Uilleam

I fear that we are buggered, now.

"Molotov" was a pseudonym derived from 'molot', the Russian for 'hammer'.

Our cause is just. The enemy shall be defeated. Victory will be ours. Apologies to Vyacheslav Molotov, but I do wish we had Der Hammer running out at the National Stadium today.

There is no doubt that a win @the National Stadium, and a win in the league match @Ibrox, would give this rather ill starred and uncomfortable season some meaning. Come on, Rangers, make my day. Twice. You can do it. You have nothing to fear, save fear itself.

Hibs now 3 - 2 down. Deflected shot wrong footed the keeper, but it may well have spared us the further embarrassing tedium of extra time.

Since Mcinnes, tactical master, made a masterly tactical substitution the Northern Shites have fallen to bits.

I blame Isaac Newton. When an opposition player goes down in rasellik's box, it's grave. When a sellik player goes down in the opposition's box, its gravity.

Any goalkeeper, Wes included, will have more confidence, and thus improve, and look and play better, if the defence before him is sound. The defence seems to have improved under Pedro C, not immeasurably, but discernibly, and Wes has, simultaneously, shown a like uplift in form. Next season will be more instructive, as we will be able to judge after personnel changes, and a full pre season's coaching of the team, presupposing he is not papped out of the door, of course.

Interesting that its mainstream mouthpiece confirms that fhilthfc is responsible for training, recruitment, and career development of match officials in Scotland. It's good to have that substantiated, publicly. Interesting also that Brenda is put forward as Compliance Officer for officials: comply with whatever is in the interests of rahoops, or face the consequences. The recent pronunciamentos are dog whistles -of somewhat low frequency, thus easily discernible- intended to remind everyone that rasellik remains in charge of Scottish football.

I thought it was Rossiter, too. Does he have a brother?

Strange as it may seem, Ronaldo is a native of Madeira.

A deceitful black japanned bastard, one might observe.

The dhildo, himself, is now roped in to heap pressure upon Sunday's referee, because Steven McLean "killed" "his" treble. I didn't realise that fhilthfootballclub ran a boys' choir.

I have more or less given up watching the CL. It has been no great loss. Still, I am pleased that the sanctimonious bastards of Barcelona bit the dust.

The 'Glasgow Cup' Final, U17s v Fhilth U17s, is live, from Firhill, on STV Glasgow, tonight, ko 7pm.

The 'Glasgow Cup' Final, U17s v Fhilth U17s, is live, from Firhill, on STV Glasgow, tonight, ko 7pm.

Wouldn't like to see you caught offside, old boy.......

The Germans got it down to a fine art later. Lothar Matthäus, @Ibrox, I recall, threw himself to the turf, as if poleaxed, when the nearest Gers' player, Ferguson, B., was at least a metre from him. The referee, of course, awarded a free kick against us. Loathsome Matthäus, thereafter for me.

The fhilth were scared of him, literally scared. 'Twas great to watch.

A good fellow, no doubt; intelligent pundit, and knowledgeable; often quite forthright, and opinionated, which background may not please the snowflakes of the dressing room. It seems a bit of a trial period for both sides. A big risk for the club, given his lack of hands-on experience. Interesting to see how he copes. It's another Scottish side, so, bluntly, I could care more.

An example to RU and the fitba'.

Rugby League seems to be able to undertake all the disciplinary stuff, pdq, and no messing about.

I have just realised that this is another "feelgood" story about Scottish fitba'. I am surprised that the guy in the weekend papers, brilliant writer, mind like a steel trap, ( Waddell?) missed it in his piece excoriating Rangers for some -any old- reason or another.

I could be tempted to suggest that the initial flurry of procuratorial activity was merely juridical smoke and mirrors, as the Crown Office & PF had not the ability, the interest, or the ambition to press matters to a conclusion, and has, thus, taken an option both easy for itself and pleasing to certain influential elements within our society and polity.

Maybe he has imported business practices from apartheid, and immediately post apartheid, South Africa. I don't know. I know that the Exciseman there very nearly had the breeks completely off him. Personally, I hate the whole 'We'll get away with it' approach to business; rarely is it premised on a coherent risk analysis; equally rarely is there a back up plan; and the approach is generally tactical, to deal with an immediate situation, rather than long, or even medium, term strategic, to say nothing of the fact that the difficulty in question could, perhaps, have been foreseen. For somebody who, I think, made his poke in insurance/re-insurance, he seems to have been somewhat cavalier in his assessment of the risk of taking on the takeover panel. (And I know how absurd the whole imposition of a 20p offer is.) There is, has been, a tendency to ascribe disingenuousness to some of DK's actions, activities, and declarations. It may be, however, that he actually is constrained by Law, by contract, or by family pressure to limit the financial exposure of the family trust(s), wherein lies the family gelt. Hence he may display a very reasonable, and explicable, reluctance to promote a faux takeover offer, and to hoover up as many 20p shares as shareholders are daft enough to sell him.