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It's right that we don't accept failure easily but most of us should have enough experience to know the game we're in is called football, not "winning". Sometimes we will lose and the occasional failures are just seasoning for future successes. The procession of last season was never going to be repeated and it's likely to be well after Xmas before anything becomes clear about this title race. Patience and composure is the order of the day.

Missing a yard of pace never stopped really great players in the past and it's unlikely to hamper Iannis Hagi either.

The great debate just now about what player is out of form etc etc , we as fans tend to go on game by game-basis when rating players , apart from that pair of arseholes I had to sit beside last night who gave every player it right from the first whistle , where as managers and coaches tend to look at the bigger picture and how things tend to even themselves out over the course of a season . we don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes or in training, we either trust our management team or we don’t , some fans seem to have reached def con 12 already .

I get you but that's part of the reason I'm losing interest in football. Souness, John Brown and Ian Ferguson wouldn't last five minutes nowadays. Football was too vicious before I was born but it's far too soft nowadays. Diving around like a fanny (cheating) is fine but grab someone by the scruff of the neck and you're off. Lundstram got sent off because of his dithering. Don't lose the ball and there's no need to clip the lad from behind.

They should be stripped of every single trophy they got if a child was sexually molested that season .

Or were they complicit?

Tom treads a fine line in objectivity and, regularly falls the wrong side. Last year, DUP MP, Sammy Wilson appeared on Sportsound to explain his reasoning for laying down an Early Day Motion reference Rangers. As Richard Gordon completed the questioning, a pent up Tom demanded, "why is he on the show"? Compare and contrast with Tom's behaviour three years past. His home county, Limerick had made the All Ireland GAA Hurling Finals for the first time in almost half a century. Tom returned home to see his club win. Limerick play in green and white hoops. A breathless Tom appeared live on BBC Radio Scotland lionising his home town heroes, a triumph of the blarney. At the same time, those players were featuring on the front pages of Irish newspapers because they chose to celebrate the trophy by belting out a rendition of 'Sean South of Garryowen'. Sean South was from Garryowen, a district of Limerick. He was a member of an IRA column that crossed the border into Fermanagh on New Year's Day 1957. They attacked a RUC station, opening fire without warning. The column was fought off, two members of the IRA were fatally wounded, including South. The retreat led to a barn where a final shoot-out occurred and, a young RC RUC Constable, John Scalley was killed. The song was penned within a week of the proclaimed patriot's death. It was said the alacrity was necessary because of the failure of the raid and to cover up South's rabid anti-semitic views. We call that seizing the narrative these days. Sean South wrote numerous letters to the Limerick Leader(owned by Tom English's family) expressing his support for Fascism and conservative catholicism. He founded the Limerick branch of, 'Maria Duce'. He was a member of an Realt - Irish speaking chapter of the Legion of Mary and Sinn Fein. Tom totally ignored this awkward and unhelpful situation, although he did say, "I am not aware the GAA has received any complaints".

Most blokes from RoI have little interest in that lot. It's usually Liverpool or Man Utd if they're into football. I suspect Tom's yahoo proclivities have been embedded by his colleagues at PQ CSC.

I remember Frankie had some engagement with Tom during the RST days. I think Tom lived in the Linlithgow area then and, was writing for the Hootsmon. He purported to be a Jambo in those days but those that knew him said it was a necessary beard. Tom English is a Yahoo.