standing posing and smiling in front of a flag belonging to a Republican proscribed organisation isn’t sectarian then he’s deluded. Just another dirty little Nationalist rat, deserves one behind the ear.” Sheriff Alison Michie told Dundee Sheriff Court: “Mr Dornan said he receives tweets like this, but nothing as concerning as this particular tweet. “He was clear what he took it to mean and perceived that to be a threat and something that could encourage others. The accused has indicated it is an old military saying and conceded he considers it to mean shooting somebody. “I do consider the tweet does meet the criminal standard and is menacing in character. I accept it was a knee-jerk reaction. The political background is not a consideration for the court.” She told Brews: “You have accepted from the outset that you sent the tweet in question and that it was placed on a public forum where anyone could see it. “You have indicated it was simply a throwaway remark to some extent. I am sure you can appreciate the degree of anxiety and concern such remarks cause.” Brews, 59, from Leuchars, Fife, was found guilty of sending messages to Dornan on 26 February, 2019, that were grossly offensive, or indecent, obscene or of menacing character in that it suggested he be shot. Gavin Burton, the fiscal depute, said: “The evidence of Mr Dornan was that he saw the tweet and he expressed concern about his staff and his family. “The evidence of Dornan was that he was involved in combatting sectarianism in Scottish society and he described the comment of ‘one behind the ear’ as being an assassination-type method used in Northern Ireland.” Brews said: “If I was believed to be a serious threat to anybody why did it take the police eight months to come and charge me? The whole thing was around Mr Dornan’s perceived sectarianism. “Seeing that picture made me very angry that someone in the pay of the public was clearly supporting a terrorist organisation that has killed members of that public. “I am an ex-soldier. I have been troubled by my past experiences, especially in Northern Ireland. I have been on medication for 30 years and undergone counselling — all to do with incidents I took part in. “I have no interest in Rangers or Celtic. His supporters simply cherry-picked the comment and highlighted it to him. The Pope could have read it, the Queen could have read it. “It was not sent to him. It was about him because the picture was about him. I don’t believe Mr Dornan is trying to combat sectarianism in Scotland. “Mr Dornan sees himself as a tough Glasgow hard man who is affected by nothing. All of a sudden he is affected by this message that wasn’t even sent to him. “The SNP have a strongly anti-Unionist agenda and I strongly believe that is what this whole case is about. It is a chance for him to get at someone he considers anti-SNP.” Sheriff Michie heard that Brews had no previous convictions and had stopped using Twitter. She fined him £400. Outside court, Brews described the prosecution as “a stitch-up” and said he was considering an appeal. James Dornan is the SNP MSP for Glasgow Cathcart and has been involved in several controversies related to the sectarian divide in Scotland.